How do other people deal with dissociation (mainly dpdr ), does anyone here experience that or is it just me? I'll talk more in a post laterHow do other people deal with dissociation (mainly dpdr ), does anyone here experience that or is it just me? I'll talk more in a post later

Have any methods of facing it and rrecovering?

@Sam212 when i feel especially out of it i exercise to get my mind off of it and it actually helps SO SO much. i also play video games or watch netflix to distract myself! when the weather is nice though i also like to go explore outside

So much harder to deal with it when ocd is invlolved I’ve had some of the worst thoughts during the last month.

@lulu23 Same, it's been tough

@lulu23 Would you mind talking about it? Sharing your experience? I don't know what Is happening anymore

@Sam212 Sure I’ll try to leave out my thoughts so I don’t trigger you. What happened was I went on Prozac and quit cold turkey because my doc said to. Shortly after everything felt dreamlike. I remember just feeling out of it and as if I was just floating through life on autopilot. There were times I would talk to someone and after I had no idea how I was able to say everything. It’s weird as if my brain is separated into a logical thinking me and the dissociated part. It’s really difficult to explain as I’m sure you know. There were a ton of other things that happened including all these philosophical intrusive thoughts. When it comes to the thoughts the best way I can explain it to someone is two friends getting high smoking weed and coming up with all these weird questions and acting funny. Except for me I’m not high and the thoughts affect me way more than they should. . ( I would give an example with one of my thoughts but I’m not sure if it will trigger you or not) I know I’m dissociated but I can’t confirm it’s dpdr I just feel like it is because I relate to many with dpdr.

@lulu23 Now I just try to live life to the best of my ability with all of these thoughts and feelings coming along for the ride. I do things I wouldn’t have before my dissociation. I’m just hoping I will come out of this state one day soon. I will say it’s gotten better and I hear it’s always a gradual recovery with dpdr

Yea I can’t explain the feeling but the thoughts seem to be my ocd. The feeling is so difficult to explain how do you explain your dissociation?

@lulu23 A lot of what you said is similar to my experience as well. Earlier I remember that I would feel "spaced out " at worst and just disconneted from my identity. When my friend rationalized his ocd and convinced himself he was no longer transgender, I, a trans person with ocd too, had a lot of intrusive thoughts about it as well. They would spike up occasionally, it did happen when I felt "disconnected " from myself. It's hard to explain but sometimes I would feel as if I was just existing, like I would walk but wouldn't recognize the fact I was walking. It was weird, the autopilot feeling happened. It mainly centered around depersonalization, feeling disconnected from the sense of self. It's a long story but to cut it short, I still experienced the intrusive thoughts. I don't know how exactly to explain it but that's my story. In all I think the stress is the worst part of it. When I think of my transition, I would feel happy, and I still do, but for a time I would get this feeling of stress that just came on and it would linger. I don't know if any of this makes sense or if it is dpdr but yeah