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Originally Posted by Wysteria
I sometimes dissociate, especially in therapy because of what we are talking about...but something else is happening that I really don't understand.
Lately, I have an image of like glass shattering as if I've walked through a glass door, and the glass shards are suspended in thr air around me...they sparkle, reflect, and have images and memories on them...and I kind of see the 'real' world going on in the distance, but feel like I'm just standing there bleeding from the broken glass terrified and also in shock that it has happened. I'm so afraid and 'naked' in that I'm frozen in time and space and bleeding from all the cuts. I tried to explain this to therapist, but he just couldn't seem to understand, but he always, always is the only one who can. I don't know what to do....
Does anyone else understand?
WB
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Here in NY (the one in the USA as opposed to other locations) seeing things that are not real is called a hallucination, or delusional thought. here this kind of thing isnt considered a dissociative symptom/dissociative problem. but having hallucinations can happen whether a person has a mental disorder or not.
I know some people that have the same glass type hallucinations that you have posted their hallucinations come from things like borderline personality disorder, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia.....
I also know many self injurers that have glass type hallucinations because self injurers usually if not always fantasize, imagine what they would like to do/use,...and other self injury thoughts, delusions and hallucinatory activities in their brains.
mine come from being a self injurer and bipolar disorder...when under stress my mind conjures up all kinds of self injury hallucinations, when I have strange hallucinations/delusional thoughts like shards of glass, or other objects breaking around me, or any other type hallucination, I contact my treatment provider and they make changes to my medications. this usually gets the problem back in control.