You Know You've Been Dissociating/being Absent Minded When...

[Ronin]

When you have a puzzle of items & don't recall where does belong a single one of them. Or how they relate to you.

So you start small. I've seen this somewhere / this can be useful for something / figure what it's useful for, keep in every case.

 

[jaccat]

When you find your third unexplained bruise of the week, only, while the second one was huge, it's the third that makes you most suspicious because it's exactly the same size and shape of your own thumprint.

 

[Ronin]

When you remember where you got bruises, what do you don't remember is the days between them.

& When compare & contrast is a good guide to identity and history when you got nada clue.

 

[NoWhereKnowWhere]

The dogs grown wise to you and knows you can't remember shit/can't trust your memory. She has now realised if she acts really hungry then she can trick you into giving her two breakfasts. Apparently or so your other half insists but I don't remember/can't trust my own memory.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

When the bank teller has come from behind her place at the teller window and is shaking me to get my attention and not recalling anything since taking my place in line. (They know about my PTSD so it did not surprise them). This happened 2 days ago.

 

[bettyboopvines]

When you are supposed to meet your husband at a store where you always shop but you can't remember how to get there or where you are now.
I was parked in a parking lot on the phone with him while he gave me directions and turns out I was in the parking lot already. My daughter was with me the whole time but didn't know what to say. So, she pretended to be watching videos on her phone while all this went on. I hate that she has to live with this too.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

you put her pants on backwards. Not once, but 3 times!

I've done that a few times dressing myself....

 

[Muttly]

when your keys seem to have gained a life of their own. you aren't losing them just once or twice a day. you are constantly searching for them. You find them, put them some place "safe", but then your someone else and don't know where that safe place is, and on and on it goes.

when you have a two different nightmares happening at the same time and someone else inside is making comments and trying to wake you up

 

[Ronin]

& When inside peeps are so done with your dissociation even to them they drag up mimicking your old commander to get you do whatever life preserving thing you need be doing at the time.

Then you spent several hours checking where the f*ck are you, now, and hoping the devil isn't anywhere around. :hilarious:

 

[jaccat]

When you ruin a nice and successful shopping day by realising, when you get home, that you left your dary in a cafe 40 miles away.

At least they found it for me, even if the thought of them looking in it is cringe-worthy.

 

[Muttly]

@jaccat I've done things like that so much. I am glad they found it.

When your in bed with your eyes closed and your cat climbs on top of you, and you think it's a cat that died many years ago.

heh! When you come back to the computer and find you are in the middle of a sentence here and you really thought you'd pressed post and don't know what you were starting to write.

 

[Milo's papa]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that does these things.

When your boss starts talking to you about a project and you tell him it's done. Then he looks at you and says " you can't be, you won't even have it for another week."

You start telling your boss you're going to start on a different project and he tells you you did that one last week.

Oh WTF, another one of those days. Good thing he knows I'm crazy.