Feeling weird when maybe switching

I have tried to search through the forums but couldn't find anything like this. Before I knew I had DID I would fall to the ground without warning. They would take my vitals right after (I was in residential treatment for an eating disorder) and I was fine but my head felt funny.

I still get that way sometimes I just don't fall. I'll feel really funny and my head will be all light and stuff. I'll also feel all wobbly. Sometimes the ceiling will feel closer and then everything seems to change perspective. It's like I'm looking at it different. Like from a higher or lower height or from just my left eye or just my right eye.

My therapist isn't a DID specialist so she doesn't know why but I wonder if this is when one of my alters is trying to pop out or I'm switching and they are coming out too. I'm somewhat coconscious but sometimes I'm not aware when someone is out with me. My therapist also suggested maybe seizures. I don't know. Has anyone ever felt like this before when switching?

Yes. I usually feel lightheaded and objects around me will look closer or further away when I switch or someone is trying to front. Sometimes I will be aware of what the alter is doing but sometimes I won't and my memory will be fuzzy about the events. I just had a switch with Jeremy and I don't remember everything that happened when he was out. Just bits and pieces.

do you have any sort of anxiety disorder? o: what you describe sounds an awful lot like what happens to us when we have a panic attack! do the lights around you ever look fuzzy, sorta like when a tv station goes snowy and theres little black and white dots everywhere? that doesnt always happen but our worse ones it usually does and it get difficult to breath too then we get dizzy and light headed and have fallen before due to them. it could be a panic attack brought on by a switch, that's happened to us before too, especially when it happens in a really inconvenient place (we switched to a little in the middle of class one time and they had to call the nurse for us cuz she passed out from shock of being surrounded by teenagers - yikes). it could also just be really intense switching, not sure!
-lizzy

-- Wed Dec 24, 2014 2:31 am --

do you have any sort of anxiety disorder? o: what you describe sounds an awful lot like what happens to us when we have a panic attack! do the lights around you ever look fuzzy, sorta like when a tv station goes snowy and theres little black and white dots everywhere? that doesnt always happen but our worse ones it usually does and it get difficult to breath too then we get dizzy and light headed and have fallen before due to them. it could be a panic attack brought on by a switch, that's happened to us before too, especially when it happens in a really inconvenient place (we switched to a little in the middle of class one time and they had to call the nurse for us cuz she passed out from shock of being surrounded by teenagers - yikes). it could also just be really intense switching, not sure!
-lizzy

Here are a couple of relevant threads:
http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic151264.html
http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic84863.html

Welcome to the forum! I hope you learn a lot here and benefit from the experience.

Thanks everyone so much. I read what you wrote and then looked at the links. I also spoke to my psychiatrist about it today. I hadn't planned on that because I was afraid that he wouldn't take me seriously but since it seemed like other people had experienced similar things I wasn't as afraid. He thinks it's auras that happen when I'm really anxious before dissociating or switching. So basically what you guys suggested.
Thanks for replying to my post and giving me the courage to ask my psych.
-K (host)