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:

1. You have few goals and feel little sense of life.
2. Your mood or behavior swings between extremes.
3. You feel few emotions – or chronic irrational emotions.
4. You attempt to live someone else’s life (real or fantasy).
5. You experience obsessions, compulsions and limiting beliefs.
6. You feel unpleasantly bonded to someone, yet you cannot leave.
7. You cannot describe your own feelings or express your own values.