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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi anyone who’s looking at this. Can you answer some questions for me? Does anyone have a definition of depersonalization disorder? Next question: I have often *really* wanted to be "not-conscious". This means something like wanting to be a character inside whose head I’m not. You know what I mean? Does that sound like depersonalization? Third (and last) question: This goes under a spoiler for SRA, nothing graphic x x xx x x x x x x x My T’pist seemed to say that depersonalization is strongly associating with c*lt pr*gr*mming. That they purposefully try to take away the child’s ssense of self, so she is something like a blank slate, and all this is a preparation for making her believe something impossible, or *mpl*nting an alter. Is that right? Would that mean that anyone who depersonalizes must have had this happen to them? If the answer is yes, this would have serious implications for me, so I’d like to get some opinions and any factual information that anyone can supply. If you can help, email, or post? Thanks bunches, Lionheart (feeling like she’s got one foot in DID and one foot in DIDN’T  :)

Either way, love… …it doesn’t mean you necessarily have been anywhere else except nowhere.  When i was 17 they gave me a depersonalization diagnosis because DID/mpd wasn’t viable. What happened was my System melted down and there was nothing- I wasn’t in a cult, it’s just that my Tribe got lost in the Outback ( I like this appropriation of Aussie sensibility Everyone was gone for a while. But did the pros know DID? Nah! They didn’t know Diddley Depersonalization can be part of cult indoctrination. but it’s part of a process that induces "Pseudo-Personality."  Kind of like an intentionally induced alter by an outside source, rather than an internal defense strategy. (just as your therapist termed it).  I’ll leave actual definitions of depersonalization to those like Discord or Astri or someone who has a better handle than I do on the wonderful world of dissociation. Gosh, I just learned how to do anon stuff. Cindy, Princess of GrrlPetal and the whole Tribe of Cindys — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:

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Lionheart asks: Next question: I have often *really* wanted to be "not-conscious". This

means something like wanting to be a character inside whose head I’m not. You know what I mean? Does that sound like depersonalization? << Yup, yup and I think so… (me)

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Hi anyone who’s looking at this. Can you answer some questions for me? Does anyone have a definition of depersonalization disorder? Next question: I have often *really* wanted to be "not-conscious". This means something like wanting to be a character inside whose head I’m not. You know what I mean? Does that sound like depersonalization? Third (and last) question: This goes under a spoiler for SRA, nothing graphic x x xx x x x x x x x My T’pist seemed to say that depersonalization is strongly associating with c*lt pr*gr*mming. That they purposefully try to take away the child’s ssense of self, so she is something like a blank slate, and all this is a preparation for making her believe something impossible, or *mpl*nting an alter. Is that right? Would that mean that anyone who depersonalizes must have had this happen to them? If the answer is yes, this would have serious implications for me, so I’d like to get some opinions and any factual information that anyone can supply. If you can help, email, or post? Thanks bunches, Lionheart (feeling like she’s got one foot in DID and one foot in DIDN’T  :) — For more information about this service, send e-mail to:

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posted & emailed Hi anyone who’s looking at this. Can you answer some questions for me? Does anyone have a definition of depersonalization disorder?

<looks towards resident ASD’ers with tons of psych knowledge, namely Rainbow Colors and astri a.k.a. pink bunnies….and Peter. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Third (and last) question: This goes under a spoiler for SRA, nothing graphic x x xx x x x x x x x My T’pist seemed to say that depersonalization is strongly associating with c*lt pr*gr*mming. That they purposefully try to take away the child’s ssense of self, so she is something like a blank slate, and all this is a preparation for making her believe something impossible, or *mpl*nting an alter. Is that right? Would that mean that anyone who depersonalizes must have had this happen to them?

While I don’t doubt your t’pist’s assertion that this is deliberately done by c*lts for the reasons listed, I strongly doubt that depersonalization is limited only to those who’ve been RA’d…. just my opinion, but it "does not compute". Perhaps it’s a matter of degree – those not RA’d might depersonalize to a lesser degree, for example. I think I do it, and I’m sure (well, as sure as anyone who has repressed and recovered a memory of ab*se could be) that I have not been RA’d. I hope you will get more definitive replies from the truly knowledgable Lionheart (feeling like she’s got one foot in DID and one foot in DIDN’T  :)

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Hi anyone who’s looking at this. Can you answer some questions for me? Does anyone have a definition of depersonalization disorder?

DSM pg 477, depersonalization disorder: a persistent or recurrent feeling of being detached from one’s mental processes or body that is accompanied by intact reality testing. pg 766, depersonalization: an alteration in the perception or experience of the self so that one feels detached from and as if one is an outside observer of one’s mental processes or body. Next question: I have often *really* wanted to be "not-conscious". This means something like wanting to be a character inside whose head I’m not. You know what I mean? Does that sound like depersonalization?

Not exactly. My thought is that this is close but it’s almost like you _want_ to be depersonalized but you aren’t quite there yet… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Third (and last) question: This goes under a spoiler for SRA, nothing graphic x x xx x x x x x x x My T’pist seemed to say that depersonalization is strongly associating with c*lt pr*gr*mming. That they purposefully try to take away the child’s ssense

Nope, either mis-stated or misunderstood here. Depersonalization can and often is a fairly ‘normal’ reaction to a trance state. People who are shamans report a high incidence of depersonalization, people who have experienced various religious type experiences report it, and people who have been in various things like car accidents report it. THis isn’t to say that c*lts don’t try to get this to happen however. But it is definitely not an indication of programming or anything. of self, so she is something like a blank slate, and all this is a preparation for making her believe something impossible, or *mpl*nting an alter. Is that right? Would that mean that anyone who depersonalizes must have had this happen to them?

Definitely not! This just indicates that the person is capable of entering this type of trance state. I’ve never had any experience with c*lt pr*gr*mming and my ‘normal’ state is extremely depersonalized. People who are autistic also indicate this as well. If the answer is yes, this would have serious implications for me, so I’d like to get some opinions and any factual information that anyone can supply. If you can help, email, or post? Thanks bunches, Lionheart (feeling like she’s got one foot in DID and one foot in DIDN’T  :)

Sounds like an example of someone overgeneralizing or misinterpreting stuff. Don’t worry. Just cause you are depersonalized doesn’t even mean you had a traumatic past! Remember, dissociation is on a continuum and the act of depersonalization is just one more point on that spectrum. It’s only when it gets in your way that it’s even considered a disorder! Rainbow Colors (Jill) —      I am in the process of becoming, so this space is blank.

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