Do you get 'disconnected' from your body?

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I regularly have problems walking down staircases, where my brain seems to disconnect from what my feet are doing. I have to be careful not to trip and fall from misplacing my feet. I don't have the same problem walking up the stairs, just down.

I also produce the garbled speech when talking in a noisy environment; I start to not be able to think straight or talk properly as all the sounds and my own voice start to not be clear to me.

There are a good amount of times where I have to look where I'm stepping, mostly when going up or down. Would self harm be part of disconnection, possibly?

my older brother was stationed in Vietnam during the war, and he told me that one night after duty he had an OOBE. there have been anecdotal reports of GIs out in the field during battles as well as test pilots in the centrifuge, who also had spontaneous OOBEs.

Far less than I used to, thank goodness. I was very dissociative years ago at the height of my depression. I'd just blank everything. Hard to describe the disconnectedness: sometimes I'd be like a balloon holding too much air threatening to burst, and other times I felt misplaced a few inches from where my body was. It is painful to recall it, but I would just sit in my room for hours staring into space, not even daydreaming. Not really sure if how I was back then even constituted as being alive. Worst time of my life; it took years of slowly improving and learning how to manage my low moods to see in hindsight how ill I was. I think in extremes, this disconnection from one's body can be one of the mind's last defences against internal mental conflict that is for all intents and purposes, at a stalemate.

While I don't 'forget' that I have extremities or things, I do lose control of them at times and also feel like a 'passenger' in my own body sometimes. Kinda like a part of my brain takes over for a bit or the parts of my brain switch places. If that makes sense.

I have another thing that happens, regarding the dyspraxia sense of the term disconnection -- on a regular basis I will find myself tipping my drink down my chin because I've had a momentary disconnect between brain, hand, where my mouth is, etc. I believe I do this way more than the average person. Does anyone else do this often enough for it to be an issue?

I am revisiting old post during my medical sabbatical from work.

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