Posted by yxibow on February 23, 2007, at 3:06:47
In reply to Out of body Experiences - dissociation, posted by rjlockhart on February 23, 2007, at 1:27:13
Dysphoria and disassociation can come because of medication and also because of the lack of medication.
I'm not quite sure where my disassociation lies, but I know I'm not the same person who I was in college. I have to leave that person behind and create something new. Something better.
I went to college in the northwest and I take a trip up there most years. Last year I experienced at least two to three panic attacks in my friend's condo -- I couldn't go anywhere, I felt frozen. I wasted some of the days that I drove up there for to explore my past because I couldn't get out the door. I tried as hard as I could, but I laid under the covers.
This, coming from someone who went on a previous year to the Arctic Ocean all the way from California. Different times. Different medication levels. Who knows. Loved that trip. There's nothing like seeing 24 hour daylight. But I digress.
But I know a panic attack while driving. I feel like I have to stare straight ahead. I can't look to the right, it feels inexplicably wierd. Have to keep some music or something going to keep me going. I've had that several times. I love roadtrips but sometimes these things just happen. And its harder on my system now with a Somatiform disorder dragging me down to do the things I love, like driving for hours in the desert or up north.
Xanax helps quell these things, but for obvious reasons time has to be left before resuming driving. I take Xanax PRN though only, because I would get too used to it.
I don't know, that's my experience of disassociation.
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