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Postby LuckyLlama3696 » Tue Jun 19, 2018 8:27 pm

I'm experiencing something that I can only describe as time displacement. Those aren't even the right words, but I don't have any words to describe this. I seem to have lost the ability to connect connect yesterday to today, and the ability to connect today to tomorrow. I'm aware that yesterday and tomorrow exist, but only in the same way that I'm aware that China exist; I know it's real, but I've never been there and I'm not likely to ever go there.

I know some people can experience short term memory loss during intense episodes, but I've never heard of anything like this. Trying to remember yesterday is like trying to peer through a fog, and trying to imagine tomorrow is even more difficult.

Has anyone else ever experienced this? And if so, what were you able to do about it, because frankly, it's pretty horrifying.
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Re: Time Displacement

Postby goaskmyalias » Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:53 pm

This happens to me all the time when i'm manic. The more days I've been up, the more pronounced it becomes. I just roll along in a perpetual fog of chaos/jumbledness. My reality makes sense. It just has zero to do with time or anything else particularly. I figure it's because my internal world and my perceptions are moving at a pace that has nothing to do with the pace that everyone else's moves at. I never have any clue what day/time it is and I can not sense the passage of time. It does not matter. Except when other people yell at me about it.
I suppose maybe this used to bother me. Only really because I got yelled at for it. Then I realized it was wholly and utterly beyond my control. So i stopped worrying about it. I decided the concept of time was completely overrated and not necessary. Now when it happens, it happens and i just exist.
I am not sure if this is helpful in any fashion beyond that of letting you know that you are not the only one that this happens to. For what it's worth, my ex who is schizoaffective, experiences this also. (I am bipolar 1/psychotic features) I have friends who are schizophrenic that also go through this.
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Re: Time Displacement

Postby user76290 » Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:03 am

Hallucinations. Get them every year. About a month long medicated. Stopped taking medication 2 years ago and went manic for 6 months straight. I don't remember two months complete blackout. When it went full-blown towards the end before I had to get put on antipsychotics again this is what happened. This was for about 2 weeks fully manic. I would hear people screaming. I would hear music playing. I would hear my phone ring. Lot of sounds that weren't there. Everything would be moving extremely slow. Almost like my brain was turned a hundred percent down. I had trouble cooking dinner. Couldn't do simple tasks. Was completely delusional. The time thing is a sign of psychosis. Your memory will come back man it just takes a long time. Took me a year after my episode before I was halfway normal again. Caused a lot of brain damage during this one. When you go into these episodes it will ###$ your memory up bad. I went un medicated for 15 years so my memory is completely shot. Plus I was a heavy alcoholic. If you stay on medication and prevent psychosis and Mania your memory actually improves. At least that's my experience. Just takes a long time and it will come back slowly. Hypomania everything is moving really fast. You feel like you're moving really fast and can do anything. Full psychosis to me everything slows down. To the point where it doesn't even look like anything's really moving or time is even ticking. Lots of confusion. That's how it goes with me.
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