Mental health making me dissociate while acting :/ any tips?
Hi all! I’m starting on a film soon, but I’m hitting a pretty big roadblock in my acting due to mental health.
I’ll be acting and often as soon as I try to begin I’ll feel all my emotions (and sometimes later on, thoughts) just “turn off.” It’s a really awful blankness and I end up kind of stuck. For context, I recently went through a traumatic incident, which I think is causing this flareup, and also live with cptsd/bpd. It’s never affected my acting in such an intense way before, though, and I’m quite worried.
I’ve read a few threads on dissociating while acting and mental health, and the consensus seems to be “get therapy.” I’ve definitely been doing so (three types at that), and while they’re definitely helping, I don’t see progress fixing this issue within the film’s time frame.
If anyone out there has dealt with something similar, are there any tips or practices that have helped you better connect with your character and the scene without dissociating, and any advice for keeping your brain moving forward when you do?
Thank you!