That's interesting, I noticed the opposite in my case. When I had episodes with more DPDR it was usually after or during a time that was more favorable for daydreaming, like being alone for a whole weekend, free to think about what I wanted.
Harnessing neuroplasticity to defeat dissociative symptoms
This is a slide from my uni lecture this week:
I wonder if these principles of neurological change apply to internal states of being, not just behaviour. Can I think my way out of my most troubling trauma symptoms - deaffectualisation and desomatisation - by simply imagining these symptoms easing off and my body reanimating itself once more?
Well, I'm going to give it a try, and maybe it might help others here to try it too. Several times a day, imagine yourself with your former capacities again. That's how I'm doing it.
I've just stuck the slide to my fridge and wall so I remember to practice this.
I wonder if these principles of neurological change apply to internal states of being, not just behaviour. Can I think my way out of my most troubling trauma symptoms - deaffectualisation and desomatisation - by simply imagining these symptoms easing off and my body reanimating itself once more?
Well, I'm going to give it a try, and maybe it might help others here to try it too. Several times a day, imagine yourself with your former capacities again. That's how I'm doing it.
I've just stuck the slide to my fridge and wall so I remember to practice this.
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It was not about horror scenarios but it was naturaly going toward analyzing stuff that seemed interesting at that moment, without causing any specific emotions. But it makes sense, I have never really had blank mind I think, and it makes sense that day dreaming would go against blank mind.Maybe we experience different symtoms of DP, where yours are more towards existential thoughts and horror scenarios (correct me if I'm wrong, ofc). In that case I can totally understand how daydreaming can easily spin off into something making the DP even more challenging.
My symtoms are more towards blank mind and lack of cognition, so I try to exercise my imagination in any way I can
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