sisyphus

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A poem, an exercise in omitting letters.

People experience a baseline of dissociation. It’s how we get daydreams and déjà vu.

A lot of the posts on here try to make a big deal out of a little amount of dissociation.

Daydreaming, looking blankly at one spot for a few minutes without really thinking of much, your eyes unfocusing when you space out, are all fine functions that your body and brain will do sometimes and are not immediately indicative of a dissociative disorder or a problem with dissociation.

If you do these things constantly, however, it would do you some good to do some casual grounding exercises, practice mindfulness, and get more in tune with your body.

Severe dissociation is more like:

Staring completely unfocused and thinkng of nothing at a random spot for a long period of time (not just in a boring class - spacing out while bored is normal)

Losing control of your appendages, limbs, feeling completely disconnected from your body and unable to move it/your body going slack and lifeless

Losing long periods of time and not knowing what happened within them

feelings of the world being fake, people being impostors, your body not being yours (often doing things to make the world not fake, which can be very dangerous!)

Dissociation caused by something - someone raising their voice, a period of stress, a smell.

Severe dissociation can cause people to appear comatose, affect vision, hearing, smell, and other senses, and freqently have visible outside symptoms: IE, a person suddenly going limp and slumping over for a period of minutes.

People experience a baseline of dissociation. It’s how we get daydreams and déjà vu.

A lot of the posts on here try to make a big deal out of a little amount of dissociation.

Daydreaming, looking blankly at one spot for a few minutes without really thinking of much, your eyes unfocusing when you space out, are all fine functions that your body and brain will do sometimes and are not immediately indicative of a dissociative disorder or a problem with dissociation.

If you do these things constantly, however, it would do you some good to do some casual grounding exercises, practice mindfulness, and get more in tune with your body.

Severe dissociation is more like:

Staring completely unfocused and thinkng of nothing at a random spot for a long period of time (not just in a boring class - spacing out while bored is normal)

Losing control of your appendages, limbs, feeling completely disconnected from your body and unable to move it/your body going slack and lifeless

Losing long periods of time and not knowing what happened within them

feelings of the world being fake, people being impostors, your body not being yours (often doing things to make the world not fake, which can be very dangerous!)

Dissociation caused by something - someone raising their voice, a period of stress, a smell.

Severe dissociation can cause people to appear comatose, affect vision, hearing, smell, and other senses, and freqently have visible outside symptoms: IE, a person suddenly going limp and slumping over for a period of minutes.