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Case Study 810
Having been diagnosed with anxiety at various stages of my life (all triggered by an some stressful event i.e. job, relationship or bereavement), I was astonished to see the descriptions of dream-like state, detachment and time compression, all of which I now currently experience on a daily basis. I've fully experienced the feeling of 'watching myself' and that time had actually stopped when trying desperately to 'fall into concentration' at work, almost like insomnia. I've always been nostalgic for the past (especially the industrial past of my childhood) but now I'm detaching into imagining what life was like before I was born, or even pre-civilisation and then jumping into the future imagining me not here. I don't worry about the future, perhaps because I'm in my 50s but I do care what life will be like for future generations. I do have 'material' interests but I now can swing between being interested and then wanting to see them far enough, wanting to 'declutter' my life. Despite all this, I would not say I was currently depressed. I do wonder what effect this detachment will have on the rest of my life however. While I have a comfortable but simple life style, I live on my own, have no offspring and have few friends and perhaps I have too little responsibility to distract me from my thoughts. But is it possible that detachment brings some sort of 'greater wisdom' beyond day to day reality? Is it like seeing behind the wings while watching a play on a stage? I think that once the feeling of detachment has occurred once, dislocation from day to day life continues for the rest of your life, it cannot be 'unlearned'. I also wonder if we (our souls) are in effect parasites which inhabit the homo-sapien species to experience life, but somehow become disengaged to an extent due to life circumstances. Perhaps this ties in with reincarnation and past life experiences influencing our 'current life' anxieties.
Old Soul
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