Dissociative Identity Disorder?
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lexinonomous
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I have recently started to feel this way. A friend of mine suffers with dissociative identity disorder. When he told me about it a few years ago, it made absolutely no sense to me. Now that I'm experiencing similar feelings, it's starting to set in that I might have this disorder as well. I find myself feeling as if I'm in a dream state while at school. I also feel this way from time to time while at home. When experiencing this at school, I will ask a teacher if I can step out for a moment and I end up having to gather my thoughts in the restroom. It's not a pleasant feeling and is very hard to explain.
Do you ever feel like you're in a dream state? The best way for me to describe the feeling is that I feel as if I'm living someone elses life and not my own.
Do you ever feel like you're in a dream state? The best way for me to describe the feeling is that I feel as if I'm living someone elses life and not my own.
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Do you have several alter egos? Every of these which may have different reactions, emotions, and body functioning. Commo signs and symptoms of DID include losses of time, memory lapses, blackouts, often being accused of lying, finding what seem to be strange items among one's possessions, having apparent strangers recognize them as someone else, feeling unreal, and feeling like more than one person. These are just assessments though, there is not a 100% reliable way to determine whether a person has this disorder or not, and symptoms may vary. I had a friend that was happy and gets suddenly depressed after a while, don't know what happened to her afterwards, she left college and lost her contact.
Yes! I've only ever tried to explain it to one of my friends, and it's probably the hardest concept I've ever tried to explain to someone. I usually get it at home, especially when I've been cooped up for a longer amount of time. I really identify with the living someone else's life metaphor.
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According to something I read Dissociative identity disorder is a coping mechanism for people who have something they want to block memories of some bad things that happened to them when they were younger. If there is even the remotest possibility that cause of what experience is a traumatic event (you may not recall) then first you need find out what exactly happened. It's this knowledge that you'll use to banish those negative feelings from your mind. If this and other things you try change nothing then it might be time to seek professional help.
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I'm starting to feel this way too but I'm not sure if this can be considered as dissociative identity disorder. Sometimes I really feel like I'm not there, and sometimes there has times that I need to remind myself who am I, and why am I where I am on that point, interacting with people or just realizing that I'm on certain point of my life... Even sometimes I think that it's really strange how humans are and it's a weird feeling of that I am a part of them... Does that makes any sense? It's kind of scary sometimes.
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Alright, I think is very likely is a dissociative identity disorder. Maybe you don't have several alter egos that switch into "the body" when they wake up. But you felt like you're taking a place is not belonged to you. That definitely might be related with dissociative disorder, since when you started to feel like that.?
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My SO is quite certain he has dissociative identity disorder or something similar. For example, he doesn't really "feel" pain, because he doesn't think of his body as his - it's just something he inhabits, it's not a part of him. Of course he'll react if something hurts him, but longer and chronic pain apparently don't feel like they're really happening to him.
He also talks of feeling like he's not part of this world, at least not his physical presence, or that the world is not real. I've felt similar things since I was a teenager, but mostly very briefly and sometimes only in one part of the body (my hand, for example).
He also talks of feeling like he's not part of this world, at least not his physical presence, or that the world is not real. I've felt similar things since I was a teenager, but mostly very briefly and sometimes only in one part of the body (my hand, for example).