How often do you lose time?

Luce · Nov 29, 2016, 10:53 PM

Another poll to go along with the other one... How often do you experience loss of time?
(The poll is fairly self explanatory, I think?)

Nov 30, 2016, 05:58 AM

it depends on stress level and circumstance

it's vary rare that I can get through a day and peace it all together (i'm always looking about 4 or 5 hours of lost time in that day), though sometimes it's only a couple of times a week

never less than that though, and once a day is more often- so that's what I voted for

amandalouise · Nov 30, 2016, 02:13 PM

my time loss even when my alters and I were not integrated did not go according to per day\per week\per month. it just depended upon other accompanying problems like my bipolar cycles\patterns, what my MS (a physical health problem not mental) problems were and when\ what my brain could do and couldnt do, whether my PTSD problems were rearing their heads so to speak, my anxiety depression disorders, what medications I was/am on....whether I encountered a trigger that would result in my dissociating...

so many things go into whether I lost time or not. the good part of this was \ is that time loss is normal for most human beings to go through many times a day, and dissociative type time loss is a very special kind. when ever my treatment providers and I discovered I was losing time because of dissociation (otherwise known as dissociative amnesia in my location) the cure was to use my grounding and other coping tools that cut down on my dissociating which cut down on my time loss.

TrailRunner14 · Nov 30, 2016, 04:30 PM

I'm still trying to sort this out too. I chose other, because right now, I'm not really sure how often I experience it. Time right now just feels "off" and fuzzy most of the time.

Working with other parts of me, has triggered it before.

I explained that in the other poll.

leejosepho · Nov 30, 2016, 04:51 PM

For myself, keeping track of time gets no more attention than how many pair of socks might be in my drawer: I always assume there are some, and then I am quite surprised when I do occasionally find their spot empty. Maybe once or twice per month I will discover I have either "lost" or even somehow "gained" a day or two, and it is not uncommon for me to look at the clock and realize several hours have past where I would have guessed only an hour or two.

Luce · Nov 30, 2016, 07:26 PM

I guess the amount of attention it gets is proportionate to the degree of impact it has on your daily life. For many years I wasn't aware of time loss at all (although it still happened) but currently it is causing a huge problem in my life and severely hampering my ability to function in my work and study. I am critically aware of it because *I* need to be out to do my work and instead I find myself at the end of the evening with the work not done. I have just started seeing a new therapist to try and alleviate the situation, but I can see it is not going to be a quick fix.

Nov 30, 2016, 07:56 PM

depends on how stressed we are. more stress= more time loss.

Nov 30, 2016, 08:02 PM

We are so switchy that we have micro-time lost so much that it goes unnoticed unless one of us was to actually investigate it. It's actually easier to turn a blind eye and not even deal with it. We just come across as absent-minded or memoryless.

Luce · Nov 30, 2016, 08:11 PM

We feel that way at times too, AC. There are times when we are much more stable, though.

TrailRunner14 · Dec 01, 2016, 01:32 AM

I agree with your comment on the stability. My time loses are connected, I believe, to other parts of me being more "in front" than me.

That may be a very elementary statement to make here, but as I said on another thread, I'm just now sorting this out and trying to make sense of it.

Thank you for starting this thread and thank you for the comments posted here.

They are helping me!!

ruh roh · Dec 01, 2016, 09:08 AM

I have no way of knowing. I live alone and work for myself. If I lose time, there is no way of really noticing or keeping track, no one to say we did this or that. Some is probably normal time loss, getting absorbed in work. I think anything related to family interactions is dissociation, and that can happen a lot in a day or days of no interaction. My best days are when I feel really present, which does not happen often. I told my therapist I think I dissociate more than I realize and she agreed. If it's normally how things are, it's hard to notice. For me, what stands out and catches my attention is being present in time, not losing it.

Dec 03, 2016, 04:47 PM

Memory loss equates to time lost.

Moment to moment sometimes in a roladex way which gives a blank memory of the past...just fragments that don't make a fluid memory of time. Even a lot of our own personal memories are lost.

Everything in our life is a trigger...people, places, and things.

During "time lost"...if we did something....most of the time (but not all)...I can get a gut feeling that something happened...so a search to that feeling will trigger out the Other that has that memory- which is how we get by.

We live in the present, forgot the past and screw the future...

Dec 03, 2016, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luce

I guess the amount of attention it gets is proportionate to the degree of impact it has on your daily life. For many years I wasn't aware of time loss at all (although it still happened) but currently it is causing a huge problem in my life and severely hampering my ability to function in my work and study. I am critically aware of it because *I* need to be out to do my work and instead I find myself at the end of the evening with the work not done. I have just started seeing a new therapist to try and alleviate the situation, but I can see it is not going to be a quick fix.

Me 2. It raises anxiety.

Dec 03, 2016, 04:52 PM

Omg Wow....I see a reply from this account that I don't remember doing on the first page that doesn't sound anything like what I would write. Cue Twighlight Zone music, please.