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Originally Posted by tiger8
Thanks, what sort of dissociation do you mean? Can you be a bit more specific on that?
As for me thinking of schizophrenia, maybe I was going too far with that, sure but I did have some psychotic episodes before as mentioned; with actual disconnect from reality
I did also have weird moments where I just could not interpret sensory information too well due to some sort of filter having gone missing. I don't think that classifies as dissociation does it?
Though those moments haven't happened in the last couple of months, last time was in March this year (first time was about 3 years ago). They could last from a few seconds to half an hour.
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No, sorry, I can't be more specific as I've never heard of anything like this before and I'm not an expert or a professional. It just sounds more like dissociation to me than psychosis (both involve a detachment from reality, but with psychosis it becomes difficult to tell what is real and what is not real). I once dissociated during an apointment and I saw everything in black and white for like half a minute, then it passed. I felt confused and also felt like I was in a movie rather than in real life, but I was still rational (no delusions or loss of reality) and knew the world wasn't really black and white or a movie. Other times I've had the feeling that I'm not real, but it wasn't psychosis because it was just a feeling - I was still rational. Dissociation (and psychosis) causes and can be caused by stress, which I guess could explain the difficulties you had with processing sensory information, though I'm not exactly sure that I know what you mean. But I do know that when I get stressed, thinking straight and understanding information becomes very difficult.
If you have been psychotic before and this recent experience troubles you then it's probably a good idea to talk to a professional no matter what it actually is. And no one here can give you a definitive answer, but a professional might be able to.