I was driving away from my T's office down a country lane and I suddenly realised I was driving, and that I had no idea where I was.
I thought I must be on the road that leads out of my T's village as I remembered driving through the village but nothing else. As I continued driving I realised the road was too bendy to be that road, and I wondered if I could have turned onto a different road by accident. After a couple more minutes I approached a main road, and realised I was nearly home. I remembered nothing between leaving my T's village and suddenly realising I was driving on that country road. That's around 10 minutes driving, including driving through a village, that I don't remember.
I don't have a history of dissociative episodes that I'm aware of, but these memory lapses at times of stress have become more common and I did have a flashback recently that resulted in me losing awareness of my surroundings.
I can't talk to my T about this as I'm in the process of terminating
I will probably talk to new T about it when I have one, but in the meantime I'm wondering what people here think? Does it sound like dissociation or something else?

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Echos Myron

I was driving away from my T's office down a country lane and I suddenly realised I was driving, and that I had no idea where I was.
I thought I must be on the road that leads out of my T's village as I remembered driving through the village but nothing else. As I continued driving I realised the road was too bendy to be that road, and I wondered if I could have turned onto a different road by accident. After a couple more minutes I approached a main road, and realised I was nearly home. I remembered nothing between leaving my T's village and suddenly realising I was driving on that country road. That's around 10 minutes driving, including driving through a village, that I don't remember.
I don't have a history of dissociative episodes that I'm aware of, but these memory lapses at times of stress have become more common and I did have a flashback recently that resulted in me losing awareness of my surroundings.
I can't talk to my T about this as I'm in the process of terminating
I will probably talk to new T about it when I have one, but in the meantime I'm wondering what people here think? Does it sound like dissociation or something else?

Im sorry but we cant tell you if this is dissociation in you or something else in you. only you and your treatment providers can tell you that...

in me this was called many different things depending upon other accompanying symptoms....

sleep deprivation, anemia. MS (Multiple Sclerosis) normal getting lost on a country road, work stress....gosh in me this was called so many different things....

line in the sand is this can be nothing or anything. if you really want to know what this is, maybe even though you are in the process of terminating you can find a way to ask your treatment provider or obtain a new one so that you can find out whether this is dissociation in you or something else in you. only they can tell you what this is with in you.

[geis]

Dissociation happens on a spectrum, and almost everyone does it to some degree. Driving home and not remembering all or part of the drive is a pretty common one that's on the normal end of the dissociative spectrum.