Losing Hours While Completely Inactive?

[screen-name]

I can go to do something and realize an hour or more had passed without me knowing. The thing is, I don't appear to have moved the while time. I have no memory of the time.

It can happen at my desk or any where I'm alone (I work from home).

I assume this is dissacociation but does anyone else do this? It's new for me. I've told my therapist and I have grounding techniques but I don't realize it's happening till it's over.

 

[PTSDfree]

Yep!!!

 

[screen-name]

That's good to know. Google was not helpful lol

 

[Friday]

Yup.

Disassociation / zoning out is something I do all the time.

Correction... I tend to lose around 5 hours a day at present to disassociation & flashbacks & other symptoms. Which is about half of what I was losing last year. So all the time isn't exactly accurate. But it's still a daily thing, most days, right now.

 

[screen-name]

I was just concerned because I don't think i move at all. Also, I pick up like nothing happened. If I don't notice a clock, then I don't know

For example, I'm typing and think it's normal. Really, I've typed 3 sentences in the last hour or so.

 

[Friday]

If it's a new thing for you, losing time can also be a medication side effect (aka any new meds in the past couple months?), or be a certain kind of seizure (absent minded seizures), so it's always worth getting medical causes ruled out!

For me, though, it's just part of what happens when I'm doing badly.

 

[screen-name]

I'm not on meds except Xanax for random panic attacks. The doctor that gave me that script won't let me keep it without a neurological eval. So, I do have one of those soon.

 

[trying2movefwd]

Yes, i do that, but it's an old now unhealthy coping mechanism. Not a new thing.

 

[aria]

YES!!! I have no idea if I've lost time, it doesn't feel like I've dissociated and I don't move from where I'm sitting I don't think. I can be sitting on laptop or watching tv and next thing I know, I think 1 hours has passed but actually 2,3,4 hours have gone. I don't know if this is normal... time does seem to go faster for everyone when on internet so maybe it's just that? OR I've dissociated and I have no idea.... very confusing.

 

[TinkerG]

Yes, I think I do this almost every day... Never even thought about til now, always thought it was just something I do... Guess it's another thing to add to my list to tell a therapist when I get one! :O_o:

 

[screen-name]

YES!!! I have no idea if I've lost time, it doesn't feel like I've dissociated and I don't move from where...

I am not always on the computer. I have decided to set an alarm for every hour during the day and see if I can tell if/when it's happening.

 

[chant2012]

I never thought I lost time but do apparently - as shown by evidence of things I've said to other people or things they've said to me that I have absolutely no memory of.

But the dissociation I'm referring to right now is that I'm just so disconnected from everything. I don't connect my sensations in my body as mine. I have bouts of incontinence because I don't even connect that I have to go to the bathroom. I don't feel the feelings or sensations or impulses.

I'll go days and not eat (haven't done that in a while, but I will go about 12 - 24 hours usually these days) as I don't realize I have to eat. It's like the time goes by and I'm just confused like, "Did 18 hours go by since I last ate? What did I eat? Oh a couple crackers."

Also, a lot of times I will feel sensations but not be able to "place" them. I can't identify what I'm feeling.

It's like hours go by and I don't realize it. I forget? I don't notice the passage of time in association with my body or its needs or wants. Time has always been very tricky for me, making time management and planning difficult.

And connecting to myself internally? Forget about it! I'm locked out most times!!! But yet I still space off and am in my own world constantly, spacing off and just day dreaming. In another world in my head, just doing whatever. I don't know lol. Yet I am still functioning outside when viewed by other people (usually). But there are times I'll just sit there blank and am just gone. Not moving or doing anything for long periods of time. I'm semi-aware but I'm just extremely spacey. I can look at the clock and be shocked to see its 8pm at night. How did all that time slip by?

It's frustrating.