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Is it normal to feel completely detached from your life? I was in an abusive situation for a few years, it left me a bit damaged. Among other issues, the most obvious and strangest is that I feel as if I have died. I'm left with a vague recollection of the abuse I endured, but most of my other memories have faded and feel unfamiliar. It feels like I'm living in someone else's skin. My family is foreign to me. The life I had before the abuse is gone.
No matter how hard I try, I can't remember what my personality was like. Right now I'm an empty shell with the personality of bread. I want to undo the damage that has been done, but I don't know where to start. My thoughts are incredibly scattered and really, I just feel lost.
I'm not really looking for advice I guess (since the answer to my problems is likely therapy), I just want to know that I'm not alone. Some form of comfort, something to keep me from killing myself before I'm convinced I've gone insane.
>>17256039
>Is it normal to feel completely detached from your life?
nope.
>I was in an abusive situation for a few years, it left me a bit damaged. Among other issues, the most obvious and strangest is that I feel as if I have died. I'm left with a vague recollection of the abuse I endured, but most of my other memories have faded and feel unfamiliar. It feels like I'm living in someone else's skin. My family is foreign to me. The life I had before the abuse is gone.
cotard's syndrome/derealization.
>I just want to know that I'm not alone.
you're not. it's a pretty common response all things considered.
>>17256044
>cotard's syndrome/derealization
Is the only treatment for this therapy/meds or are there self-help methods that would be effective?
>>17256060
i dont have the biggest sample size, but just trying to willpower mental health issues away usually doesn't really work. you can get to a kind of functional state for a few on your own, ex. eating disorders/body dysmorphia on /fit/, but it usually comes back to bite you in the ass.
>>17256069
Fuck. Well, off to therapy I go.
Do you know if there's any hope as far as recovering my memory goes? My long/short-term memory has gone to shit. I can't remember who my relatives are, or what I ate for breakfast this morning. Are the memories still there, and can be recovered somehow? Or are they lost forever?
>>17256080
that's really out of my field man. but i do know memories are really rarely lost forever without traumatic brain injury. but it sounds like you should really see a doctor, those symptoms sound too severe to just be psychosomatic.
>>17256090
>memories are really rarely lost forever without traumatic brain injury
That's comforting, thanks anon. I'll get myself checked out.
