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Disassociating & feeling numb

Reddragon84

I feel numb, I feel nothing - Its Christmas Eve and for the first time ever I feel NOTHING but numbness - thanks to my therapist yesterday I now know that Ive been "disassociating" badly - and have been for 2 months now - a mixture of overwhelming stress and still grieving my Dog - I feel indifferent to everything - It keeps making me feel that nobody else is "real" - I keep going driving on my own and "zoning out"  Did I hit anybody? Did I go through red lights? - Ive been on "auto pilot" since before Halloween - My therapist told me that Ive actually "checked out" from reality through overwhelming stress & grief that my Autistic brain cant cope with. - in town yesterday nobody felt "real", I felt I was walking among thousands of "ghosts" - Therapist said disassociation either feels like your surroundings arent "real" or that other people arent "real" or a mixture of both. For 2 months now Ive felt like this - I need to get "back" somehow. :/

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  • The only way to stop dissociation is to sleep and not analyse. Sleep clears the brain. Stop doing things and thinking about things and do nothing. Avoid everything. The less you do the quicker it will start to improve.

    sorry if this is the wrong response 

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    I'm sleeping a lot,  but Im stuck in disassociation - My Autistic brain shut down on the evening of Wednesday, the 29th of October - and Its been emotional "death" ever since - I put my dog down in June, I was thinking about him on that Wednesday evening in October and  my brain instantly went "ping" and "disappeared" - I dont want to jinx it but I might be feeling "better" this evening.

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    I'm sleeping a lot,  but Im stuck in disassociation - My Autistic brain shut down on the evening of Wednesday, the 29th of October - and Its been emotional "death" ever since - I put my dog down in June, I was thinking about him on that Wednesday evening in October and  my brain instantly went "ping" and "disappeared" - I dont want to jinx it but I might be feeling "better" this evening.

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