Posted by Pari on April 12, 2001, at 3:54:48
In reply to Re: Mirror anxiety -- Dissociation? » Pari, posted by ShelliR on April 11, 2001, at 18:46:15
> Pari,
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> I believe that the consensus is that medication helps with the symptoms of dissociation (anxiety and depression), but the roots of why you dissociate need to be worked on in therapy.
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> Are you currently in therapy? What happened to you in the mirror has happened to me a lot during my life and it has taken therapy to help me deal with it when I cannot stop it, and also to go back to the root causes of my dissociation and work through those. Unless what you experienced was just a flashback of your LSD trip, I hope that you have a good therapist who knows how to work with dissociation.
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> ShelliThankfully my dissociations, if that's what they are, have been very infrequent and I have a clear memory of the experience. I am in therapy and on meds and perhaps that is why after my mirror experience the other night I was able to sleep once the Ambien kicked, and I woke up fine in the morning. Breaking out the dark fog of depression and building back my self esteem is priority right now.
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