I have memory pieces that are emotions. for instance Margo is the emotion of anger. Every situation during which I dissociated because the situation made me feel angry and abused is within that memory piece.
I have clothes that are many sizes too small, found things around the house that I don't remember buying, I once found out I had three different bank accounts, Too bad two of them were overdawn, I have become aware only to find out that I was living in a new state and town, or back in a state and town that I had left behind years ago.
I have never logged a date contained in a memory piece so I don't know about if my memory pieces contain dates.
probably not because names dates and places have always confused me. I could say it was monday and be told by someone - parents siblings friends "no its saturday", I can say we went to the store yesterday and Im told by a friend "no we went there three days ago".
For me there is no sense of time. The only way I know what day and time it is, is if I wear a watch that has the time and date on it, I have a callendar and clock in every room of my house including the bathroom. I turn on the tv to the weather channel to find out what the time and day is then go around and X the callendars and check the clocks. Heck I almost didnt graduate high school because I kept failing history classes because I could not remember names dates and places, I ended up doing a remedial type workbook and adjusted testing sheets that did not require me to know a mess of dates, names and places. in school lots of times I would go to my locker and get out stuff for a class only to enter the class and find out I was in the wrong class for that day and time period. It got to the point where a friend would meet me at my locker and we would walk to classes together so I knew what class I was going to for that day and time.
Im told by professionals that what I go through is typicaland is one of the diagnostic symptoms that qualified me as being DID because memories are timeless. In the moment that memories are stored it is during the actual situation. something cant happen yesterday and be stored in the memory today and something happening today cant be stored in the brain yesterday.
So when I dissociate what I am acting out is what is contained in that memory just as if that memory was happening for the first time and when I come back its like I just left and no time has past.
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