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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
I've been a busy bee lately. I'm very active in my church and stuff, and I've also been composing music(piano) like a fiend lol... Between both of those things and having a social life I've barely had time to sit down and breathe for a bit. It's nice to have a life again, 2013 was a particularly bad year for me(I know some of the regulars who were around back then know how tough that year was for me). It's been a hard road to get stable again but I am so thankful to be stable now. I just hope it keeps up. Most of my mental health related stuff is focusing on my Narcissistic Personality Disorder now that my schizophrenia is in remission. I have an excellent therapist that has already helped me with quite a few of my issues already.
So all in all, life is going exceptionally well for me these days.  |
It's so lovely to hear that Atypical
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Originally Posted by newtus
i feel so out of it.
i truly do.
help.
just came back from my therapist. feel out of it. feeling like a zombie. feeling like really bad.
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Originally Posted by newtus
we talked about my parents and what my mom said to me. i literally feel like a complete zombie. i told her that. she said the 15mg of haldol is something my body has to get used to but i cant do this.
...i could barely drive home.
either im overmedicated (which i truly believe i am)
or im going through some weird psychosis (which i dont believe so)
i can barely think right now.
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Originally Posted by newtus
i feel like an out of body experience. dissociation. so weird.
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I would suggest that it sounds like dissociation, especially if you were talking about something difficult like your relationship with your mother. I used to have it when I first started seeing a pdoc and T because I was so bad at opening up about thoughts & feelings. Twice I actually completely lost time (one time I drove!).
Once I learned what it was, I taught myself how to ground in the present and it rarely happens now because I start grounding at the earliest signs. Grounding involves locating yourself in the present using your 5 senses. For me, touch was very effective. I used to see my first T right next to a park, so I would go for a walk in the park after my sessions. I was the weirdo trying to surreptitiously stroke the trees to ground myself!
It always brought me back to my body and then I was safe enough to drive home.
You could practise grounding techniques before your next session (it takes practise) and then see if using them in session prevents/reduces that feeling. And definitely do it before you drive home - we don't want you getting into an accident
*Willow*