Comment on Anon plays GTA V

ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• j4k3@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is a big difference between a conceptual moment of abstractive thinking with expanded perspective, and someone that feels native to such an experience with no alternative.

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anon presented this as an a/b change, not a conceptual moment. That is a person who found a framework for depersonalization to take its footing in, even if it’s presented in a silly manner. There is not a prerequisite that states it must be pervasive enough to be the point of “no alternative” to be valid, that is asinine

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    • j4k3@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A "moment of Epiphany" and "imagining myself" are an abstraction of imagination and not an a/b change.

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      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        An abstraction of imagination that results in a complete loss of inhibition?

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    • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that is asinine

      I had to go back and reread the whole comment as Hank Hill.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Achievement Unlocked: Dissociation

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What if I treat life like playing GTA, but I am also the kind of person who follows traffic rules the vast majoirity of the time while playing GTA?

  Normalish person?

  Or… double psychopath, lol?

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  • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like not committing crimes in GTA is much more concerning.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s so hard to drive and obey traffic laws.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i got some bad news

    how do you feel about trains?

    did your mom really like Tylenol growing up?

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh I well aware I am autistic, I come from a long line of train-obsessed men, grandpa literally had his own model set the size of two queen or king mattresses that he custom made himself, dad was a mechanical dork, and I am a software envineering dork who loves to mod or make games into as close as a complex immersive sim as possible.

      Don’t know why you think that’s ‘bad news’, or has anything to do with Tylenol tho, I guarantee I’m better at any kind of engineering than you, lol.

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      • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        it’s a joke about being an Acetaminophen American in this current silly political climate not meant as an insult sorry

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How does one know if they are afflicted with depersonalization? Wikipedia left me confused.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More or less, do you live your life as you, directly, or do you…

    …more like, live your life in 3rd person, in your own head, as a kind of narrator or detwched observer/commentator of what ‘you’ are actually doing?

    This is very rough and far from exact, but maybe that is a way of phrasing it that makes sense?

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I imagine myself as someone else. Or sometimes a better version of myself. I imagine i’m not alone as I have only ever really been alone. I’m very aware it’s not real. It never felt real enough anyway. I’m guessing that’s not the same thing? It’s not all the time, but fairly often.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah that… does sound sort of in the same ballpark.

        I would say that is… potentially concerning, but I am not qualified to make a diagnosis.

        You being aware that you are doing the sort of … 3rd personing of yourself… that does not mean you are not depersonalizing, not derealizing.

        A big difference between depersonalizing yourself and… other types of mental disorders, is that in most other vaguely similar mental disorders, the person does not realize they are doing it.

        So the fact that you are aware, I would think that would actually narrow it down more precisely to being depersonalization.

        The main thing is a sense of identity so weak that you basically just invent another one on top of it, if that makes sense, that just sort of observes the first identity.

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        On a less clinical note, I am genuienly sorry to hear that and would offer you a hug =(

        I have been quite depressed before, and … yeah, hug.

        It sounds like you’ve been through a lot of trauma.

        For what its worth, you are still here, and some layer or level of you is still typing out your messages, so… you are still here.

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