#derealization disorder

[bl0w-m3]

Does anybody else dissociate so hard you feel drunk.

Can’t see straight, can’t balance, can’t focus my eyes, can’t think clearly, speak slower.

[fractalsuggestions]

this is a little self-indulgent but i love colors and designs, so...

here's my take on a DPDR (depersonalization-derealization disorder) flag

here are the stripes, top to bottom:

blue- community & overcoming isolation

green- grounding & recovery

yellow- depersonalization

white- general feeling of disconnect, with a white square in the center for a feeling of "something missing"

light blue- derealization

gray- general dissociation/combined depersonalization+derealization

black- loss of time/emotion/opportunities

there's sort of 3 sections of the flag: the center represents symptoms of the disorder itself, the bottom represents the negative outcomes of those symptoms, and the top represents recovery and connection and understanding among people who share this disorder

there's already an existing DPDR flag, but I really wanted to make one that included stripe meanings. the existing one mostly just has colors taken from the cloudgender flag, which as a neurogender related to DPDR is certainly relevant, but i wanted to make one that wasn't derivative of that seeing as not every person with DPDR is cloudgender (for example, me)

the original DPDR flag is perfectly fine! as I said this is a bit of a self-indulgent thing and i honestly thought of this design before checking if there was an existing flag. link to the original flag will be posted in a reblog!

[mischiefmanifold]

reminder that dissociation is a spectrum and that dissociation in and of itself is not necessarily a symptom of an illness

it’s when the dissociation gets to the point where it’s interfering with daily life that it may be a symptom of something more

dissociation ranges from

“zoning out” (for example, during a car ride or when bored in class)

to

dissociative disorders like DID

[divaricca]

I am often so caught up in my mental world that I often space out. I need to connect more with my physicality. I have to live life more than contemplate it.

[bigtasty]

my brain at sunset: it is TOO YELLOW IN HERE YOU MUST FREAK OUT AND NOW IT'S THE FUCKING APOCOLOPSE

[riccadeluca]

... I reject my fears, I don't feel like being afraid anymore.

[mogai-headcanons]

Herobrine from Minecraft is a pan gay luminian foggender trans man with C-PTSD and derealization disorder who’s dating Steve, an autistic pansexual agender person who uses he/him pronouns, and Alex, a bisexual genderfluid person who uses all pronouns!

dni transcript here