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Originally Posted by Susan27
My major defense mechanism from childhood was to dissociate
It affected my development to the point that I didn't become conscious until it broke through like s tear one night in July when I was 23 and had moved far away from home and what was familiar and defined me
Now I'm 48 and have these horrible flare ups where I can acutely feel severe fragmentation but I do not think it rises to the level of DID...I think it is right below that particular diagnosis
It's horribly painful in many ways mostly in the forefront of my brain/head and inside where I feel no solid sense of self and I get flooded with secondary terror
Does anyone else have a dissociative disorder like this but without alters (not that I know of anyway although I certainly feel state changes and have no continual sense of self from then to know )
I'm so scared and just want to know if anyone else can get this splintered/shattered/fragmented inside and what helps make it calm down
Susan
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when this happened to me my treatment providers called it anxiety. their reasoning for calling it anxiety was because dissociation isnt a painful disorder in my location. its a reaction to a trigger here where I am, and the symptoms in my location is numbness, spacing out, and a numb just observing type of disconnection with the physical body.
what helped me was anti anxiety medication.
suggestion since a person can have dissociation along with anxiety disorders maybe contact your treatment providers. maybe adding a medication will help with the painful side of your dissociative problems.