Posted by fairywings on July 24, 2005, at 11:31:46
In reply to Re: Feeling Threatened *might trigger* » fairywings, posted by Dinah on July 24, 2005, at 9:41:36
> Dissociating is *not* schizophrenic, and I'm surprised your therapist thought so.
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> It's a natural human coping mechanism that some people tend to overuse once they find it works. Sometimes they overuse it to the point that it becomes a problem in their lives. When that happens, it's helpful to work on it in therapy.
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> What he *might* have meant is that certain personality disorders like schizoid and schizotypal may arguably use dissociation of the feelings to excess.Thanks Dinah,
My husband thinks he was intentionally trying to trigger me, to get me to react to him, to express my feelings.
Isn't dissociating kind of splitting, separating yourself from your feelings, developing alternate selves to deal with pain? I don't do any of that. I can't separate from my feelings in any way, and I don't have other selves - like a younger self or anything.
Maybe I don't fully understand the concept of dissociation. I've looked it up, but I don't think it applies to me.
FW/Jazzy
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