How to get back to reality?

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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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    Hey have you by chance found any help? I was reading your posts and I can completely relate especially to the part where you said you try to be normal and you don't feel like you and just feel so out of place in your head or something it's the weirdest scariest feeling
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    Hey

    I cant believe there r so many people going through dis thing which is freaking me out as well..m just trying not to take my thoughts seriously i know its difficult but just going to try it for once.. These r just thoughts they cant change our destinies so just try to ignore them n think of all d good times.i hope dis vud help me🙏

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    Did any of you get over this without medication? I'm experiencing this same exact thing. With constant anxiety and insomnia.
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      I have moments where it's better and I'm not on any meds it's just a waiting game rolleyes I think learning to accept it and letting it pass
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      Do you have anxiety? I do and it's constant.. I feel like im going crazy or have some other mental illness. Although I've never been diagnosed with one besides anxiety and ocd. I feel completely out of touch with reality at times and get all these crazy racing thoughts like am I real. Is this my imagination. It really freaks me out and the thoughts just keep racing
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      Yes I'm currently going through at the moment it's scary and horrible isn't it ? sad I feel out of it also
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    This feeling of you/others/the world not being real is called derealisation. Look it up. It's your body's way of protecting you when you've undergone high emotional stress and is directly linked with anxiety. Don't ever think you're going crazy or are weird - this is a proven medical condition and is temporary! The thing that perpetuates it is your fear of it which keeps you in a state of high anxiety. To break the cycle go see a therapist, mine has helped so much. Also self help books, keeping busy, doing things you enjoy help too. I'm on sertraline but doesn't seem to be making much of a difference. It's all in the brain!
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      Thank you. I've read about that. Along with lots if other things. I get it so bad to the point where I start questioning if I actually exist. Or if im dreaming or in a coma or if everything is an illusion. I come up with all these crazy thoughts. It only makes my anxiety and the out of touch with reality feeling worse. I looked up things like phycosis and scizophrenia. Which was probably a bad idea because it made me feel worse. I don't have any hallucinations or anything but I do have constant crazy racing thoughts that are totally irrational. Usually about life. I wake up in panic and barely sleep. I've been super anxious and stressed lately so idk if the weird thoughts are just feeding off the anxiety or I'd I'm really crazy.
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      A dr once said if you were actually going crazy you wouldn't even be able to tell if that makes sense
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      Overthinking is part of anxiety and is such a nasty cycle to be stuck in. But I can literally guarantee you that you are not going crazy. Look at all the other people on here expressing exactly the same thoughts - we're not all crazy we just have anxiety! I was terrified that I was going crazy or I was dead or the world wasn't real and my therapist said these are extremely common and normal thoughts for someone with anxiety to have. To get a bit of perspective on your thoughts try mindfulness - it teaches you to observe your thoughts from a distance and let them pass. I really sympathise with you, everything you're saying I HAVE EXPERIENCED and it is horrendous and i cant even put into words how in despair i was but you will get through this. You are normal. You are not alone.
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      I seriously get the craziest thoughts like is someone controlling my mind? It makes me panic. Like thinking maybe it could be possible. I literally need to punch myself to see if im dreaming. This has been going on for almost a month now. Have you ever had these thoughts that made you panic? My mind is seriously just constantly racing about ransom stuff. Life,my past,menories. It's like a movie on fast forward. My mind never rests. I barley eat or sleep and just feel so unreal. There's points in the day I'll feel somewhat normal for maybe like a half hour. But then the thoughts come right back. I know they are crazy dillusional thoughts. But it's always in the back of my mind "what if it true" and makes me super anxious. My heart just races and I feel so out of it. I convince myself it must be more than anxiety but I feel like actual crazy people wouldn't be super anxious all the time about weird thoughts like that. But who knows. Has anyone had these exact thoughts? It's almost embarrassing to admit.
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      How is it going right now? I have the same thing, there are no words to describe how HORRIFIC it is. The main problem are random racing thoughts that I can't even focus on and distinguish, smth like describing for my self what I see at the moment, how I feel, what other people thinking about and some really random weird stuff not related, and the most horrific feeling "I can't run away from this feeling and thoughts because it's me, it will be forever". Also lots of questions about reality, how strange it is. At some points I just can't handle it anymore. Also everything seems weird by its meaning, I can't even explain this properly. And it's becoming weird that normal things seem weird and it's becoming more strange I can even lose sense of reality and time for a while. Sometimes there are periods of times throughout the day I can feel "normal" again but with a little weird background. I can't fall asleep for 2-3 hours and dreams are really nonsensical. I've started taking some tranqs and St John Wort and it doesn't seem to help, I just feel sleepy but weird thoughts and fear are still there. If anyone have some advices or smth please help, I am almost sure I'm going crazy don't know what to do

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      I had too much time instead of sleeping and finally found something that seems similar to the issue - existential OCD, maybe will be helpful at least to know the name for it. If somebody finds coping techniques or smth helpful for them please let me know. THE MOST HORRIBLE FEELING I EVER HAD
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    I feel just like you,that sense of disillusionment from reality.I get crazy episodes sometimes where I feel as though I'm being sucked out of this reality and into another that I am so unfamiliar with. Couple with a feeling of passing out, heart Palpatine, mind daze,fog,co fusion makes for a horrible mind boggling experience centre. But I have Faith that many of your brave people share similar experience cues. Doesn't that give you hope. You feel you can get a hold of the anxiety sometimes and then BOOM out of nowhere a random intense attack out of nowhere. Relax and a ceo it.it's happened before and it will probably happened again. But guess what you're still here. Don't ever try to compare yourself now to how you felt in the last because no two times are the same. I know you want to get back that nor all feeling you though you once had but guess what it wasn't that nor all. This anxiety may appear like that worse thing to ever happen but it's happening for a reason. You're an I credibly sensitive and emotional being who for whatever reason,it disentangle what that might be is experiencing severe anxiety. But these experiences will help shape you,grow you. The co start stream of thoughts in my mind workaround in negativity, I'm depressed,Millington die, no one will be me any more because of the way I am. You can't co Trollope outside forces, but trust yourself. It's you that's experiencing this,and for peoples haven't, rarely understand what yiuregoingtbeoigh. It's not their fault. You're not turning anything. How, by being you? You cant controlthis thing, if you could you wouldn't be experiencing this. You're family may understand or they may not but that's out of your co Trollope too.stay genuine and true to yourself. You are not alone as you might have guessed. New days bring new experience cues both good and bad, we all suffer and we all have peace and happiness. Don't expect things to happen, accept whatever comes your way in a gentle manner. Stay in there were in this together x
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      Minus the typos sorry, ill resend

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