[odin]

hey i'm just wondering if there is a link between dp/dr and playing a lot of video games throughout your whole life? :?: :?:

 

[Guest]

Interesting question. Maybe there is a link between dp/dr by spending alot of time in your head / by yourself in the sense just isolated on the computer reading a book or playing video games.

Maybe this has made easier for us then more social people to get dp/dr.

 

[Da'Burgh]

Sure is a good question but I probably don't find any link to it besides the fact that you are more susceptable to becoming dp/dr'd because your so used to being dissociated. Everyone in this world is dissociated at a time during the day. That is why distraction helps because that isn't uncomfortable and unnecessary dissociation. That's when your letting yourself breathe!! You're not monitoring yourself and you're letting it go because you feel comfortable. When your ingulfed in something, your dissociated. But when you are paying so much attention to yourself you become almost permenently dissociated in a sense. (Which DP/DR are NOT permenent.)

We can do this. It just takes time and practice coping just like anything in life.

 

[falling_free]

Yeh Ive been a video game addict since I was about 10 years old, used to play a lot of N64 games, but not just on my own, used to play a lot of multiplayer games on goldeneye and perfect dark, spent the better part of 5 years blasting about on multiplayer. goldeneye was classic.

Video games have not caused or worsened my disssociation though , if anything they were just a fun blast around to releive the stresses of the day. though these days I don't get the same enjoyment out of them (or anything for that matter).

 

[Inflammed]

Playing more than 1 hour of video games make my DR so much worse.
It can even triggers it, like movies and everything that involves a flat 2D screen...
No wonder why we see things in 2D and dull somtimes...

I don't beleive it caused it, it only triggers it once you have it.

 

[mulder]

I've certainly had problems with compters and DR. Playing the PS2 for an hour or so requires me to ground myself afterwards. I was going through a stage of playing the GTA games all the time, and after about 3 days of that, I started seeing the world as if it was one of those games. People almost seemed as if they were walking around like the characters in the games, very stiff and a bit slow motion. Strange. It goes away when you stop playing the games so much though.

Also, I find a screen filled with thin lines, a feature used by some emulators to emulate the scan lines on a tv, makes me feel like I'm going cross-eyed and it kinda gives me a headache too.

 

[odin]

i really dont think it does anything but make me less social when i am playing it for a long time but i don't think that it causes dr or dp.

 

[halcyon]

xbox is one of the only forms of relief for me!

 

[Brainsilence02]

I have a friend. He was been playing video games since he was 5, he is no 22. He never had problems with sociality. He is very social, very happy with his life, he had some relations (girls).

I asked him about some symptoms of mine and other peoples' (taken from here) and he responded negetively to all.

I, personally, think that it is not video games that take (som of) us inside the "zone", nor they trigger it. Instead, I believe, that the video games perhaps make it clear that something is wrong.

Looking a video game you suddenly realize the difference and it becomes clear that there is something wrong in the real world. Playing a video game for someone with DP/DR could be a chance ("chance" in a negetive way) to understand/see that he/she has DP/DR.

Anyone playing Doom (1993-2004), Quake (1999), Wolfenstein (1992-2001) game series?

 

[Da'Burgh]

Just like I said, this is a natural form of dissociation, just like normal anxiety. We are experiencing abnormal dissociation from (90% of us) having excessive anxiety. I put myself into consideration because I also like to play video games. I was simply stating a theory that people that are often dissociated may have a higher chance of becoming DP'ed or DR'ed in high, long term anxiety states.

 

[falling_free]

Just like I said, this is a natural form of dissociation, just like normal anxiety. We are experiencing abnormal dissociation from (90% of us) having excessive anxiety. I put myself into consideration because I also like to play video games. I was simply stating a theory that people that are often dissociated may have a higher chance of becoming DP'ed or DR'ed in high, long term anxiety states.

Good point, I think that maybe I should have spent a little more time outdoors and socialising when I was younger isntead of playing on computer games a lot of the time, It may well have stunted my emotional and social develpment in some way.

 

[Da'Burgh]

I sometimes feel the same way; I was usually active but also loved my alone time to get lost in a game.