BPD Symptoms: Dissociation

In this video I'll be talking about the ninth BPD symptom: dissociation.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Dissociation Explained
1:26 Adaptive Function of Dissociation
2:26 Memory Lost
3:16 Depersonalization
4:15 Derealization
5:10 Identity Confusion/Alteration
5:58 How to Help?
6:29 Grounding Exercises
8:31 Awareness of Triggers
8:55 Radical Acceptance
9:45 Outro

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[wiyxgyo]

The dissociative amnesia can be really unsettling, because you begin to think that you can’t trust your memories. Like if someone is hit by a car by near where I park my car, I legitimately wonder if I hit them. That’s not rational thinking, and I know that, but I might even begin to remember hitting something getting out of the car and not seeing anything in the road. That memory might have been of hitting a pothole there or even somewhere else at another time but, because of that, I will go check my car for damage. Not finding any, I will go find out who got hit and by who, and I’ll find out it happened on a weekend when I wasn’t there and the person who hit them had turned themselves in.

[MD-zyoq]

I relate to this so much . Before I knew I had bpd, or had even heard of it before, I would describe my past as "like a book I read or movie I watched", like its familiar but not mine and I have pretty much no memory of my childhood at all. I moved alot, every school grade year, and even once to another country. And yet I don't remember the process of actually moving once. I don't remember any first day anywhere, having been aware of a recent or upcoming move, what my bedroom or home looked like, my friends, teachers, school, even what my parents were like. It's Ben so hard trying to heal from a childhood I have literally no memory of.

Also, Idk if it's bpd related but can I NOT drink alcohol. I will black out every single time without fail, become a totally different person, and do scary, dangerous, totally out of character things.. im lucky to be alive honeslty

[rkvclaw]

This information is really helping me, thank you to those youtubers like you who are keeping people informed.

I was recently diagnosed with BPD and im 22 now, been staying away from relationships for 4 years to focus on my mental health, one hell of a bumpy road but im getting through it. But it is making me question myself a lot more

[silviacortez]

Omg this is me !! Depersonalization and derealization is so bad due to my bpd and my episodes last awhile even months it sucks ! 😢

[jo-anneashford]

What if you don't know when you are dissociating? I dissociate without knowing and only find out after the fact because I don't remember

[silviacortez]

Sometimes I am not even having an episode from BPD but the dissociation such as depersonalization and derealization is still there I would love to know more knowledge about that.

[Crocodonkey]

My main issue is that sense of longing or emptiness in me. Thank you for the information you share 🤍🌹🙏

[Nicki-eyux]

I have a BPD and anxiety and depression and PTSD

[achyleftistwitch]

I don't know if I ever did before, but when I was 10 and my mom passed aeay i started dissociating pretty much all of the time. Espexially at school. I read a lot so everything started being narrated in my head. It would get in the way of things like remembering my lunch number at school and it would hold up the line as a specific example.

To ground I do an incense ritual. I know it's not the best, but vaping also grounds me because the air tastes good and then there's a cloud and i can see the impact of my breath.

[kendreyer]

Do you have any tips/tactics to deal with paranoia?

[tanishamajumdar]

Thank you so much Kayla! I disassociate a lot. And it is good to know that grounding techniques don't work on the first try and you need to keep trying to see the results. Hope you are doing good. :)

[an.autistic.person]

I'm unsure if I've dissociated so I'm trying to learn about it from different perspectives. Memory loss definitely sounds familiar. Like I'll be talking with my wife in the kitchen and notice I'm holding a dish cloth and have no idea when I picked it up. Or I'll suddenly find myself in my bedroom when I was hanging out in the living room and not remember going to my room. I never knew why but "dissociation" seems to be a good explanation.

[georgieeve]

Thank you 🙂 I like the lemon idea, I haven't heard of that one before.
Hi 🐈 😍

[KALSKingdom]

Is it possible to experience more than one type of dissociation with BPD? I find myself struggling with really bad memory loss & also depersonalization. I've also struggled A LOT with stress-related paranoia.

[SweetFaeRee]

I dissociate a lot, mostly derealisation - i didn't even know that was what it is until recently, I honestly thought everyone felt like this. I do it badly when it's busy at work - everything feels fuzzy and zoomed in and 'floaty' idk how to explain it.

[chosennotforsaken]

Hi - do you think a BPD to BPD relationship works?

I love your videos. Thank you so much ❤

[hellofwinnie]

I'm dissosiated from early childhood, don't really understand why smb would want to stop dr/dp 🤔

[seanmichael]

Holy shit the color thing!! I have partial colo blindness inhave always thought I was crazy explaining to people it is only some colors and some things usually fall. But overall I feel I see colors as they are.. I’ve been living in disassociation for many many years of my life. This might explain some years being less affected than others. First I’ve ever heard of that being something.

[charlesbromberick]

Most girls with BPD have multiple cats and tatoos. They are also "beautiful, intelligent and breathtakingly tender" - not my words, but I wholely agree.

[wiyxgyo]

For me sometimes everything looks like I have really dark sunglasses on. The colors are vivid, but I also feel like everything is simultaneously black.