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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
For me, over stimulation of the senses, stress, anxiety causes DP/DR to happen. But of course I've experienced trauma in the past, but I'm prone to dissociation anyways.
When I was younger 30 years ago, smoking weed triggered it really bad. I could look at my hand and totally not feel it like it was someone else's. I quit smoking long ago.
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Hi, AlwaysChanging! So what you said about overstimulation sounds a lot like me. I was wondering if any of this sounded familiar to you:
I am a survivor of domestic violence. When things really started to escalate, and my husband became severely verbally abusive, I started to feel the sensation that I was outside of my body.....things slowed down. It felt like I was moving through jello. I knew who I was and where I was, but it was like I was almost absent from what was unfolding. Sometimes, it became so severe that it affected my gross motor skills, making movement very slowed and difficult.
When he eventually became physically violent, the same thing happened. Although, the results were even more devastating. I saw him hurt other people, and I could not move my body forward to help them. It was like I completely left my body and could not move it forward.
What ever he "knocked loose" continues to remain with me. When I am yelled at, I feel the same things rush over me, everything slows down. I believe this is sensitivity to over-stimulation brought about by trauma.
Does this sound like depersonalization?