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Originally Posted by lucidity11
Does knowing you dissociate make it easier to dissociate? Or am I just more aware I am dissociating? I can't figure it out. I am under some stress, that will pass, but right now I am under a lot of stress. My mind feels like it's spread out on a table and everyone is out. I have had a headache all day. I am having paranoid thoughts and feel light headed. I know my thoughts are not based in fact. Can this type of stuff happen because of stress? Has anyone had similar experience? I am going to go to bed now to see if I can just sleep through it and wake up better. My head is spinning.
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here in New york (usa) dissociation is a reaction to a positive or negative trigger. what that means is something (trigger) will happen to cause a person to dissociate (feel numb, spaced out, disconnected)
for me some of the things that cause me to feel this way is having a great time with friends, stress, anxiety, being sick, not eating correctly, eating too much, not getting enough sleep, having a bad dream..... my point for me there are many good and bad things that cause me to dissociate.
only you and your treatment providers can say whether stress is a trigger for your dissociating.
my suggestion if this continues to bother contact your or a treatment provider who can help you to discover what your dissociative triggers are.
as for knowing about them causing more dissociation ... for me no, the more I know about what causes me to dissociate the better I can take care of my self and use my treatment plan options like breathing, grounding and others that enable me to re ground back to the present moment.
again only you and your treatment providers can say if being informed about dissociation is causing you to become dissociative or become more dissociative.