Posted by Christ_empowered on May 15, 2011, at 12:28:13
In reply to Re: I think I have PTSD, posted by Christ_empowered on May 14, 2011, at 21:28:11
hey. Dissociation was, to me, a "spacing out" from my own mental processes. The so-called "dissociative features" in my "manic episode" got more intense as the psychosis and agitation increased. I think it allowed me to at least go to school (I was in college at the time) and get a bit done.
I was spaced out/dissociative to the point that when I got mugged and was hit on the head with a pipe, I barely even felt it. I just walked away (a car came and my attackers ran off), went into a gas station, got a Gatorade, and then the (understandably freaked out) clerk called an ambulance. Emotionally, the whole thing didn't really register; after I was discharged from the hospital, I just walked around town, covered in blood, until I was sedated and put into a mental hospital.
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