Dissociation-Symptoms and Questionnaire

Dissociation symptoms and a short questionnaire rating severity of dissociation. Please feel free to leave your results/experiences/thoughts on dissociation.

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• c-ptsd
• dissociate
• trauma
• stress
• amnesia
• memory
• EMDR
• therapy

[mkv1901]

How is that any different from plain forgetfulness or ADD?

[lovethewiccan3fl]

@mkv1901 Because it's Chronic, more severe. With forgetfulness you may place your keys somewhere, someone finds them and you say "oh yeah, I forgot I put them there!" With dissociation it's more like "I don't even know how my keys got there"

[mkv1901]

@lovethewiccan3fl Your description kind of reminds me of my forgetfulness issues, when I am under extreme stress. So I guess dissociation is a way of keeping one from experience the full reality of a situation.

[lovethewiccan3fl]

@mkv1901 Yeah, that's exactly what it is. I always say if there is a period in my life that is too stressful and crappy that I know I won't remember it anyways. 

[DearFirebird]

dissociation used to be something i was constantly dealing with. obviously it can be something immensly helpful when surviving some horrible shit we´ve experienced, but i agree that it can make later life very difficult. for me it feels slightly different from what you describe. i´d like to make a video response as soon as i get around to it.

take care :)

[lovethewiccan3fl]

@DearFirebird Ooh, I can't wait to see that video. Did you have some sort of technique or something to stop from dissociating or did you just kind of stop on your own?

[arcticmonkeys325]

you're stunning, i have ptsd and suffer from dissociation as well it can be really frightening...

[DahniSmith]

and then sometimes i dont watch the "movie" at all, i just sit and think alone in the "theatre", this is when i lose memories, this is when i just automatically react to life as the "camera" and dont realize that me and the camera are the same thing, so when i eventually leave the theatre, my mind thinks no time has passed from when i was "out" to when i went back "in", but in reality, i was the "camera" for any number of minutes or hours, and these create huge gaps for me in my memory

[DahniSmith]

ive always thought of it as the world around me becomes a movie and im alone in the movie theatre, i just forget that im apart of life or that the rules in the "movie" apply to me, sometimes i "watch" the "movie" and dont realize the "characters" talking to the screen are talking to the person sitting in the "theatre" or "me", one time it was really bad, i was watching the "camera" walk across the street and then didnt really get it that the cars could hit me, cuz i think im not in the street

[Manito165]

You describe it perfectly. I hate having this

[theswedishone86]

Wow, you are a really strong girl, I so much regognise myself here with these ptsd symptoms....they are very frustrating.. it's real good and brave you are putting this on youtube!

[NotAvailableForUse]

I dont remember much from my childhood, and a year or two in highschool. Also i lose track of time and days often.

[karaokegirlk]

I have severe dissociation apparently :<(

[karack23]

I have come across your videos quite a few time and watched a few each time and forgotten who you are every time i came back wile watching videos on different topics. Oddly i do not remember you but i remember the video topic hard to explain i guess and only once i see the videos i had watched.

[aleon1018]

I've had missing time events, but then, so supposedly had others around me. That suggests paranormal or that these people didn't want to tell me what happened. In the past few years, I've been recalling some of these events.Some events were also those who had accused me of things and I reacted in a negative way and also dissociated that as well. Really bizarre. One time, and not at band camp, I was on Howard Sterns radio show during work hours. Not something I would have done typically..