
Feb 09, 2016, 04:05 PM
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Member Since: Feb 2016
Location: Portland
Posts: 5
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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
Hey hon, thanks for posting on here. That's a very descriptive way to describe your experiences. I do understand the inability to "clinically" describe what you are experiencing if that's what you are doing, metaphorically. Describing your reality like "sent from another planet" puts a whole new spin on it. We only use words and descriptors as we know them to do our best to describe our experiences. Now if it's a literal thing being an alien sent to observe, then that would definetly be along the lines of psychosis, not diagnosing, just saying.
I myself do also feel like that- where reality melts into what I call another universe or a bubble that all is unreal but yet familiar. Like an object is the object, but not based on our physical laws of existence. I can sit on my bed, in my room, like I've always done for years living there, and all my possessions feel like it doesn't belong to me, like it's not my room. I know it does, but it doesn't- very weird. I usually just sit there until I get bored or a little freak to start grounding myself through distraction and it fades away. Deep breath and back to reality. Actually, it's like I stay in a constant state of this, it's just sometimes it peaks and ?I notice it.
Under extreme stress, I can be looking at myself from the side watching the body freak out with no conscience control from me, it doing its own thing before I snap back at it....I often and am so stressed out wondering why am I like that? What happened? Etc.
And heck no, you are not being too sensitive and wasting your doctors time! He's getting paid by you to listen. If I want to recite "Mary had a little lamb" for an hour, then they get to listen because I paid for it! Lol That's a little extreme and maybe far fetched...but it's true.
This is a concern of yours and obviously is causing you some discomfort that it should be explored. Maybe it's beyond your therapists expertise? Does she have trauma training? Maybe time to find one that does deal with dissociative disorders?
I don't know, but you shouldn't short change yourself because you know your experiences better than anyone else. Anyone dismissing another's experiences tends to upset us, even in life out of the doctors office. Actually, it pisses us off because it's frustrating.
Any how love, I hope that you do what's right for you. Good luck! 
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thank you for replying  I'd like to point out that the description I gave in the beginning was not metaphorical but literal. People often assume I'm speaking metaphorically...
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