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by cpt1138 2657 days ago
"Dissociation is a vague psychiatric symptom where you feel like you’re not real, or the world isn’t real, or you’re detached from the world, or something like that. It sounds weird, but if you explain it to someone who’s had it, they’ll say “Oh yeah, that thing!” It’s usually unpleasant, and tends to occur in PTSD, borderline personality, and extreme stress."

That really spoke to me. I have very bad allergies and as the doctor was trying things to help me out I spent about 3 months on Singulair. I had severe disassociation. It was very unpleasant and I stopped it. But yeah, that thing.

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So that's what that is. Know the feeling.
it happened to me once in high school after smoking weed and lasted for atleast a week. i’m glad it didn’t stay