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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
I saw a movie on tv and it reminded me of when I would take my son to the movies on a Sunday afternoon. I always felt such love and joy spending time with him. Sometimes we would go out to eat after which was a treat because money was tight. But I would do anything to spend that time with him. To listen to him talk about the movie we just saw. The feelings of love and joy that brought back to me was as if it happened yesterday. I called my son and left him a message. After I had tears in my eyes with happiness for being able to feel such love and some sadness for that time having passed. My question is Are the feelings and thoughts the result of dissociating? It all felt so real. Like it happened a short time ago. I knew I was in 2014 and that my son is grown. The feelings are so real. I am not used to feeling love. It is difficult to explain.
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if you were here in NY no this would not be called dissociation. here dissociation is feeling numb, spaced out, foggy minded. here where I live and work this would be called a parent remembering happy times with their child. which is perfectly normal part of being a parent. depending upon other accompanying symptoms it would also be called having a flash back (flashbacks are reliving a memory, this type of reliving a memory happens through the mind/brain being triggered by something... example the smell of fresh cut grass can sometimes send me into reliving a memory of laying on the lawn in the summer after the lawn had been mowed when I was a child.)