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Blank stare?

Postby Auxiliary11 » Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:32 am

Hey. So to keep it short, for the past few years I've been experiencing dp/dr but mainly dr. There have been several times where someone has brought up my blank, wide-eyed stare, mainly teachers/lecturers but also friends. Right now I'm in college (UK) and I understand this disorder mainly effects college students/people going into adulthood.

I also have a 'restricted affect', which sometimes turns into a 'blunted affect' when I'm feeling more spacey. Only several conditions come to mind in this case: absence seizures in epilepsy (or perhaps partial seizures); early sign of schizophrenia; DP disorder; severe depression or some form of dissociation such as in PTSD. The only ones I'm considering is schizophrenia and DP disorder. I considered temporal lobe epilepsy and I wanna get an EEG soon, but given that I space out dozens of times a day I feel it's more than that. If this is the case then simple-partial seizures would fit the closest, given that I'm still semi-responsive to whats going on around me.

The reason I mentioned scz. is due to the fact that I've been showing many other early signs of it too (based on articles on the net), should I be worried? I mean if I'm gonna get it there's nothing I can do but as far as I know nobody in my family is scz.

Right now I'm spacing out hard, I'm experiencing Teleopsia & Macropsia. My hands look tiny and my laptop seems so large and far away -- hell I feel like a child sitting in an adult chair. If I reach out my hand it feels like it could go on forever before it reaches it's target. It usually happens when I bring attention to my dp/dr. I took one of those online tests for DP disorder but it said I didn't have it bad enough, so what's wrong with me? Where do I start?
self dx. pdd-nos (level 1); covert narcissism w/ avoidant traits; social phobia; inertia.

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Re: Blank stare?

Postby ShawTrav » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:28 pm

Start by finding a therapist that can help you answer these questions. If you cnan that is, find one that you can afford etc.
JT- The Original. N/A yrs. old
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Sophie- Creative little, slider age 6ish-17ish
Tyler- What do I do? Get into trouble. He's 17
Five others that don't talk on here. Perhaps one day.
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Re: Blank stare?

Postby dabading » Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:37 pm

Yeah i have the blank stare too. My eyes always have dark rings around them and i feel like i have to deliberately make my eyes show some sort of expression, if i didnt do this everyone would be getting the blank stare. It really looks like nobody is home
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