[roxyanne1]

Can anyone help me in coming to understand this.
Dr. says i do it...do what? Someone please explain.

Oh and please forgive spelling

in the beauty of your presence stillness arises

I also have....

We are not multiple personalities BUT

we do things yet we feel like were not even there. Like watching yourself from above. Or doing things you really don't want to but do anyway.

Like you can get along pretty much with all types of people ...
Though inside were not feeling comfortable with it......

[TrespassersWill]

Dissociation is better known as zoning out. Everyone dissociates to some point which is normal like daydreaming on a long stretch of highway where there is no traffic and you don't hardly recall how the whole trip to your destination. Or spacing out at a boring meeting or class.

But dissociation can happen to people who have survived trauma or abuse where they loose time like they zone out for hours especially when faced with something that upsets them. There is also DID or Dissociation disorders which is a more extreme form of dissociation where people have multiple personalities or alters, some get amnesia, move to another town and live as someone else not knowing.

I'm copying some things from another post someone wrote to me. Hopefully will answer your question. Don't worry just cuz your T said you dissociate; doesn't automatically mean a person has DID.

What are Dissociative Disorders?

Depersonalization Disorder - a feeling that your body is unreal, changing or dissolving. Strong feelings that you are detached from your body.

Dissociative Amnesia - not being able to remember important personal information or incidents and experiences that happened at a particular time, which can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.

Dissociative Fugue - there is severe amnesia, with moderate to severe identity confusion and often identity alteration. For instance, a person travels to a new location during a temporary loss of identity. He or she may assume a different identity and a new life.

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - this person may experience flashbacks, reliving the trauma repeatedly, which causes extreme distress. This, in turn, triggers a dissociative, numbing reaction.

Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (DDNOS) - different types of dissociation may occur, but the pattern of mix and severity does not fit any specific dissociative disorder.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) - sometimes called Multi-Personality Disorder (MPD). Someone with DID experiences shifts of identity as separate personalities. Each identity may assume control of behavior and thoughts at different times. Each has a distinctive pattern of thinking and relating to the world. Severe amnesia means that one identity may have no awareness of what happens when another identity is in control.

[possum220]

Dear roxyanne,

Dissociation can happen for a number of reasons and impact you in varying ways. Please go back to your doctor and ask them what they mean in your case.

Everybody dissociates for one reason or another but having said that some people do it a little and others do it a lot, or to a point where it begins to impact their life.

If it is impacting your life, hopefully you and your doctor will be able to work out a way of fixing things.

Possum

Originally Posted by TrespassersWill

Dissociation is better known as zoning out. Everyone dissociates to some point which is normal like daydreaming on a long stretch of highway where there is no traffic and you don't hardly recall how the whole trip to your destination. Or spacing out at a boring meeting or class.

But dissociation can happen to people who have survived trauma or abuse where they loose time like they zone out for hours especially when faced with something that upsets them. There is also DID or Dissociation disorders which is a more extreme form of dissociation where people have multiple personalities or alters, some get amnesia, move to another town and live as someone else not knowing.

I'm copying some things from another post someone wrote to me. Hopefully will answer your question. Don't worry just cuz your T said you dissociate; doesn't automatically mean a person has DID.

"Dissociation is better known as zoning out" - Exactly
Yet Not Knowing Where You Went.

[Pomegranate]

(((((Roxyanne)))))) I don't know what disassociation is, but I'm sorry you, and everyone else here, have it.

Certain situations, enviorments, people, errands, memories can bring about dissociating.

Again it is if you are someone else - But being dissociative you KNOW you're still you.

Not like multiply personality - they don't know they have actually split personalities.... talk, write, even hand writting changes.

But this is what got them through the tramatic times.

Dissociation as when I was diagnosised was just under multiply.

My sister WAS multipy - after years and years she consolidated. The personalities had to acknowledge each other .... Sounds really weird, and it was to understand it.