Detached From Body?

[Nobody's Daughter]

Does anyone else feel a sense of detachment from themselves?

As if you're not quite a complete part of your physical self but just go through the motions anyway with great effort.

A sense of disconnectedness from reality in general?

 

[_Minsk]

Does anyone else feel a sense of detachment from themselves?

As if you're not quite a complete part of of your physical self but just go through the motions anyway with great effort.

A sense of disconnectedness from reality in general?

Yeah i relate a lot! its one of my reasons for ctb, your body does this in order to cope with extremely painful and traumatic situations, once your body did it, it will use it more often, even when stuff is not "that bad".. its a viscous cycle, your body switches to detachment mode, you freak out = more detachment:D

some scientific labels for this might be Depersonalisation, Derealisation, dissociative disorder, etc
it can get so bad, you completely lose touch with reality, you dont know what time it is, what time actually is, where you are, you can basically lose all relation to reality which is extremely painful.. i have it at times when im stressed out, i hope we can find solutions for this, but as far i know its not that dangerous, just traumatic:/

if you can manage to feel more safe and good it might get better, would you mind me asking if you know what might have triggered it the first time? some get this from smoking weed and trauma

Dissociative disorders are mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions and identity. People with dissociative disorders escape reality in ways that are involuntary and unhealthy and cause problems with functioning in everyday life.

 

[Nobody's Daughter]

I think it's the body going into survival mode.
There's a kind of poetic irony to that.

 

[Shinbu]

I do feel like I'm living in a bad dream tbh. How the universe came to be doesn't make sense. How can something come out of nothingness?. I don't think I will ever get that answer, or be sastified with it. The body, and mind makes everything feel real. I have proposed we are living in a virtual reality simulation, but there is little evidence to that theory, unless someone would like to prove otherwise.

 

[Nobody's Daughter]

It's ok, I can talk about it. I'm a pretty open and blunt human.

I watched my son's father brutally mutilate himself in front of me with a bread knife when I was 23 ,(am 41 now). He is a schizophrenic. He amazingly survived.
That horror show landed me in the psych ward for the second time (I returned many times after this).

I have been raped twice.

I have been a victim of Domestic Voloence many, many times.

My Mum died 3 years ago. She was my Universe.

My family have nothing to do with me.

Stuck in another abusive relationship.

 

[YukiFox]

In my case I feel frequently that way. Sometimes I lost the sense of time and think that I don't do anything in hours. I try to attach myself to reality talk with the neighbors, family and friends, because I feel that in any moment I can lose control on myself for not feel that reality anymore. Sometimes I feel possessed for a spirit.

 

[mpnf]

Yeah , derealization and then depersonalization gotta kill myself no matter how

 

[Nobody's Daughter]

I know that NASA discovered that there is a Parallel Universe. I read an article on it recently.
The idea of time moving backwards is a rather interesting concept.
Great, so there is a super happy me out there somewhere. At least I have some kind of purpose and am content in another universe.

Or it's just another super depressed me..

 

[Shinbu]

It's ok, I can talk about it. I'm a pretty open and blunt human.

I watched my son's father brutally mutilate himself in front of me with a bread knife when I was 23 ,(am 41 now). He is a schizophrenic. He amazingly survived.
That horror show landed me in the psych ward for the second time (I returned many times after this).

I have been raped twice.

I have been a victim of Domestic Voloence many, many times.

My Mum died 3 years ago. She was my Universe.

My family have nothing to do with me.

Stuck in another abusive relationship.

I have been sexually assaulted, I just realized after so many years. The guy is locked up thankfully. I felt defeated when he kept touching me without my consent, and I didn't do nothing until a few days later back when I was in school, he just wanted to assert dominance, also exploit my reserved nature, and I punched him finally. That sounds tough of what you went through. I hope you get the support you need. I have PTSD, I realized after being a member on this forum for awhile, the bullying in the past gave me PTSD, he wasn't the only one who gave me PTSD, the other two as well gave me it.

 

[Oh so tired]

I feel a sense of detachment a lot of the time, kind of floaty and not really here, it is quite disorientating and can make it hard to function normally. I have been told, as others have suggested, that it is a way of coping with very difficult thoughts or feelings, kind of 'zoning out' to avoid feeling. The mental health professionals have suggested I do something to help keep me grounded; talk to someone, do an activity that I enjoy, look at photos of loved ones, but I must admit I don't often do those things, I just go with it!

 

[mpnf]

I have been sexually assaulted, I just realized after so many years. The guy is locked up thankfully. I felt defeated when he kept touching me without my consent, and I didn't do nothing until a few days later back when I was in school, he just wanted to assert dominance, also exploit my reserved nature, and I punched him finally. That sounds tough of what you went through. I hope you get the support you need. I have PTSD, I realized after being a member on this forum for awhile, the bullying in the past gave me PTSD, he wasn't the only one who gave me PTSD, the other two as well gave me it.

I was abused on 2015 by a gypsy man, that claimed loudly he was a "good person" literally. In the middle of the night at a park. Too much! I can't believe it actually happened and since then I tried not to care, but it happened anyway.

I know what you feel! God be with you!

 

[Shinbu]

I know that NASA discovered that there is a Parallel Universe. I read an article on it recently.
The idea of time moving backwards is a rather interesting concept.
Great, so there is a super happy me out there somewhere. At least I have some kind of purpose and am content in another universe.

Or it's just another super depressed me..

I think that was debunked, but I'm not sure.

 

[I_love_to_bake]

I've always been completely detached. Basically a total state of dissociation. Poster Minsk brought up great points about how dissociation is a survival instinct.

Time bending is a hard concept to explain to people who haven't experienced it. But if time isn't real, nothing matters and you have no control, so it's like a state of helplessness to be disconnected from the perception of the passage of time. It usually takes drugs to take me to that point, but not always...

The guy I see in the mirror is a stranger who makes me uncomfortable. I don't like him. I just control him to make people laugh, see the joy in their faces that I can't have...

 

[Shinbu]

I have never came across this article in the past, but it was a interesting read on the theory that I have proposed. It's on the NBC news site. If anyone would like to explore the idea further then read this. www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna1026916

 

[mpnf]

Maybe is because we hate the life we were given soooooo much, not our real self