"super powers" by dissociation

[Sideways]

Hehehe, I have DID. So, yep, the “did I really do that?” thing used to be my normal.

I can confidently say that every single piece of fluroescent clothing in my wardrobe? I bought while I was dissociated. One of my parts apparently seems to think fluro is a great idea!

One of my parts speaks Indonesian. Hella cool!

Mostly DID sucks, so I’m with you on getting a laugh out of it when you can. I’m totally down with teleporting myself away from stressful events. (Was at a therapy session, somehow I’ve ended up on the beach...????!!).

 

[TruthSeeker]

I pay bills when dissociated. And then forget and then panic, then check and realize oh, already done.

In a way, superpower. Mostly, panic-time. I'd rather, any day, just know what I have done.

I pay bills, and never in a systematic way. Fear of bill collectors has me paying them so well, and not recalling I did, that I'm sent a check for overpayment by the company. This has probably happened 8 times in the last 2 years. Silly me....and I hate billpaying!

 

[HealingInProcess]

Do your parts hide things from you like information? I think some of my parts are doing this.

 

[Ronin]

Do your parts hide things from you like information?

Isn’t that something they would do by definition of being parts?

I mean the missing chunks of info / life are even part of the basis for the whole diagnosis.

 

[HealingInProcess]

Isn’t that something they would do by definition of being parts?

I mean the missing chunks of info / life are even part of the basis for the whole diagnosis.

Yeah I'm worried I'm like living a whole life I don't even know about lol. I've heard of some really weird things that I would have never thought were possible like a guy thought his wife was a telephone for like 30 years. I mean how did that resolve itself? One day his telephone transformed into his wife? After 30 years? That's major dissociation.

 

[Sideways]

a guy thought his wife was a telephone for like 30 years.

That sounds more like delusion or psychosis than dissociation.

 

[Ronin]

Yeah I'm worried I'm like living a whole life I don't even know about lol.

I wouldn't be. :)

Things leak through. Eventually. In some way.
& How other people react to you is fairly good tell.

 

[HealingInProcess]

I wouldn't be. :)

Things leak through. Eventually. In some way.
& How other people react to you is fairly good tell.

Yes sometimes people mention things and I don't know what they're talking about and some people say hi to me and I have no idea who they are.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Yeah I'm worried I'm like living a whole life I don't even know about lol. I've heard of some really weird things that I would have never thought were possible like a guy thought his wife was a telephone for like 30 years. I mean how did that resolve itself? One day his telephone transformed into his wife? After 30 years? That's major dissociation.

That doesn't sound like dissociation. Are these things you heard of in your head or someone elses?

 

[Sideways]

some people say hi to me and I have no idea who they are.

This one happens to me a lot, especially when I’m stressed I don’t even need to switch to not recognise people. It improves when my stress levels come down, but when I’m being introduced to someone I want to remember? I make sure I’m grounded.

 

[HealingInProcess]

That doesn't sound like dissociation. Are these things you heard of in your head or someone elses?

It's from a book by Oliver Sacks (deceased neuro guy) called The Man Who Thought His Wife Was a Hat. So yeah it was a that not a phone but I don't think people are inanimate objects thank God.

 

[blackemerald1]

I mean how did that resolve itself?

She didn't like the ring??

:sorry: