Personality Disorders Support Group

Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.

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SarahZee 07/02/2009

it's been happening everyday for a week. i don't exactly know why it's happening, it just kind of is.

it's really quite annoying. it's so hard to function like that because everything feels so weird.and i also regress into a little five year old girl sometimes. if i'm scared or if i'm extremely sad.
it's so embarrassing and i have to like be really careful about it or people think i'm insane.

that seems to get worse the more dissociated i am.
i don't want to have to worry about what is going to happen when i'm hanging out with someone. especially when it's one of my boyfriend's friends who doesn't know what's going on with me.
it really sucks.
i can't hang out with people anymore. except my boyfriend.

deleted_user 07/02/2009

Have you learned mindfulness techniques? It might help keep you grounded and curb some of the disassociation.

SarahZee 07/02/2009

are you talking about the think about breathing and pick a shape and color shit?
haha i think that's what my therapist was talking about.
i don't like that.
but i do like meditating, i just have a hard time relaxing.

i don't really know why it's happening though.

deleted_user 07/02/2009

I do not know if this helps. I have a little girl (2-1/2 years old) who comes out every once in a while and I start mothering her. I am pretty sure when she appears. One way that help me understand that she was there was actually going inside my mind and finding her and comforting and talking to her when she was not acting out. I help her deal with her past pain and the pain she has now as an abandoned little girl. Now we are partners and do things together and talk freely (of course in the privacy of my room) but that has helped me. I have also named my little girl so it keeps the players straight. I do not know if that helps but it is the way I cope and live in the real world.

SarahZee 07/02/2009

i will try to do that.
i don't exactly know how though.
but i will work on it.
thank you.

deleted_user 07/02/2009

It's about breathing, sensing, perceiving, just focusing on your senses basically. It helps keep me connected to the here and now.

SarahZee 07/02/2009

i'm really bad at that. hha

deleted_user 07/03/2009

Well if you are struggling with it then maybe that is what you don't like it and why you keep disassociating. It's hard to drift off to another world if you are entrenched in the present. I'm going to be taking a 10 week mindfulness course.

deleted_user 07/08/2009

slap yourself across the face when that happens. That should bring you back to reality.

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