I am very clumsy. I have fallen out of the shower. I stumble so much just trying to walk across the room. It is more like I can't move in a straight line with ease, forget grace. I hit walls door ways anything I can hit or run into. I thought it was just me! Glad to find out it isn't:)

I also run into doors and have those same mystery bruises. There is no doubt that this is a depth perception issue. Apparently, we all suffer from it and HAVE suffered from it for as long as we can remember, especially those of us who have had ptsd snce childhood.

BUT< We all, or at least a majority of us, seem to have the racing mind thing going on too. So, could this be a result of simply not paying attention to what we are doing? Are we in to big of a hurry or thinking about something else?

Depth Perception OR Concentration? ? ?.

I am constantly bumping into things.
My legs always have multiple purple mystery bruises. Some of them are quite large and ugly.
I trip over things, even my own feet.
Door frames often jump in front of me. I'm lucky if I hit my shoulder, sometimes it's my head or face.
I've been known to smack myself in the face with doors.
I can walk parallel to a wall, and bump into it.
I've had many close calls on stairs. I take stairs really slow, and always hold onto something, when going up or down.
I often injure myself in the kitchen, usually by burning or cutting my hands, or dropping things on my feet. I've been fairly successful at dancing out of the way of falling knives, but I fear, one of these days I will lose a toe.
I've forced myself into the habit of wearing shoes all day, to protect my feet from injury.
I misplace things constantly. If I could get back the time I spend looking for my teacup, it would be weeks or months.

I guess that's what happens when you live in a constant state of distraction.

I wonder if this is maybe a part of dissociation. Could be I'm thinking. That would explain why we don't know the hows or why's of alot of the brusies and scrapes. Just a thought from me.

judyandsus- that's a good point. I know that I heavily dissociate throughout the day, I wonder if others here who posted that they are clumsy also heavily dissociate.

Disassociation? ? ?

Interesting twist to this issue. My mom is always telling me that I just don't pay attention. In fact, I've been told that my entire life.

Guess if we are having trouble with every other aspect of our lifes why not this too.

All I know is this. Last night I broke another coffee carafe by simply putting it is the sink for rinsing. Ran it directly into the faucet. Key word being ANOTHER !

This is something I've thought about on and off for quite a while now. Since the memories first started coming up a few years back, my clumsiness got worse. I bump into door knobs, walls, everything - lots of bruises. It's been gradually improving but I occasionally have lapses. For me, it's not general clumsiness - I don't break things very often. And even when I'm feeling dizzy, it doesn't get worse. I don't mine is related to depth perception either, and I'm not on any psych meds.

It feels like my clumsiness of walking into things and getting bruises is a part of me that's trying to punish me or re-enact pain from the past. My memory's shot to pieces with dissociation, but as far as I can remember, I walk into more things when the guilt/shame/self-loathing is strongest.

I think it has to do with dissociation and that crossed my mind about a year ago when I first learned about it.

I'm trying to make it a habit to be present in the here and now to see if it would cut back on my clumsiness and forgetfulness. But after so many years of dissociating it's really hard to remember to be in 'this moment' all the time. Actually it seems nearly impossible.

I know they say it's not good to dissociate but I happen to like it, other than the negative side effects of bruises and waisting half of the day looking for something I lost. I figured I better stop or I might forget my child and leave her somewhere. Yea, it's getting that bad!

Tammy

Oh Tammy

I am so glad to hear someone else spends enormous amounts of time looking for things you can not find. It pisses me off So Much! I loose EVERYTHING. I set stuff down and it may as well be in China cuz when I go to get it DUH No Clue where I put it. Bringing up another issue. Being consistant. I never put stuff in the same place twice. LIKE KEYS!

I was aksed by a therapist if I loose things all the time and walk around not really knowing what I was doing like in a fog not really there. When my jaw dropped and I said yes she then told me it was dissociation. I had no idea what that really meant until I found this place and read up on it. So that is why I thought after my first reply....why would it not be? In my case anyway