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Originally Posted by WindsOfPlague
I am a 17 year old male. At my 17 years of age, the phrase I use the most is "back in the day". A lot of people pointed that out.
When I look into the mirror I don't really recognize myself. When I look into the mirror I expect to see my 11 year old self but instead I see my 17 year old self who almost looks like an adult. Mentally, I feel like I am 11 year old, in fact, mentally I am the same person I was 6 years ago; my behavior and my interests remained the exact same.
I really miss the 2000s and I seem like I am stuck in the 2000s. I dress like a 2000s kid, listen to music from 2000s, and generally I try to own as many things from the 2000s as I can. I really don't like this decade. It just sucks and with every year it gets worse.
I've also lost track of time. I feel like yesterday was Christmas. I feel like 2007 was 2 years ago. Time just flies. A day passes, then another, and then another, it all happens in an instant. It might be due to aging but I have asked my peers if they feel the same and they said they do not feel the same.
I don't know where else I can post this. Is being stuck in the past considered depersonalization?
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if you were here in my location no preferring to live as if it is back in the 2000's is not called dissociation.
there are many people who live as if t hey are in different times (real and fictionalized) example "trekkies" (trekkies prefer living as if they are part of the star trek tv series\movies world) "potter people" are those that grew up with the harry potter theme\movies... "flower child" and "hippies" live as if they are still in the 1960's and 1970's...I know some people who live their life as if they lived through the roaring 40's and 1950's...
my point is here in my location this is not a dissociative mental disorder. its a lifestyle someone chooses.
17 is such a hard age to be, most 17 years olds do naturally battle with self image, who am I, sometimes feeling like a child younger than their age.
my point theres a thin line between these normal issues and dissociative disorders...one common denominator with dissociative disorders is the symptom of dissociation.
dissociation is a response to a trigger. a trigger is anything negative or positive that causes a person to react by
feeling numb\not feeling emotions, spacey\foggy (some people call this not having any thoughts or not being able to put their thoughts together in a coherent way, looking through a curtain or thin veil, like being drugged but know they are not using drugs) and feeling disconnected (some people look at a body part and ...feel....that body part is not attached to their body but they ...know... in reality that body part is attached to them, they feel like they look strange but know in reality they are not really strange....)
there are some mental disorders where a person has ...lost touch with reality.... and for example may believe the year is what it is not and live accordingly. but they are not diagnosed with depersonalization.
that said we are not able to make a diagnosis of whether this is normal or depersonalization with in ...you....
If you feel you may have any mental disorders (including depersonalization) you will need to contact a treatment provider in your own location. they will be able to diagnose whether your lifestyle of choosing to live as if it is still the year 2000 is a mental disorder or not.