I must have associated - is what I told my phone to put!!

Not sure I am understanding you, cj... Mult. Pers = multiple personalities?

Please be patient with me. I can be a bit thick sometimes...

You sre not thick... hard to put in title...repeat I was the one not clear and yes you have it right.,,,,

Multiple personalities is not on my long list of personal problems, but yes, I used to dissociate like a bad dog. When I dissociated, the entire world seemed to be at the other end of a very long tunnel. Typically, I could not bring myself back from it. I just had to wait for it to pass. It was a terrifying experience.

Knock wood and through some salt over my shoulder... It has not happened to me in quite a few years. Maybe even decades. Score keeping is not my strong suit. I still do mild dissociation, but now it is more like tuning out. I can come back from with relative ease.

Sorry phone did it twice and I am working on little sleep for two nights. Disassociate.

You don't have to have other personalities to do stuff you don't remember.
(I mean, we in here find it sure helps, but...)

Multiple personalities is a HIGHLY contested dx. Some do not accept it as real...

Yes, I've dissociated. Sometimes, it's just that I've zoned out and kind of went to a happy place in my head. Well, not "happy" so much- just that I'd take my full self out of the situation so whatever was happening wouldn't really affect me.

I've also had rage fits where I didn't fully recall everything that happened. Kind of like being on auto pilot...

"Some do not accept it as real..."

Some people don't believe repressed memories are real.
Like a Harvard Neuroscience professor who's teaching all his fricking students that. Never mind there's a lot of documented evidence to show that he's incorrect.

We know we're real, and several of my kids in here are feeling a bit invalidated ATM.

That doesn't mean Cjpfaz is DID or has alters, though...On that we have no data to make a conclusion.

...Just to make perfectly clear to the OP and everyone we're not implying that.
Merely expressing that our collective nose was put slightly out of joint.

I guess as far as it goes for me, most of the tiime I dissociate I remember and I am age of around 7 to 10 but I am in the current time. Another parts or time I do not remember my mind just shuts down I thought until this week., when I thought about it. It does not seem to happen around others, except one night when two people close to me called during the first time it happened in the spring.

yes guess I am ...never had this until spring

thanks, been working with Pdoctor 25 years, will talk to him and therapist to see what they think...thanks...

I didn't mean any disrespect about the MPD comment I made. Here's a link to the basic debate. You may find it helpful:
http://www.elementsbehavioralhealth.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder/

I think a lot of damage was done when a very high profile case was turned into a book and then it came out that the author/therapist manipulated the data for her financial gain. Kind of put the kibosh on the the whole dx.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141514464/real-sybil-admits-multiple-personalities-were-fake

I much prefer the DID label instead. I think many of us dissociate. But rather than making up full personalities, they are "just" altered states we carved for ourselves to cope. Not nearly as sexy as MPD, though.

There's also a great link I posted previously about false repressed memories. I'm not saying that most memories are false, just that it CAN happen, especially if the memories have to be coaxed out by hypnotherapy. It's one thing to have something trigger a repressed memory. But sometimes, well-meaning therapists lead the patient to create something that may never have happened. That's not to discredit people, though, who do remember things long buried in their psyches.

That's all I meant. Sorry if I came off as flippant.

I possibly would've had alternates, as I call them--- alternate internal Identities who filed in when my core Me had to dissociate to survive --- but I turned to writing instead and put a lot of that into the writing. So I'm a signle personality coherent and so on---but I've dissociated. Badly enough that I remember it all like I'm feeling it through jello---- and I had repressed memories. I was skeptical of the phenomenon until my own recall was recovered, and whammo. Cue "I'm a Believer"....

I think the kind of extreme MPD stuff Hollywood churns out is BS, but that doesn't make it not real or not a problem, that's for sure.

I have no idea what I'm saying, sorry, just know I'm supporting you and hoping for your healing, CJP.

I like the way u put it Leo