Myself and my partner just came back from Japan last Wednesday back to Ireland after a 2 week trip. It was genuinely wonderful, however I’ve been dealing with some icky dissociative feelings paired with jet lag since then (Tokyo to Frankfurt was 15 hours, Frankfurt to Dublin was 2 hours, then layovers etc). I already have pretty bad anxiety paired with ptsd (genuinely diagnosed) and had had a bad dissociative/depressive episode that lasted from August to about mid October this year; anyways the jet lag must’ve set off some kinda anxious trigger cos I’m spiralling a little thinking my episode is coming back, just wanted to ask is dissociation a normal part of jet lag? Not feeling in touch w yourself, your surroundings, your thoughts paired with feeling exhausted after waking up? I’ve finally managed to get my sleep kinda back in order but I still don’t feel right. Also just worked 4 days in a row in retail, long hours and haven’t seen much daylight 😭 Everything just feels weirdly alien even though ofc I’m home, I know every corner of my house but still don’t feel right around people or anything :// any advice or even if someone else has had this and how do you manage it?
Thank you so so much 💗
by 2sad4beanz