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Old Aug 17, 2011, 11:17 PM
Phoboxyl Phoboxyl is offline
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Saxon, your psych is an idiot! Don't listen to them! That's called dissociation or a chronic dissociative episode. Google those terms. When people are stressed to the point of breaking they naturally go into this state of "unrealness" that protects them. They can still act somehow (although not with great control), and it's exactly this reason why the episodes occur. It often happens to people in life-or-death situations and allows them to escape unharmed without having to think or feel - they just do as if it were happening to another person and they were only watching. You see, the brain constructs the experience of consciousness by integrating different sensory systems and mental functions (like memory retrieval) into one coherent "reality". It produces a feeling which we normally have every day that makes us believe we are "ourselves, one, whole, and a distinct entity apart from our mere body". This is actually generated by your brain and it can be shut off, as happens in life-or-death scenarios. I am certain that anxiety and stress are the cause of your dissociative episode, and it has nothing to do with DID. Remember, when people keep anxiety and stress bottled up so they don't have to feel it it's at this point that they become vulnerable to overwhelming feelings and protective dissociative episodes that act as a buffer. In case your wonder, I have first hand experience having suffered this myself.
Thanks for this!
anderson