[1flagwriter]

Hey folks. I just have a quick question. I have been suffering with Major Depression and Major Anxiety all my life (I'm 38 now).

A few weeks ago when I was going through another depression episode, I woke up one morning and felt completely separated from myself...It was very weird. It was like I was two different beings...hard to explain.

Is that disassocitation???

[Typo]

I would say that is a form of dissocation Flagwriter, I've experinced it myself a number of times

When I get really stressed, or super hyperviglent, I feel like I'm floating above myself, like I'm watching from above or outside my body.

I've found the best way to handle this (at least for me) is to feel diffrent textures, I'll go outside barefoot and feel the ground, hold a stuffed animal, run my fingers over the wall, I have a small amythest stone I carry with me, when I feel floaty or dissocated I pull it out and go over the edges and feel the diffrent textures in it, it seems to jolt me back down to earth, or back into me. There is also a list of grounding techinques in the PTSD forum I think, or it may be here in the dissocative forum, it's a sticky at the very top of the forum

Best Wishes
Typo

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by 1flagwriter

Hey folks. I just have a quick question. I have been suffering with Major Depression and Major Anxiety all my life (I'm 38 now).

A few weeks ago when I was going through another depression episode, I woke up one morning and felt completely separated from myself...It was very weird. It was like I was two different beings...hard to explain.

Is that disassocitation???

that in itself doesnt necessarily say its dissociation. it could be an anxiety attack, could be an ego state, it could be a psychotic episode, could be a psychic phenomenon known as out of body experience, could be a self hypnotic trance feeling, could be light headed ness from anemia or other metabolic imbalance, could be a physical health problem, fatigue, sleep deprivation, could be evidence of a neuromuscular problems could be a neurological disorder that includes symptoms of feeling separate from oneself, could be schizophrenia where you have an alternate personality, could be dissociative disorders, could be a symptom the goes along with your depression, could be entering manic or depressive states of bipolar, could be something so simple as you were exposed to some chemical that you are having a reaction to, could be medication problems,could be just about anything in this world. the only way to know what it is, is by contacting your doctors. they can tell you what the problem is. we cant do that here. its against the rules here to diagnose other peoples problems.

[Jewels]

Amanda is right, It could be very many things, and we don't know enough to be able to tell you one way or the other. And we are not allowed to diagnose others' problems. That is for the therapist to do. Find a good therapist and ask him/her to give you some tests to find out what you have (if anything psychiatric). Then you will know and will not have to ask those of us who are not therapists. Hope you find out what is concerning you.

Jewels