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depersonalization help

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how do u cope when you start stressing over feeling depersonalized? i try to get my mind off it but its so hard and scary

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  • lee12629
    lee12629 Guest

    Posted

    What do you mean

    by depersonalized?

    • Guest
      Guest lee12629

      Posted

      feeling like im in a dream like state out of it nothing seems real etc.
  • lee12629
    lee12629 Guest

    Posted

    Have you just started a new med,that could make you feel that way.
    • Guest
      Guest lee12629

      Posted

      i felt like this before i started taking zoloft my dr said its normal because ive had a hard traumatic experience losing my mom im just trying to see how people deal with it if they experience it too
    • tracey90201
      tracey90201 Guest

      Posted

      It is something I experience as well. I hate it. I can't be alone when it happens to me. I've just come out of a bad few weeks. I just push through it and try to stay busy. I also suffer from insomnia when my anxiety is high and I think that makes the realization/depersonalizations worse. It sucks.
    • tracey90201
      tracey90201

      Posted

      I meant derealization and depersonalization
    • Guest
      Guest tracey90201

      Posted

      same with me my bf works so i stay home alone and i look around the room and freak out its so scary sometimes rolleyes i just want it to go away
  • NameGene
    NameGene Guest

    Posted

    Remind yourself it is a source of discomfort, not a source of danger, acknowledge it and accept it. Return your thoughts to the present rather than your thoughts of other times and places. Don't argue with your thoughts,  just refocus your attention,

    to the present surroundings. Yes, it is scary, only if you let it be.

    • Guest
      Guest NameGene

      Posted

      thank you its hard when it gets bad rolleyes but that is a comfort thank you
  • sue73
    sue73 Guest

    Posted

    I used to sing to myself (so I could hear myself and know I was there), look around and describe everything around me to myself, hold onto something (shopping trolley, bag, camera), talk like mad if I was with someone so the sound of my voice reassured me although I did worry if they didn't answer, perhaps they couldn't hear me because I wasn't really there? (you can tell how bad I got!), always carry water because drinking feels so real, ditto mints... everyone has their own tricks, you may find some more! It is extremely unpleasant and I so sympathise, but it does get better. I can't say it ever completely goes once you've suffered, but I've developed so many coping mechanisms that it hardly bothers me now. 
  • LarryLarry
    LarryLarry Guest

    Posted

    Few years ago i felt derealization very often, then I found out what it is and get used to it. I accepted my derealization, when it had happened i thought "again i'm feel like i'm dreaming. oh well... whatever". I did not pay attention to it and it had slowly disappeared.
  • elena56762
    elena56762 Guest

    Posted

    I get tunnel vision which is like im dead to the world try not to allow urself to fall into thoughts of worry keep talking laughing call someone play a game prayers are the best good luck and stay focus
  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    thank you i notice when i have a i dont care attitude and try to stay busy it slowly gets better smile i lost my mom 3 years ago recently got hit by bad depression am on anti depressants believing for healing💙
  • Lizzie46881
    Lizzie46881 Guest

    Posted

    Hi

    I get this occasionally too, I'm bipolar II with anxiety and obsessional thinking but well medicated.  Its best if I can just forget about it and then it doesn't bother me, until soemthing reminds me like this post.  No criticism intended.  I have also called it referred to as dissasociation (not sure of spelling).  When it does happen I really hate it, just like I can't engage with and enjoy all the good things going on around me.  Its  not a med side effect as I was getting it for years before I was ever diagnosed and medicated.  I hope it leaves you alone really soon.

    Happy CHristmas

    Lizzie

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