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How to get back to reality?

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tanya99
tanya99

Sorry again, but I find myself constantly worrying about weird weird stuff. Very detached from reality feeling. I hate it, it's a disgusting feeling I can't seem to snap out of it because that makes me feel like I'm mentally ill and insane. I find it difficult because I know we do this all to ourselves but I just can't seem to stop because it makes me feel terrible. I don't even feel like me sometimes, my feelings are different and just not how I used to feel (that I can remember) it's so bad because I feel like I'm ruining my family's Christmas sad gosh someone please help :'( I feel like I've drove myself into a big deep hole I get a weird thought that when I try to be normal it just isn't me and oh my gosh I cannot explain it atall :'( it's ruining me

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  • Anna0256
    Anna0256 tanya99

    Posted

    Hi Tanya,

    I'm going through the same exact thing as well, I couldn't have said it better myself and I keep worrying that I'm ruining my family's Christmas as well which is causing more anxiety.

    • jen31560
      jen31560 Anna0256

      Posted

      I, too, am in the same shoes: ( I'm just doig my very best to pretend I'm okay and going about my day. Been to 5 psychiatrists ad still can convince myself it's schizophrenia sad
    • K1PPI3
      K1PPI3 jen31560

      Posted

      Jen, Thank you, I've been searching for almost 7 months to find out whats wrong with me, I'm 17 and after i moved to my father i got this horrible feeling. I thought to just get convidence or get quotes to help, but it didn't, I thought that I could manage it, but then I came across your comment...

      Thank you so much

    • christy33651
      christy33651 jen31560

      Posted

      I hate pretending and i do that alot. It's like I'm behide closed doors with my anxiety. I hide my anxiety as best as i can an when it gets so bad i can't hide it no more then i show.

  • Aspinan
    Aspinan tanya99

    Posted

    Hi guys, you are not going insane at all believe me and your not going to end ip no no asylum.

    When I was suffering with anxiety and depression for the first time and was very ill I also had those thoughts and feared being admitted to a mental health unit and being considered a no hoper, but in reality I was just suffering from a very common mental I illness and after finding the right medication with anti depressants I recovered. 

    If you are not thinking or feeling as you should then having a chat with your GP is the place to start, maybe your family will support you more if you have a diagnosis.

    Definitely biological and hormonal changes could be playing a part here also which adds to the overall confusion and fearfulness.

    Just remember Your Not Mad, Your Not Bad and You Will Get Better!

     

    • tanya99
      tanya99 Aspinan

      Posted

      I keep having thoughts like 'is my brain me, does it determine who I am' like it doesn't make sense properly but it's deep and it cares the life out of me. I genuinely feel full of fear and like I cannot cope😭 worst part is I question who I am and what I am like deep weird stuff but it makes me extremely anxious where as before I probably would of wondered about it felt a little weird but shaken it off. I hate having to try an act normal in front of family they see it as I'm attention seeking but I am genuinely scared 
    • naomi53848
      naomi53848 tanya99

      Posted

      I feel like this a lot but therapy and talking to someone will help you get out of the vicious cycle. I feel like this when I'm anxious and feel weird like I just want to get back to reality it will pass and you will feel normal again. No one truly understands how hard it is if they have never had the feeling which is why your family could be telling you that you are attention seeking. 
    • tanya99
      tanya99 naomi53848

      Posted

      Thankyou Naomi, makes you feel a little better sometimes when someone experiences the same thing sorta. I keep getting these crazy thoughts though about whether or not I'm really me? Like that sounds so fcked up I can't even understand it myself. I also keep getting really fearful incase I ever got an urge to do something bad to my mum like it scared the sh*te out of me or if I ever became sexually attracted to my relatives it gets me really stressed out and I worry about it excessively! I honestly don't think I'm normal hahaha but I've searched and searched and I still convince myself it's more than anxiety 
    • nyla12700
      nyla12700 tanya99

      Posted

      hey idk if you'll see this but if you do, did you recover from feelin like this? because the last couple of months ive been feeling the same way and its very scary...

    • josfredo
      josfredo nyla12700

      Posted

      hello, im replying becuz of ur recent post. i haave been with this thing for almost 3 years now, but am trying mindfulness, what about you
    • alana95627
      alana95627 Aspinan

      Posted

      I swear when I tell my mother these things (she is a doctor)  she says oh no you don't have xyz you are just making it up in your head you are over paranoid. You would think that she would have noticed. And she says "I have to deal with actual sick people at work I am not going to deal with someone pretending to be sick at home".I feel the same as tanya99. 

    • angel35586
      angel35586 tanya99

      Posted

      Hey Tanya I can definitely relate to all the experiences you are going through. I don't feel like I am me anymore and sometimes it feels as if I don't have a soul. My mom also tells me that I am doing it for attention or tries to downplay what I tell her that I am experiencing. The best way I can describe what I am going through right now, is it feels like I could be in a coma or something. Like I was trying to look back and see if their is any way that this could all be a dream and that I am actually in the hospital, in a coma, due to being in a bad accident or something that has caused me to be in a coma.

  • anahita.p
    anahita.p tanya99

    Posted

    its all coz of negative thoughts.its just u r swiming ur racing thoughts.try therapis and express ur thoughts it will help a lot.
  • leon30828
    leon30828 tanya99

    Posted

    HI i would really like to know if there are any updates in your condition as i am going through the same thing, i dont feel like am actually in my own body i feel like i am detatched somehow, its scary sometimes, ive felt like this for awhile now and i do not know how to change it. i feel like my mind is trying to fight my axienty and this is a direct consequence of it, its like my mind is shutting parts of my consciousness down if that makes any sense. i would like to know how you are feeling if thats okay.
    • Rg7588
      Rg7588 leon30828

      Posted

      Hi Leon

      I do t know if you have been in recent key but I saw your post. Reading what you said is exactly how I feel. Have you found any things that have helped. I shut down and became detached and been like it for 2years now . I just want to know if anything helped I'm struggling and worry I'll never get back to been the normal me again .

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