When You Dissociate, Where Do You Go?

[PTSDbegone]

I am getting really tired of therapist's asking me where I go when I dissociate. I have no idea. I am not aware of anything at that moment. I just say I don't know, but my therapist disagrees. It's so frustrating, and annoying.

 

[Captain Proton]

The floor beneath my being opens up and I slide down a slippery slide into a vast empty space with nothing at all to hold onto. The slide itself is slippery and with each attempt to climb back up to consciousness of the world, I lose my grip the harder I try. My voice suddenly abandons words; words suddenly abandon thoughts; thought suddenly abandons me. Reason and thought become some distant, un-graspable echo and I am left adrift in an ocean of nothingness... just miles and miles of empty sky.

Some people use drugs to induce dissociation. For me, dissociation happens all on its own. It's like a rug being pulled out from under my brain at the most inopportune time.

 

[madmoankidder]

I have dissasociated throughout my whole life. In fact, a month ago, I took a cab to the home I used to live in for seven years and thought I still lived there. Usually, it's more like spacing out but had a really bad episode that was hard to describe. It was almost like I was hearing patters of sound, very weird and scary. Lately, I've been good though.