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Old Mar 28, 2018, 10:02 PM
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Does this make sense?

We don’t have time loss but we have memory loss, but since we stay co-conscious, our memory loss can be construed as time loss.
There is no track of timeloss, but just memory loss.

We do experience time jumps...daze and fuzzy... then it’s the future (just hours or moments)...but who doesn’t?

We don’t get it’s Monday then boom it’s Thursday (but it does sometimes), but it’s vague and can feel there were days and events in between (we stick to a routine)...but 95% can’t remember unless we peel for a memory part and piece some of it together with great effort.

So hard to describe because it’s sometimes not the same but at other times it is.

Is anybody else that lucky, too?
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Old Mar 28, 2018, 11:20 PM
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To an extent for me, yes.

My time line for past or present is ?

Relative. ?

I don’t know why I chose that word but it seems to fit.

I do have a hard time with time perception in the actual “feeling” of it, if that makes any sense.

I really don’t have words to describe that right now but I wanted to say “yes” I do understand.
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Old Mar 29, 2018, 02:19 AM
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I have read or heard or been told (I don't know which) that people with DID can have amnesia for their time loss. Just to add extra fun.
I sometimes experience abrupt jumps in time and space. More often I just don't know what the heck is going on, space-wise or time-wise. Life is. I'm here, I'm there. Whatever.
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Old Mar 29, 2018, 02:20 AM
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We do experience time jumps...daze and fuzzy... then it’s the future (just hours or moments)...but who doesn’t?
Yah I think that's called "Time Loss" and I think people don't.
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Old Mar 29, 2018, 06:50 AM
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Does this make sense?

We don’t have time loss but we have memory loss, but since we stay co-conscious, our memory loss can be construed as time loss.
There is no track of timeloss, but just memory loss.

We do experience time jumps...daze and fuzzy... then it’s the future (just hours or moments)...but who doesn’t?

We don’t get it’s Monday then boom it’s Thursday (but it does sometimes), but it’s vague and can feel there were days and events in between (we stick to a routine)...but 95% can’t remember unless we peel for a memory part and piece some of it together with great effort.

So hard to describe because it’s sometimes not the same but at other times it is.

Is anybody else that lucky, too?
yes I have had memory problems/ memory loss without time loss. sometimes its a dissociative problems in me, sometimes its a psychosis problem in me and sometimes its because of my physical problems like not eating/ skipping meals, or not getting enough sleep or my MS. My treatment provider tells me that even normal people have times when they cant remember things but have not lost track of time,
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Old Mar 29, 2018, 11:02 AM
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I don't keep up with the day or date much unless it's something important to me so, that could explain for why I'm surprised when the weekend is closer than I thought but, I do get the memory fuzziness or partial loss about what happend in the last few days and then have to backtrack through the stored memories to remember what happend. I sometimes even forget what I ate that day or the day before and have to sift through the memory to find that information.
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Old Mar 29, 2018, 08:46 PM
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Thanks you all, I just know that we don’t have normal memory loss.

Time flies.

There is no such thing as total recall. Just vague, impersonal, faded, soundless glimpses of broken up images.

Oh well, if there was a cure.
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Old Mar 29, 2018, 10:12 PM
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i remember what my alter did but have personality time loss when i am alter of default me. i can remember what he did but can't control what he does to me or others.
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Old Mar 30, 2018, 07:41 AM
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time loss is just nasty!. I hate it!.

memory loss is.... annoying, for lack of a better word
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Old Mar 31, 2018, 05:05 PM
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Basically just don't account for the clock or calendar is all this means for us...
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Old Apr 12, 2018, 09:07 PM
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Does this make sense?

We don’t have time loss but we have memory loss, but since we stay co-conscious, our memory loss can be construed as time loss.
There is no track of timeloss, but just memory loss.

We do experience time jumps...daze and fuzzy... then it’s the future (just hours or moments)...but who doesn’t?

We don’t get it’s Monday then boom it’s Thursday (but it does sometimes), but it’s vague and can feel there were days and events in between (we stick to a routine)...but 95% can’t remember unless we peel for a memory part and piece some of it together with great effort.

So hard to describe because it’s sometimes not the same but at other times it is.

Is anybody else that lucky, too?
Yes I have the same thing, my memory is ridiculously awful if I'm switching around a lot, I seem to lose time more nowadays, well like you, usually I am aware that there were days in between but I can't recall anything from them without being prompted by someone and even then it's like I know the story and can say "I went to the shop" but I can't feel any emotion about that time or remember details, it's like they were someone else memories or someone else told me the story. Occasionally I lose small chunks of time, I will look at the clock and its 9am and Im outside gardening then I look again and its 3:30pm and I'm reading a book inside but I have no recollection of anything I have read in the book and have to re-read it. There are a ton of books on my kindle that say I have read them through but I don't remember them at all - someone here must be a really avid reader!
Like right now I can tell you the date I got married, where we went and that it was cold and raining - all the memories I have are images and those are photographs I have in the album - not my own emotions
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Old Apr 13, 2018, 09:58 AM
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Does this make sense?

