tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post1328706886240734204..comments2024-03-01T03:37:20.420-05:00Comments on I'M SOMEWHERE ELSE: I wanted to tell you thisAmanda Foresthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04200794053287551087noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-70505825712024424622010-03-04T20:09:40.289-05:002010-03-04T20:09:40.289-05:00is it different from anxiety attacks? When I was i...is it different from anxiety attacks? When I was in college I went through a period where I was very alone & stressed out and I would have anxiety attacks where my vision would get "funny" and I would have to poke myself or say multiplication tables to try to stop feeling depersonalized(I have ASD, btw). Hope you feel better--depression is hard to deal with.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02497968369104718208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-62842672504708021432010-03-04T12:40:35.324-05:002010-03-04T12:40:35.324-05:00This sounds like nothing I understand. For that re...This sounds like nothing I understand. For that reason, I'm so glad you wrote about it.<br /><br />I really enjoy reading you blog. Thanks.John Lighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06550598929886110764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-38102164177428630942010-03-04T09:32:44.908-05:002010-03-04T09:32:44.908-05:00I just wanted to let you know I love reading your ...I just wanted to let you know I love reading your blog. I have major depressive disorder and I have had weird feelings like this sometimes. You express yourself in writing so beautifully. Take care of yourself!!! =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466691337834051176.post-30046891411129353152010-03-04T01:55:39.116-05:002010-03-04T01:55:39.116-05:00This is a really good explanation and expression o...This is a really good explanation and expression of the depersonalisation/derealisation phenomenon.<br /><br />(Depersonalisation is the third most common symptom, right after anxiety and depression).<br /><br />Someone named Janine Burke created a Web community which I started visiting around the end of 2004-beginning of 2005.<br /><br />We would call it displacement and the compression effect.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/" rel="nofollow">Here is the DP Self-Help forum</a><br /><br />My main memory of the forum is this guy named Matthew being ticked off for "black and white thinking".<br /><br /><a href="http://www.depersonalization.info/overview.html" rel="nofollow">Depersonalisation Info</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dreamchild.net/" rel="nofollow">Dreamchild.net: I think I linked to this long ago (circa 2006)</a><br /><br />The last paragraph is terrific.<br /><br />Noah saw the workload, and then the hidden workload.<br /><br />Watch that cortisol!<br /><br />Those were some of the things which put me into the mood/psychotic spectrum some four years ago now.<br /><br />There's a suggestion in Wikipedia about hypo-emotionality in the visual sense. The perception of how emotions become coloured.Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com