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When you feel as though you don't recognize anything, but know it is "familiar", that sounds like a sens of [link removed]. The "opposite" of Deja Vu. If I had to guess this is part of a simple partial.
Once you get to the point you feel you don't have that control, I'd guess that is a complex partial. Others may argue with that, but I'm willing to bet when you feel like you have "less control", I would bet you have less than you think you may.
I never had any sense of what was going on during a complex partial, but I have talked to others that believe they have, so I won't argue with the possibility.
Best guess, you are first experiencing the simple, but moving onto the complex partial once you "'step back' further into yourself".
Hope this gives you some insight.
Coming up with descriptions for how we feel or what we experience can be an experience. We all have trouble doing it because words are not made to describe it.
As for your description of going "through the steps, and through a door..deeper and deeper", you may be surprised with how much many of us understand it. It doesn't sound crazy at all to me.
Maybe "post-ictal delirium"? That's what it sounds like.He said it was called 'some sort of big medical word' then explained what it meant and why it happened.
Maybe "post-ictal delirium"? That's what it sounds like.
When I was first going through this and knew I was experiencing something this is how I started tracking/journaling it, (because I didn't know all the terminology or understand).
I used different color highlighters in my journal. I'd write details too about what I experienced, remembered or what others told me but it seemed like I remembered the feelings or some specific actions the most.
For example:
*when I feel like a simple partial is getting worse I grab a phone to call my husband, mom or daughter. (highlight pink).
I now have cordless phones in every room, even the bathrooms.