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Default Jun 12, 2007 at 11:54 PM
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I felt like I should share this for some reason... I've noticed that I've done this since I was little. My therapist says that it's a coping/defense mechanism.... The other day my stepmom said some things to me that I cried cause I felt bad. A while later I went with her and someone to the store for some prescriptions and stuff. I found myself staring out the window and then as if in a movie I saw things going by the window as if they were snapshots. and I realized I knew what was going on; that they were having a conversation and I was aware of this but it wasn't sinking in and I didn't hear what they were saying... I've always done this... felt detached from things, and as if in a movie or something... Even since I was a kid; my therapist said I did it to survive eventhough I went through some messed up things, I've never considered my situation to be something that someone would have to "survive".. Fel free to comment or whatever; just felt I had to share this
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hi evildouble.

I understand your need to dissociate. I have the same issue. It can be very disturbing at times but then again i try to think...hey its always been here..why worry so much now. Welcome to the forum. Hopefully you will find it somewhere you you can find support and answers.
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Sometimes I forget when I have made a post or thread so I hought in case you have forgotten here is this copy of your other thread. it might help since you got some replys in the other thread .

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I was wondering if anyone could help me make sense of this. I have several psychiatric diagnoses- BPD, OCD, chronic trauma syndrome, schizoaffective disorder bipolar type and panic. But I've been told that I sometimes dissociate or kind of. I dont know a whole lot about it. I know I space out a lot and have always been one to day dream a lot. I recently I had an experience the other day.. where I was ridding in the car staring out the window and others were carrying on a conversation and I just didn't hear them all of a sudden and was seeing things in "clips" kind of like seeing at the moment what was going by out the window but not really remembering where I had been and putting it together... Does anyone understand what I'm saying... Like I've had this randomness going on in my head where a word will triger a thought and things will connect that really doesn't go together like I'll think of a duck and how I used to have a pet duck and then I might think of something that was triggered by thinking of the duck and so on like this neverending stream of consciousness or something. any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks

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Happened a lot when dx'd with PTSD and Codependancy than DID was last dx. many before that.
I am so tired of dx's.
Just want you to know you are not alone and what you say is very familiar here.

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Im not Schizoaffective but I do have a friend that is and went through this and this kind of thing was why she thought she had a dissociation disorder. Her psychiatrist explained to her that dissociation happens no matter who you are and what disorder you have.. he told her that things like having sex and tuning out or thinking about her grocery list or what color to paint the kitchen was normal dissociation that happens to everyone everyday. so you can stop worrying. regardless of the disorder your looking out the window and tuning out the conversation in the car is completely normal dissociation stuff. according to my friend and her psychiatrist it would be on the dissociative disordered (not normal side of things) if you got majorly upset about something or you were in the process of being attacked and then went into a dream world that you created to feel safe in and when you were not daydreaming you were no longer in the car. Then you would have one or more of four or five different dissociative disorders.

thinking thoughts and then train of thought triggers from one thing to another.. I don't do that because I have DID where when I am triggered just once by something Im in my dream world and my body is an alter. So I don't experience train of thought triggers upon triggers but I do know someone that does. she had to work with her therapist to train herself to say stop when she reached the first triggering thought and either locate the trigger or change the negative thought to a positive. It sounds funny when you first see her do it.. walking down to the store suddenly she will say STOP IT. I will not scare myself by continuing this train of thought. I am safe walking with Crystal and we are going to the store and then we start talking about things we see along the way.

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