Extreme dissociation may be called nervous breakdown or emotional breakdown. Did you become frustrated, angry and anxious; and later dull; empty of anything except perhaps boredom or loneliness? Did you lose a rich sense of life and now only want to distract yourself? Some signs are:
- You have few goals and feel little sense of life.
- Your mood or behavior swings between extremes.
- You feel few emotions – or chronic irrational emotions.
- You attempt to live someone else’s life (real or fantasy).
- You experience obsessions, compulsions and limiting beliefs.
- You feel unpleasantly bonded to someone, yet you cannot leave.
- You cannot describe your own feelings or express your own values.