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Posted by slinky on November 26, 2003, at 21:54:56
Derealisation? Not actually living in body--dreamlike.
I don't know how to explain.
I get panic attacks anxiety when I land in my body and I am real.
It's as if my body is alien..my hands can freak me.
I seem to cope by living in a imaginative trance like state-not always pleasant
I want escapism all the time...but lately life is too real.
I've been harming myself to cope with internal/emotional pain..it's a way of focus my mind away from the pain inside I don't know where this fear or dread comes from--i only slightly pinch my skin--cause I don't want my partner to see it.I freak myself when my mind lands back from the dreamy arty state.
As a child I escaped into imagination where it was safe..it seems I can't grow out of this way of coping.
Please don't mention therapy(it's not that i dissmiss it)--It is extremely difficult (even if you got money) to get it in UK.
I'm lost.
Posted by Dinah on November 26, 2003, at 22:08:47
In reply to Dinah sweety ,or anyone else~, posted by slinky on November 26, 2003, at 21:54:56
Oh, my sweet Slinky. I wish I knew what to tell you. Dissociation is my favorite way of coping too. I hate to land out in the real world. That wonderful foggy distance. So soft. I used to have a whole fantasy world, well into my thirties. I miss it. I can't help but think that if I could go back to it, I'd feel all better. Every waking moment when I wasn't actively doing something, I lived in that better than real world. More real than real world.
Any idea why the real world is intruding? Sticking its ugly head in to cause pain?
I take a Risperdal, .25 mg, when the agitation and anxiety and urges to hurt myself get too strong. Have you given the atypical antipsychotics a try? They're not for everyone I know.
Congratulations on keeping the self injury to a minimum. Even if it's only to please others (or not to scare them) it's quite an accomplishment.
((((Slinky))))
Posted by slinky on November 26, 2003, at 22:25:26
In reply to Re: Dinah sweety ,or anyone else~ » slinky, posted by Dinah on November 26, 2003, at 22:08:47
> Oh, my sweet Slinky. I wish I knew what to tell you. Dissociation is my favorite way of coping too. I hate to land out in the real world. That wonderful foggy distance. So soft. I used to have a whole fantasy world, well into my thirties. I miss it. I can't help but think that if I could go back to it, I'd feel all better. Every waking moment when I wasn't actively doing something, I lived in that better than real world. More real than real world.
>So did I before depakote :-)
Dissociation is the word I was looking for.> Any idea why the real world is intruding? Sticking its ugly head in to cause pain?
Wish i knew , someone said today it's maybe because when things go well I get anxious about it - not used to good things happening , feel or fear like it will all go wrong.
Said I was high also-but I've been crying mostly.> I take a Risperdal, .25 mg, when the agitation and anxiety and urges to hurt myself get too strong. Have you given the atypical
I've tried two I think zyprexa and something else..both gave me compulsive behaviour-mind torture
It's Strange Dinah , meds seem to have opposite effect with me.
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> Congratulations on keeping the self injury to a minimum. Even if it's only to please others (or not to scare them) it's quite an accomplishment.
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> ((((Slinky))))Thanks..I'm having a confused day.
Maybe I need more sex :-)
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