Do you dissociate?

Sometimes, I completely dissociate from reality while I’m at work or socializing. Except it’s kind of different from just getting distracted, I feel paralysed, like I can’t move, think or speak for a couple of minutes and my body tingles and my brain feels completaly empty as if my soul just left my body. Sometimes I get scared that there’s something wrong with me and I’m about to faint or be sick or something. But then, I’ll slowly start listening and looking at what’s around me, and I feel like I can ground myself again, move and react. When it happens it always feels so weird though. Does this happen to you?

purelycryptic

6mo

All the time.

Jam~Jam

6mo

It’s my go to but I’m training myself to process more.

Tangerine

6mo

It sounds like what you are experiencing is depersonalization… it is where you feel like you are detaching from your body. I don’t experience this but I experience derealization, where I feel like nothing around me is real like I am watching a movie. It still scares me a bit, but I just try to relax when it happens and it passes.

Junebird

6mo

It kind of sounds like what I call “zoning out” but maybe a bit more extreme? I’ve never felt paralyzed, but just like the world gets fuzzy for a moment (or ten). I suppose I’m not moving, so that could be what you’re describing. Are you worried about it?

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