So, I probably sound like a moron to most of you, but this is all very new to me.
As a brief introduction, my trauma occurred in childhood and adolescence, and yet I've always been a bright girl.
I've been diagnosed with adult ADD (distractibility, rather than hyperactivity) and for many of the things you guys are calling disassociation. Yikes.
An example- when I'm in a lecture and get oh, slightly distracted for whatever reason, I tune out and only realize (a lengthy time later) that I have been completely absent and have no clue what the hell is being discussed. Or I can begin drawing whilst someone's going on, and just go somewhere else in my mind, not thinking at all.. and only resurface later to realize I've missed the whole lecture or whatever someone's said to me.
Another reason for my diagnosis is that sometimes when I'm trying to speak, it's as of multiple sentences converge into one, and the entire thing comes out all jumbled up, and makes no sense at all. This is particularly embarrassing, it's as if my brain short-circuits or speeds up to where I try to get more out at once than is possible.
Has anyone had any experience with disassociation and ADD? Maybe the combination of the two, or how might one distinguish between them? I could frequently disassociate, even out of my body at times, when I was younger...I thought I was either crazy or slightly psychic, something off.. But I had no idea that's what was happening.
This might even be what has happened several times while I've been driving home and completely lost track of the entire drive.. I'd somehow arrived at my destination without any memory of the latter half of the drive.. What the hell.
Now that I think about it, I believe that's also what contributed to many negative situations I've found myself in... Instead of jumping up and screaming "this isn't right!" I would just disassociate and sort of wait for it all to be over and done with... ugh, shivers*
How the heck are you supposed to stop this from happening?
As a brief introduction, my trauma occurred in childhood and adolescence, and yet I've always been a bright girl.
I've been diagnosed with adult ADD (distractibility, rather than hyperactivity) and for many of the things you guys are calling disassociation. Yikes.
An example- when I'm in a lecture and get oh, slightly distracted for whatever reason, I tune out and only realize (a lengthy time later) that I have been completely absent and have no clue what the hell is being discussed. Or I can begin drawing whilst someone's going on, and just go somewhere else in my mind, not thinking at all.. and only resurface later to realize I've missed the whole lecture or whatever someone's said to me.
Another reason for my diagnosis is that sometimes when I'm trying to speak, it's as of multiple sentences converge into one, and the entire thing comes out all jumbled up, and makes no sense at all. This is particularly embarrassing, it's as if my brain short-circuits or speeds up to where I try to get more out at once than is possible.
Has anyone had any experience with disassociation and ADD? Maybe the combination of the two, or how might one distinguish between them? I could frequently disassociate, even out of my body at times, when I was younger...I thought I was either crazy or slightly psychic, something off.. But I had no idea that's what was happening.
This might even be what has happened several times while I've been driving home and completely lost track of the entire drive.. I'd somehow arrived at my destination without any memory of the latter half of the drive.. What the hell.
Now that I think about it, I believe that's also what contributed to many negative situations I've found myself in... Instead of jumping up and screaming "this isn't right!" I would just disassociate and sort of wait for it all to be over and done with... ugh, shivers*
How the heck are you supposed to stop this from happening?
