Steinberg Depersonalization Test

[Gamereign555]

48 for me.. no. I don’t want this.
47 I think on the other one.
I’m sad I want to cry. I am

All this talking to myself. It’s gotten worse and lots of anger. I am always hiding things from myself. I don’t feel myself behind me very often though. I have only had several episodes of DP and DR ever. I Didn’t realize I was spacing out so much either I thought it was normal. Mostly. How the hell do I solve this? My earliest trauma was when I was 4 and wouldn’t talk.

 

[ACD67]

How do normal people function without a running commentary in their head? I need to talk to some bo...

Not funny but to me it is in a way because this is just too real. I don't have a clue what it's like for "normal" people but oh how I wish I did.

 

[Multitudes]

I scored 59.
Food for thought.

Many of the questions were tricky to answer as I have little experience of normality for comparison.
For instance, "I have felt that I was living in a dream" - until the recent cessation of abuse my dreams were the most real aspect of my existence.. people liked me there, smiled, hugged.
I waited through this waking world to return to that good place.

 

[Gamereign555]

I know what you mean… I had a hard time with trying to understand what normal was supposed to be.
And so I had a hard time with the test as well.

It’s sort of like my anxiety and my history of it. I went my entire life without properly feeling, internalizing, expressing managing stress and anxiety. Because of that I never had somatic symptoms of it that I understood as abnormal or affecting me.

It wasn’t until I was 30 years old following yet another traumatic experience that I started to actually feel anxiety physically. This made managing the symptoms, especially during panic attacks extremely difficult for me for a long time.

A weird way I feel the same about my dissociative tendencies.

After doing quite a bit of research on the Internet, I have noticed that most people experience dissociative tendencies but when they explained it it seems a lot more subtle. Perhaps in us the effects simply magnified and really are quite noticeable.

I believe everybody has the framework for this they just can’t hear it, can’t see it. In that sense it is out of reach for them.
There is so much we don’t know about thought and personality, but so much that we do too.

Many parts of the brain converge to form these phenomena, so it must be in all of us. The more it is used the more we become aware of it. But perhaps there is a “struck match” that starts it at all after all.

 

[void]

Food for thought.

That's GREAT!

 

[Dae Dae]

56, assumed that tho..

 

[DarkOne35]

I got a 47.... This is a symptom of PTSD

 

[Gs172003]

37.

I actually expected it to tell me I was fine.

 

[Abstract]

It was 56 and now it is 37.

 

[reallydown]

49...Sigh...still along way to go

 

[flowerapple]

I got 51. I dint even realize i had that as a problem but it says severe.

 

[Overcoming]

46