Partial Dissociation - Can You Help Me Understand It Better!

[GWhizz]

I was just about to ask a similar question so thank you for this thread.

It happened to me the other day at the end of my therapy session. I'd disclosed some information and my T asked me if I'd felt alone. I just felt so exposed and wanted to block her out.. She moved onto something else to finish up and I honestly can't remember a thing she said. I was totally in my own world in my child's brain, yet I continued to try to act as though I knew what she was talking about. So confusing.

I think @pixel your analogy makes so much sense of it.

 

[Me Myself and I]

Remember that dissociation is on a continuum, a spectrum.

I love the car's example, it pretty much sums dissociation in all its various forms. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

 

[pixel]

I hope @Me Myself and I that it offers some clarity for you.

you are not alone in this :)

 

[Me Myself and I]

How do you cope during dissociation without amnesia?

You basically feel like an outsider, as in; you do witness everything but can do nothing about it. Therefore I just wait for that moment to pass and then later, considering I remember all of what has occurred, I try to reprocess it and try to every time learn to accept it better.

I hope that answers your question Shankara. :)

 

[Me Myself and I]

That sounds like possibly being being co-conscious with fragmented personality parts

I will most certainly look it up. thank you.