Tillogram

[Shaz51]

Hello and hugs @Till23 , @tyme , @AuntGlow , @Appleblossom , @Oaktree 

[tyme]

Hey @Till23 , You okay? I'm here. @AuntGlow is over on SANE's recovery groups service at the moment.

[Till23]

Thanks @tyme it is not a well known condition, and a condition that is sometimes denied by some clinicians.

The lower end is well accepted and is pretty much accepted by everyone.

At the lower end this includes daydreaming and and automatic things, such as driving along arriving at destination, but not remembering the trip. Because you're so used to driving you did it automatically and you've been thinking about other things and not concentrating on surrounds. That's common and virtual everyone experiences it, so well accepted.

Anyhow I am ok currently.

[Till23]

Thanks @Shaz51 how are you going?

[tyme]

I find your post very interesting @Till23 . 

I can totally relate to the absent-mindedness/dissociation... that's very normal for me, but more related to ADD.

I have looked at research into DID and I read that often because of extreme trauma.

[Till23]

Oh ok @tyme you Peer Workers are busy, busy, busy!

Is SANE's recovery groups service - where you have those 1hr group interactive webinar type things? I've been to a couple before.

Yeah I am OK enough thanks - very flat and dimished cognitive and physical function but it's raining and cold, so can't do a lot of physical things anyhow!  Anyhow that's life!

[tyme]

Yes, the Recovery Groups - the 1 hour sessions. We work across the various services. I've worked across all. It's a really good experience @Till23 - but still, I live and breathe the forums. I find that written comminication is my strength.

[Till23]

Thanks @tyme I suppose I like teaching and I like to raise awareness of little known or understood conditions and just raise health awareness in general.

I'm not really absent minded - but ask me in a few years when I get older 😂. But in ADD it's a different mechanism, but maybe has some similar effects.

I am sorry that you have experienced extreme trauma. That is the kind of background that most commonly underlies DID, usually needs to be long-term and inescapable - like continually living in an abusive situation. 

Hope you are ok currently and my posts have not triggered any negative responses in you and others

[tyme]

Hey @Till23 ,

Thank you for being so thoughtful.

I can't go as far as sharing I have 'extreme' trauma even though some people may think what I went through was pretty bad. So no, there was nothing triggering about your posts at all.

I think I've suppressed a lot of painful things, and for now, my triggers are more the minor things e.g. 000 sirens! But I've been working on this for a few years and it's getting much better.

[Shaz51]

@tyme , @Till23 

Sitting with you 💕 

Can't believe it was 11 degrees here last night,  unbelievable 

And sunny day today 

Very tired. Lots of aches and pains tonight,  and foot pain during the day