[Iceage1]

By my psychiatrist that I had disasossication on the baxk of my borderline perosnality disorder. I have no idea what he means and I didn't ask does anyone have any info
Thank you

[finding_my_way]

Originally Posted by Iceage1

By my psychiatrist that I had disasossication on the baxk of my borderline perosnality disorder. I have no idea what he means and I didn't ask does anyone have any info
Thank you

there are different types of dissociative disorders. borderline personality disorder has the type where if you get overwhelmed or stressed out, you can experience dissociation where it makes either your surroundings feel unreal or like you are in a dream or where it feels like your thoughts and feelings don't feel real or belong to someone else or you lose your sense of identity. it can also cause you to forget events due to the dissociation because of how affects the brain and shuts it down/disconnects from self/surroundings.

dissociative disorders can also exist separate from borderline personality disorder which could be any type including DID and similar ones with alters or not.

i have a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (though not the classic type) and am moving away from the diagnosis. but i also have DID as well as OCD...but within all of those disorders, i also experience a lot of trauma symptoms, so for me, most of it is trauma based.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Iceage1

By my psychiatrist that I had disasossication on the baxk of my borderline perosnality disorder. I have no idea what he means and I didn't ask does anyone have any info
Thank you

you are in the UK so what I post may be different for your location..

here in america we have two different words...

dis association and dissociation

the differences in the two words....

disassociation (with the a between two s's) means to purposely some one self from doing something example I disassociated from making the bed meaning I stopped making the bed.

dissociation means to feel numb spaced out and disconnected from one self or those around you. here in america this is a normal response to a trigger...

you know how if someone says something you dont like (the trigger, the cause) the normal response (affect) is to feel angry.

well with dissociation something happens (the trigger, cause) to make someone feel numb, spaced out, disconnected (what the trigger made a person feel (affect)

from there depending upon severity the normal dissociation moves into being a disorder (you can read what dissociative disorders America has at this time in the links at the bottom of my post)

please remember only your own treatment provider can answer as to what they meant when they said you have disassociation problems.

my suggestion is contact your psychiatrist and let them know you dont understand what they said you had and would like more information of what they meant.