We don’t have time loss but we have memory loss, but since we stay co-conscious, our memory loss can be construed as time loss.
There is no track of timeloss, but just memory loss.

We do experience time jumps...daze and fuzzy... then it’s the future (just hours or moments)...but who doesn’t?

We don’t get it’s Monday then boom it’s Thursday (but it does sometimes), but it’s vague and can feel there were days and events in between (we stick to a routine)...but 95% can’t remember unless we peel for a memory part and piece some of it together with great effort.

So hard to describe because it’s sometimes not the same but at other times it is.

Is anybody else that lucky, too?
Sort of but, we always figured that it was a matter of not keeping up with days or dates.
We often have trouble remembering what we ate in days past and even on the very day we ate and have to sitdown and try to locate the memoies of that action. Sometimes it is frustrating and a bit scary when we have trouble locating the memory.
The hosts brother says that it is just age and that it happens to everyone but, then again he seems to think that since he has watched medical fiction shows since he was a teenager that he is capable of giving medical advice. He also likes pretending to be well educated and giving advice on other things that he knows nothing about.
I/We do sometimes feel shocked that it is already Friday or Saturday when I thought it should be Monday or Tuesday.
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Old Apr 13, 2018, 06:00 PM
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For us...we live in the present because we are so switchyroo...a thing past the last few hours become echoes of history fading off into oblivion.

Each switch overlaps the last building up layers of its memories burying the previous soon to be as the future arrives.

This is our norm.

I’m not bothered about any of it much. Every morning looks like a brand new day unmolested by the previous until realizations and memories pop in.

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Old Apr 14, 2018, 03:31 AM
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Im not DID but I am curious as to why sometimes right after Therapy session I will get home and can not remember what went on. Just flashes of it. I actually had to email T and ask him to summarize the session as I remember he posed a question to me to think about. I have c-PTSD and dissociate in therapy and he as been working on me being triggered and getting out of it on my own. He says EVERYONE gets triggered. He wants to start doing EMDR but had to wait until I learned to be safe in his office and untrigger myself.
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Old Apr 20, 2018, 11:37 AM
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After my son died, I went away for two years. Woke up in a casino in
Vegas. Mean Girl does most of the highjacking. Days, weeks, months. Since I was ten and had to go and live with the monster.
Total black out. I never remember. Have never been able to remember
getting married the second time.
Don't know their names and only one has ever spoken to me. She was
good to me; mother and mentor. She tried to keep the others in line. I
hated saying goodbye to her, but they all had to leave.
They have been gone for sixteen months now. I have not lost one
minute of time and no one plays tricks on me. All it would take to
open that door is one bottle of tequila. I'm not even tempted.
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Old Apr 20, 2018, 03:29 PM
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Memory loss is what causes the time loss. In my case, I never knew about the time loss. I believe that is because of how my dissociative disorder developed. I would have amnesia about the behavior of my alter states and also about the time loss. Total blackout of these other sides of me. This mental illness is extremely confusing and complicated.

Now late in life, I have become aware of some episodes where I can actually document the "going away" or time loss.
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Old Apr 21, 2018, 08:04 PM
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Amnesia as I see it is not registering the being of your other’s person’s...which I don’t. Through Co-consciousness...I know some things...but what makes them them....no idea: that’s amnesia which encompasses their memories which makes it memory loss/timeloss.

Our mind is so busy we don’t register the loss...at least I don't because I’m always awake, but time is not cohesive and linked.
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Old Apr 22, 2018, 10:24 PM
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Some people believe that MPD/DID/OSDD deliberately forget. I know that some times all it would take for me not to forget, is to have someone who understands communicate with me. I know that I would not loose some memories if I had a significant other who talked to me on a regular basis and reminded me of things that I said or did. I cannot explain the why. I know that the amnesia is not deliberate but is a subconscious thing. Something happened during the first three years of life that was so traumatic we automatically forgot. Then, we must have gotten traumatized again and automatically forgot. The brain got damaged. The automatic forget mechanism now has no logic. It happens even if there is no trauma.
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Old Apr 23, 2018, 09:59 AM
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Some people believe that MPD/DID/OSDD deliberately forget. I know that some times all it would take for me not to forget, is to have someone who understands communicate with me. I know that I would not loose some memories if I had a significant other who talked to me on a regular basis and reminded me of things that I said or did. I cannot explain the why. I know that the amnesia is not deliberate but is a subconscious thing. Something happened during the first three years of life that was so traumatic we automatically forgot. Then, we must have gotten traumatized again and automatically forgot. The brain got damaged. The automatic forget mechanism now has no logic. It happens even if there is no trauma.
Ever been told (accused) that you have a selective memory? In a way it’s a denial of your condition and a slam- boy it makes me mad.
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