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Originally Posted by Claritytoo
I really did want feed back but was afraid to ask. I didn't want to be disappointed. I was feeling very low. I didn't know about this type of thinking as being an aspect of DID. I will follow up with the information you gave. I am still having difficulty with my thoughts and perceptions today. I can't think of what I was feeling when this set off. It has something to do thinking about changing the way we help each other. Something about that makes me feel like we will crumble. It scares me too much and than all terrible thoughts start endlessly runing through my head, not making sense. Making everything unreal. I feel like I could be crushed.
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here in NY my treatment providers say spinning unrealness into things is called delusional thoughts and isnt part of DID because the diagnostics state reality testing remains intact. meaning the person knows whats real and stays in contact realness.
that said its also a part of normal things like using ones imagination/ pretending which every human being does and is taught how to do from the first time they watch sesame street or other shows that use the theme of lets pretend, schools also teach this kind of thinking.
my suggestion is in order to know whether this use of your imagination is a normal thing or enters the abnormal of delusional thoughts (sorry just using new york standards your area might not call this delusional thoughts) is by contacting your treatment providers. I know you are not looking for a diagnosis but in order to make is so you dont have this kind of freak out as you call it happening you need to know what caused it in order to fix it.
example if its normal use of imagination (some locations call this normal non dissociative disordered dissociation) then theres nothing to do other than if you dont like doing it train yourself not to by stopping yourself when you find yourself doing it.
if its in the delusional range there are medications that can help you stay grounded in reality.
with me when this happens its usually a medication problem causing me to have these kinds of delusional thoughts (again using NY terms not saying you are delusional)