So i've had 3 specific symptoms of my DP/DR diagnosis for about 2.5 years now that I havent heard of anyone else experiencing, so thought i'd ask on here to see if anyone has had a similar experience!!
The first is a kind of "alien hand syndrome" in which i will suddenly feel like my hand is cut off halfway down my forearm, and I can still move and control my hand but it feels like it literally belongs to someone else. When i look at and become aware of my hand, i "know" that its not mine.
The second is extremely reoccuring deja vu. Some days when i'm teetering on the edge, i'll have deja vu upwards of 10 times a day. Its pretty weird
And the third is not recognising faces. My best friends face, my moms face, my partners faces. I just would not recognise their face or know who they were. It started out only when I was looking at pictures of friends, then became also for faces in real life.
Anyone else?
Edit: this post seems to be validating me and quite a few others, so thought i'd mention some more of my less-discussed symptoms:
I get EXTREMELY irritable and moody right before I begin an episode. Any and every little thing will piss me off and i lash out and i cant control it. Its almost like dissociative anger before dissociative numbing??
Also, I have very intrustive thoughts. Not only ones related to the possibility of existence, but just generally I will get super horrible thoughts that occur more often than they would for a normal person. Sometimes they arent horrible things, but rather just "fixations"? Like when i'm supposed to be focusing on something or even relaxing I will compulsively play one word over and over in my head or start having uncontrollable half-dreams or very strange thoughts. I know this is very common with OCD diagnosis (I dont have OCD) but it happens most commonly when i'm teetering on the edge.
Anyone else for either?
I've googled a bit about this and cannot find any references. I cannot be the only one that gets this. After I play a game like Boneworks where you have "arms" if I play enough to get used to them (like a couple of hours) after, my arms don't seem my own. I know consciously that they are but it's like I'm controlling a foreign body, still. It always fades after a while but it's kinda weird this happens to me and nothing on the web referencing it. I have a Vive, btw.
Does anyone else get this?
I didn’t specify which hand it was so you can decide which hand you want to be the alien hand in your prompt. Also, from what I have heard, people with this syndrome in real life like to give their alien hand a name. So if you want, you can give your alien hand a name. You don’t have to, but it’s a suggestion.
Don't ask me how, I attuned my thought process and my brain with a different dimension for my voices, now they can talk in my body or sometimes control me moving like walking or moving my hand.
So I guess it's like proof voices do exist, I just don't know how scientists can find it
It wasn't me. I swear to God. I didn't do those things.
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I was cursed, and I know what started it...
When I was little my grandfather would watch me sometimes. I never liked it because he was a drinker and worse than that he'd scare me. He had lost his left hand somehow - I was too young to understand and too scared to ever ask how. He had a stump basically that made his wrist look too thin, it was a visceral wrong feeling I got every time I looked at it and his drunken scary stories didn't make it better.
He would say sometimes he wondered where his left hand was, what it was doing like it had a mind of its own. One time I even caught him half passed out and I could swear he was crying. He would just say over and over again that he could still feel it moving, even though it wasn't there at the end of his wrist. He could still feel it moving.
Around that time I had a bad habit of wetting the bed. It was because I'd have nightmares that his missing left hand would come into my room at night, walking along the floor, making a myriad of finger taps against the wood. Like some five-legged spider, it'd crawl under my bed and when I woke up in the night I'd be too afraid to get up and walk to the bathroom - so I'd wet the bed. I was even too scared to tell my parents what was going on when they'd come in to check on me as if telling them would anger the hand still under the bed.
Fast forward 20 years and my life was fine. I was working as a bank teller, the safest job there was. I was living with a roommate who I was totally head over heels for. Her name was Lindsay and she was like a girl that time traveled out of Woodstock. She loved Eastern Meditation and good vibes. Every morning she'd breathe and soak in the morning sun in the living room by the window. She was beautiful, with chopsticks in her hair that she'd actually use to eat.
Then it all came crashing down. All because of my curse.
One day at the bank all of a sudden a full-on SWAT team broke in with guns and all shouting for everyone to get on the floor. I thought we were being robbed by professionals or something, like out of a movie, but then when it cleared my boss pulled me into his office and demanded an explanation. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about, but then he showed me the security footage. I was at my window, helping a customer with a cash w
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So I'm sitting in the toilet, my left arm goes numb and it starts to fucken move on its own. I was not able to control my arm, I didn't feel my arm. So I grabbed it with my right arm until the feeling subsided. No visual disturbance, no headache(suffer from migraines), do have a rotator cuff injury (my arm levating freaked me out). 🤔
Alien hand syndrome (AHS) or Dr. Strangelove syndrome is a condition in which a person experiences their limbs acting seemingly on their own, without control over the actions. The term is used for a variety of clinical conditions and most commonly affects the left hand.
Learned from the game Zero Time Dilemma, it references other neat happenings and psychological things, like Schrodinger's cat
My 5 Questions:
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Weirdest thing your hand has done?
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Favorite story involving action from the hand?
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Has your alien hand ever tried to masterbate?
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How did it happen to you in particular? (If surgery, the incident?)
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Have you ever felt happy in some circumstances to have this disorder?
For those who don't know what it is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
Can people with alien hand syndrome communicate with the hand in any way
