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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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  • Tommytitan
    Tommytitan tanya99

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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. Coupled with a feeling of passing out, heart Palpating, mind daze,fog, confusion makes for a horrible mind boggling experience. But I have Faith that many of you brave people share similar experience. 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 occurs. Relax and accept 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 past because no two times are the same. I know you want to get back that normal feeling you thought you once had but guess what it wasn't that normal. This anxiety may appear like the worse thing to ever happen but it's happening for a reason. You're an Incredibly sensitive and emotional being who for whatever reason,it doesn't matter what that might be is experiencing severe anxiety. But these experiences will help shape you,grow you. The constant stream of thoughts in my mind surrounded in negativity, I'm depressed,going to die, no one will be there for me any more because of the way I am can lead to a terribly lonely feeling. You can't control outside forces, but trust yourself. It's you that's experiencing this,and for people that haven't, rarely understand what youre going through, It's not their fault. You're not ruining anything. How, by being you? You cant control this 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 control too. Stay genuine and true yourself. You are not alone as you might have guessed. New days bring new experiences 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
  • cheye72347
    cheye72347 tanya99

    Posted

    Thank you so, so much for posting this, I really needed to know that I'm not the only one that experiences this, this is the first time that I've ever seen or heard someone talk about this and I felt completely alone on that before I read this. I'm sorry you're having to go through that and I hope things get easier for you, just keep in mind that you aren't alone
  • Guest
    Guest tanya99

    Posted

    It really is a scary feeling it makes you feel like you are going crazy but it's to help protect you from stress I'm going through it bad right now I hate it ;(
  • nina58055
    nina58055 tanya99

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    Hi everyone, I have been feeling so bad this past month and I honestly don't know what to do anymore. I've battled with anxiety and depression about 4 years ago and somehow got past it but this time it is different. About a month ago now, randomly, in the shower, the thought "nothing we do in life matters because we all die anyway". This sent my thinking into a spiral of depression and anxiety. I was super depressed about that thought for like 2 weeks, and then the anxiety hit. I was plagued with anxiety and thinking that I will feel/think like that forever now. I don't even remember how the derealization started, but it's all I can remember and feel now. I started questioning EVERYTHING about reality. Why does this look like this? Why does this sound like this? Why are words the way they are? Why do people look the way they do? WHY WHY WHY ABOUT EVERYTHING. It has gotten to the point where I feel COMPLETELY disconnected from reality, I am terrified, depressed and hopeless about my situation. Everything looks forgien and weird to me, and when it doesn't, it just looks gloomy and depressing. I was such a happy person just a month ago, I don't know what happened to me. I am absolutely terrified that I will feel this way forever. I can't stop questioning reality, asking myself exsistential questions and freaking out over it. Nothing makes me happy or relaxed anymore, I simply don't know what to do. I called a mental health clinic today and tomorrow a psychiatrist is suppose to call me back for an evalutation over the phone. My primary doctor perscribed me Paxil but I'm too scared to start taking it. I feel like I am losing my mind. I'm also obsessively questioning if this is all real, followed by questions like, what is life anyway? What is "real"? What is reality? My brain is so fried, I can't do this anymore.
    • alison82593
      alison82593 nina58055

      Posted

      I'm going through the same thing. I've spoke to a phsycologist and have seen a physcatrist. It's been a little over a month that I have been feeling this way. I also question everything. The world feels so unreal. I feel like it's all on my head at times. So.e days are better than others. My Dr's have said that it's anxiety and ocd but more like pure o. Which is why I have these racing thoughts 24/7 along with being anxious all day. I was prescribed some medication but I'm a little nervous to try the one. I've been taking valium for when I get super anxious . But it doesn't last long and you're not really supposed to take it for a long period of time. I would make an appointment and speak to them about medication or there is always cbt therapy that could possibly help. Don't feel like you're alone because you ate not. I have the exact same tboughts. They are very uncomfortable and non stop race through my mind
    • alison82593
      alison82593

