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Originally Posted by finding_my_way
i have experienced various types and degrees of dissociation. years worth of things were fuzzy for me or i'd get things confused thinking something happened say a year or two ago when it was several years ago.
or i had an incident when highly dissociated where i was with family and they seemed like strangers to me yet part of me knew they were not.
so, i think that people can experience dissociative symptoms in various ways.
i also had times where i was so far in that i barely recognized things around me because things were so fuzzy yet knew it existed on some level.
but my sense of reality varies, so i think people can experience a wide range of things, and it won't be same for each person.
i thought the whole reason for dissociation was to create a protective barrier as a coping mechanism which can distort your sense of self, disconnect you from your self/body/emotions, etc. as well as distort/alter your sense of reality (like in derealization when the world around you seems like it's a dream/not real, etc.)
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I see you are in canada. here in america in 2013 we switched over to a new standard of diagnostics. one of the diagnostics now in place with dissociative disorders is that reality testing remains intact. that means people who have dissociative problems may ..... feel...these things but reality wise they know what is real and what isnt. they know in reality they have children and who their children are (using the purpose of this thread is focusing on the original poster sometimes does not remember their child exists as an example here)
example one of my depersonalization derealization symptoms is feeling like Im not a part of what is going on with my children. I know they exist, I know they are sitting right here in the room with me, I know that the room upstairs is their bedroom and its their toys over there. I just .....feel ....distanced, disconnected from them. the reality is intact but the dissociative symptoms are there.
here in america any symptoms that reflect losing touch with reality is now no longer part of dissociative disorders, it is part of mental disorders that include psychosis and medical health problems but no longer part of dissociative disorders since 2013.
your location (canada) may go by different standards. the standards of reality testing remains intact is just what america now goes by for diagnosing mental disorders. you can contact your own treatment providers who can tell you what the diagnostics for dissociation and dissociative disorders are in your location.