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Symptoms => Six Major Symptoms => AV - Avoidance => Topic started by: BlancaLap on January 02, 2018, 10:41:44 PM

Title: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: BlancaLap on January 02, 2018, 10:41:44 PM
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/e3/b7/eb/e3b7ebe7ad140082de46525633d46650--shower-walls-mental-health.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/57/1a/71/571a71d121c2698698cc94fddbda494e.png

What do they make you feel?
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: Dee on January 03, 2018, 03:14:03 AM

I know you struggle greatly with dissociation.  I may have asked before, but have you worked with a therapist to manage it?  There are a lot of techniques that seem to help me.  Of course, it is never a one size fits all.  I try to remember it is a left over symptom of something that saved my life.
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: BlancaLap on January 03, 2018, 12:34:48 PM
Quote from: Dee on January 03, 2018, 03:14:03 AM
have you worked with a therapist to manage it?

No, I have a new T but I haven't yet
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: Dee on January 03, 2018, 02:41:42 PM

It is definitely something worth exploring with a T.  You can ask to find ways to help manage dissociation.  There are many grounding techniques.  Also, you can learn what makes you dissociate in the first place and help manage the trigger.
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: RecoveryRandal on January 03, 2018, 02:51:28 PM
Actually, that second series of images really speaks to some of my experiences of dissociating. I'll describe myself as being "untethered" or that I'm rattling around in my own body.

I meditate daily, whether I'm dissociating or not. And I find that somatic-focused guided meditations, like body scans, are a useful way to help me feel reconnected to myself.
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: BlancaLap on January 03, 2018, 03:04:08 PM
Quote from: Dee on January 03, 2018, 02:41:42 PM
Also, you can learn what makes you dissociate in the first place and help manage the trigger.

I'm 100% I know what's the trigger, but I'll discuss it in another post
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: BlancaLap on January 05, 2018, 12:15:02 AM
I know I have been posting a lot in the dissociation section, but the truth is, whatever is happening to me, for me it doesn't have a name. I guess I use the word dissociation because it's something that everybody knows about, everybody knows about despersonalization, desrealization... but for me, it's much more than just that... it's a lot of things, and in one way or another, it's everything. I can't put it a name to it right now, but even if I could, I would choose not to. I guess it would lose the importance it has if I did that.
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: caroline on January 05, 2018, 10:14:07 PM
oh wow, the first frame on the first one and all of the second one.  I'm going to try and draw them for my partner and T!

Thanks for sharing these!
Title: Re: I just found two pictures that explains what it feels like to be dissociated
Post by: BlancaLap on January 05, 2018, 10:32:03 PM
Quote from: caroline on January 05, 2018, 10:14:07 PM
oh wow, the first frame on the first one and all of the second one.  I'm going to try and draw them for my partner and T!

Thanks for sharing these!

;D ;D
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