I find the concept of ipseity to be interesting. Although not schizophrenic, I have AVPD and from my personal experience for me it describes the condition similar to where I anticipate aspects or factors in the outside world like goals or presumed roles to be overpowering or too much for me, bc I don't know how to handle them and I'm not in touch with skills to handle them. I understand this is not the actual definition of ipseity but the concept is similar to what I experience bc when I encounter or anticipate coming up to encounter something I understand I do not have skills or mentalization skills and personal skills to handle then I shutdown, avoid it ignore the situation possible experience or opportunity - which further reinforces the lack of my own experiences development and growth. I have boundaries, but an 'impaired capacity to integrate experience'. Thus, it's easier to keep myself separate from that which I understand or realize I don't know how to integrate. And so, I basically typically experience external (beyond typical functions like food clothing shelter and specific transactions I can do) as a threat, or I experience external experiences an opportunities as complete pools or landmines of threats which I don't know how to handle/ was not equipped to handle.
I've had a chronic ipseity disturbance since 1992; it was the first symptom i had before I started having paranoia and delusions. The best ways to describe it are:: it feels like I'm stuck in a dream like feeling; it feels like I don't exist- like I'm disappearing; it feels like my mind is open and everyone can enter my mind and interfere with it; when people get close to me it feels very uncomftorable, like our minds are somehow connected; when I'm talking to people it doesn't feel real, and I ask myself if the person I'm talking to is real, and it doesn't feel like I'm real, either; it feels like I'm connected to everything around me, but it feels like I'm not real. I've chronically had this feeling, even if I'm not hearing voices or having paranoia. I was on Clozapine but it did nothing for ipseity disturbance.
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I find the concept of ipseity to be interesting. Although not schizophrenic, I have AVPD and from my personal experience for me it describes the condition similar to where I anticipate aspects or factors in the outside world like goals or presumed roles to be overpowering or too much for me, bc I don't know how to handle them and I'm not in touch with skills to handle them. I understand this is not the actual definition of ipseity but the concept is similar to what I experience bc when I encounter or anticipate coming up to encounter something I understand I do not have skills or mentalization skills and personal skills to handle then I shutdown, avoid it ignore the situation possible experience or opportunity - which further reinforces the lack of my own experiences development and growth. I have boundaries, but an 'impaired capacity to integrate experience'. Thus, it's easier to keep myself separate from that which I understand or realize I don't know how to integrate. And so, I basically typically experience external (beyond typical functions like food clothing shelter and specific transactions I can do) as a threat, or I experience external experiences an opportunities as complete pools or landmines of threats which I don't know how to handle/ was not equipped to handle.
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Hi, does everyone with schizophrenia have an ipseity disturbance?
I've had a chronic ipseity disturbance since 1992; it was the first symptom i had before I started having paranoia and delusions. The best ways to describe it are:: it feels like I'm stuck in a dream like feeling; it feels like I don't exist- like I'm disappearing; it feels like my mind is open and everyone can enter my mind and interfere with it; when people get close to me it feels very uncomftorable, like our minds are somehow connected; when I'm talking to people it doesn't feel real, and I ask myself if the person I'm talking to is real, and it doesn't feel like I'm real, either; it feels like I'm connected to everything around me, but it feels like I'm not real. I've chronically had this feeling, even if I'm not hearing voices or having paranoia. I was on Clozapine but it did nothing for ipseity disturbance.
Hey hi struggling to find a doctor to treat ipseity disturbance pls help me
What do you experience?