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[Tiger]

:inpain:My head has been so full of stuff recently, I haven't been able to focus on anything useful!! I have been attending a social group that is for people with all sorts of mental health issues, but I have felt so withdrawn from everyone there and the activities that they do! I feel like I'm watching it all through a TV screen! I can hear what's happening around me, but I don't feel as if I can take part in any of it!! I wish my life was a film on the television because then I could just switch it off!! Right now I don't feel able to participate in anything!! Nothing feels real!! It's as if I am observing other people, but they don't see me Does anyone understand what's happening??:sorry:

 

[SeanCharles]

It does sound as if you are dissociating. The question is why? obviously whatever this group is doing seems to be causing you discomfort and so, your mind is protecting you. That's at least what I am reading here... Anyone else want to try and help here?

 

[KwanYingirl]

I get that way at AA meetings and in a group therapy setting as well as an intensive out patient program for suicidal people (a real mix of folks).
I know I'm dissociating due to the stress of listening to other peoples history or just being too sensitive to all the energies being emitted around me. I don't participate when I'm not in control of myself. Too much all at once. Sorry you're feeling that way. It is strange.

 

[Tiger]

It's not the group! It's me! There's something going on with me??

 

[ReneeBaz]

wow, you feel exactly like I do I just couldn't put it to words like that.

 

[Tiger]

:hug:

 

[KwanYingirl]

It may be that a group setting isn't a useful environment for you. That doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. We all express ourselves in different ways. There are support groups, but there's also music therapy, art therapy, sports, writing, one on one therapy. When you were feeling more in the here and now, were you going to a therapist? I've probably gone to over a thousand AA meetings and I never told my story. Workbooks and I don't get along either.

 

[Tiger]

I really enjoy this group usually, but I have had so much stuff going on I seemed to have become very introverted and nervous around people!! I have never seen a therapist since the NSPCC one I saw when I first went into care!! I have tried to see one, but as yet have not been successful!! I did attend a DBT course for a short while, but found it very unhelpful and difficult to get along with!!

 

[shimmerz]

check out depersonalization and derealization. Sounds more like the former but you may find that either one resonates with you.

 

[Tiger]

Thanks for these, I will check them out!!! I appreciate it!

 

[shimmerz]

It helps to understand what one is up against. And BTW, I fought both of these and won. So.....get one with it. :cool: Freudian slip. lol Get ON with it. We've already been one with it - wasn't much fun.