It isn't from benzo withdrawal. In psychiatric terms it is called primary process regression. From what i understand from tlaking to Janine, and I am no expert, in DP states our minds exist in reality, but some aspects of our functioning retreat into the dream centers of our minds. This is why we can function normally, but we feel like we are in a dream. As such, we get horrible memories from years ago. Memories of random people, things, dreams and events we would have otherwise never thought about again. We feel like we are sort of reliving earlier time of our life. I find this the most troubling and frightening symptom of this illness. I don't know exactly why the brain does this, or what it is looking for. If I were to guess, it is the brain's way of purging out the trauma we have stuffed away into our subconscious when we were younger. Trauma we dissociated from earlier on in life. By the brain "revisiting" these random memories, and making the sufferer conscious of them, it creates a highly emotional response within us. I think we need to grieve these and hopefully heal from them.
Do these memories make you feel emotional? Do they provoke an emotional response of either sadness or anxiety?
I get the music thing too. The music at times seems too intense, like it punches me right in my emotional core. It's really wierd.
Ken
Do these memories make you feel emotional? Do they provoke an emotional response of either sadness or anxiety?
I get the music thing too. The music at times seems too intense, like it punches me right in my emotional core. It's really wierd.
Ken
