[Lalo59]

Lately, I have this 'real' feeling of being trapped inside me mind, really trapped.

My body is moving about, I'm washing dishes, took my morning walk, fed myself, but all through the day (and for days now), it feels like I am disappearing into place inside my head and everything else is getting further and further away.

My body feels like a coffin. That's the best I can describe it.

And I feel like my sense of time is going. Not the first time but I lost a whole day last week. I can't remember anything about it. I live alone so that freaks me out a bit.

Has anyone ever heard of this before?

[Open Eyes]

It sounds like dissociation. Are you seeing a therapist?

[bpcyclist]

Yes. I do wonder about this representing a little psychosis lurking around the edges. What AP are you on these days?

[HD7970GHZ]

Originally Posted by Lalo59

Lately, I have this 'real' feeling of being trapped inside me mind, really trapped.

My body is moving about, I'm washing dishes, took my morning walk, fed myself, but all through the day (and for days now), it feels like I am disappearing into place inside my head and everything else is getting further and further away.

My body feels like a coffin. That's the best I can describe it.

And I feel like my sense of time is going. Not the first time but I lost a whole day last week. I can't remember anything about it. I live alone so that freaks me out a bit.

Has anyone ever heard of this before?

Hello Lalo59,


I noticed that you are fairly new here. Welcome to Psych Central, I hope you have found this to be a welcoming community.


I completely agree with Open Eyes, this sounds like dissociation.


What you are feeling about your experience is very much in line with my own experiences, and of course, with other testimonials I have read as well. You are not alone, no matter how spacey and disconnected you may feel to the world around you. Dissociation is meant to help us to survive insurmountable pain and suffering - that is what the growing theory is anyways, according to some literature.


Not sure if this resonates with you?


Would you say you have major stressors coming up that may have precipitated your dissociation?


Thanks,
HD7970ghz

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Lalo59

Lately, I have this 'real' feeling of being trapped inside me mind, really trapped.

My body is moving about, I'm washing dishes, took my morning walk, fed myself, but all through the day (and for days now), it feels like I am disappearing into place inside my head and everything else is getting further and further away.

My body feels like a coffin. That's the best I can describe it.

And I feel like my sense of time is going. Not the first time but I lost a whole day last week. I can't remember anything about it. I live alone so that freaks me out a bit.

Has anyone ever heard of this before?

Im sorry but we cant speculate what this is in you. in me my treatment providers call getting stuck in my head by many things (mostly psychosis) but do not call it a dissociation problem in me.. short version dissociation reality remains intact. so they diagnose based on whether my feeling far away is accompanied by other dissociation symptoms ie mentally numb, knowing Im still here in reality just mentally feeling like Im sinking. and unfeeling emotionally. Vs psychosis (being trapped, caged, or stuck in my mind, or belieivng I am disappearing, evaporating, ghost like, invisible)

when Im just feeling dissociation symptoms then they rule its part of my dissociative disorders, but if what Im feeling is accompanied by psychosis symptoms they rule it as being one of my other mental or physical health problems and make changes to my meds.

my suggestion is contact your doctors, they will be able to tell you what this is inside you (which is something that we can not do here on psych central)

[Kathleen83]

Hi Lalo. I'll skip right past the "what is this" part that you didn't ask about...and answer what you DID ask - "has anyone ever heard of this before"? Well, more like, experienced this before. When I get emotionally overwhelmed, or emotionally exhausted, my mind takes breaks similar to what you are reporting. How it presents, what happens when it does, varies, for me. It can run from being on auto pilot (going through my day without much conscious thought of what I'm doing) to completely blacking out and having no memory of anything (sometimes finding myself in places with no memory of having gotten there, or time loss) - to even having different memories of time and events than those around me report (thinking I'm at home...others telling me they saw, even interacted with me, elsewhere).


The ironic part is, I knew I experienced this, and then while in therapy, I learned I was doing it way more than I even knew. The good news is, there are techniques you can learn, to help yourself in those moments. You can learn how to recognize when it is coming on,...and stop your mind from stepping away from your body. You're not alone, and a good therapist can help you explore this, and hopefully even get a handle on it.

[Fuzzybear]