      Posted

      Sorry for the typos. I hope you know what I meant lol
    • Jenijar
      Jenijar nina58055

      Posted

      Hi Nina, I feel exactly the same way, has it got any better for you? X
    • sunny77804
      sunny77804 nina58055

      Posted

      Hey I so feel for you.. You need to surround yourself with NORMAL people and hang out and do stuff with them so you know what it is to be normal. There is a book written by a Christian lady, it's called the battlefield of the mind - by Joyce Meyer, try reading this if you will. I sure hope you get freedom from all of this and can live a normal happy peaceful life! Hang in there!

    • tanya99
      tanya99 nina58055

      Posted

      Hey Nina,

      how are you feeling give me a message if ur still on here I've felt the exact same haha it feels horrible at the time and like you're never gonna get over it but believe in yourself. Hope you're doing ok x

       

    • Steel8259
      Steel8259 nina58055

      Posted

      Hi my name is Jonathan and I'm going through the same things you are did you ever find help and get better

    • Gata13
      Gata13 tanya99

      Posted

      hi tanya how did u get thru this i am going thru the same now and wanna know how u got better
  • Rg7588
    Rg7588 tanya99

    Posted

    Hello tanya99

    I don't know if your still on this page as I see it's quite an old post. I feel exactly the same. Feel so disconnected from my partner family , I don't seem to feel any love . I just feel like I'm completely different person. It's like I've gone into a mode where I switch everything off. I just wondered if you found any help since and if so what helped you. As I'm really struggling and I have been feeling this way now for 2years with no sign of getting the normal me back 😪

    • sunny77804
      sunny77804 Rg7588

      Posted

      Hi, I don't know if you'll see this post. I've been going through this too and it's very confusing state of mind. I constantly try to reason with myself about this stuff and many times I get freedom from it. I thought no one can understand what I'm going through. My husband is all confused sometimes and can't understand what I'm saying. Cuz it is pretty abnormal. Another thing that did help me was helping people! Yes! Going out there and finding people to help! To do stuff for others/for people that you would normally not do. How does this help? Well, it helps to get your mind off of yourself and thereby your focused on others and it is great therapy for your brain. Try it if you want to. But most of all, I know many of you may differ in your faiths, and I myself am struggling with mine, but I do believe that there is a God named Jesus and I do believe that calling out to him will help you guys! Let me know how this progresses for you all!

    • Ghee_knows
      Ghee_knows sunny77804

      Posted

      Sat-Sun I had a big episode but I could feel it coming on, surrounding my head.  I had just enough time to call my husbands name. The only things I remember after that were -  being in the ambulance, and  - waking up in the hospital. And, througout the episode; in a dreamlike state,  Also, I felt trapped, I had to find the way out., I kept trying to find a 'way out' I in my head.  After, when I came home from the hospital I asked my husband to tell me what I had done.  He had called for help. He and a police officer had to hold me down,  because I was heading to the top of the stairs. He said I was thrashing around, writing with my finger in the air  on some imaginary board, .screeming, and saying very weird stuff.

      Wed -Thurs 4 days later another one., not quite as intense, but I was using vey derogatory words that were not part of my vocabulary normaly. My daughter had come up for a visit, we were supposed to be going to a shrine early the next day. She said it was like I was drunk (I don:t Drink) She said I stayed on the floor screaming. My husband had to hold me on his lap, more bad language and my eyed rolled back, she was very frightened..Then they had to hold me down again, untill the ambulance arrived. I clearly remember having that same panic feeling of not being able to get out in my head. The Psychiatrist feels strongly that it was a dissociative disorder  caused by the stress I had been going through that week (he was right about that, stress level was sooo high).He said it was like a kettle boiling on the stove and whisling as the steam has to come out, He said the pressure can build up in your brain until it cannot take any more. He gave me Adivan (Lorazepam) to put under my tongue when I feel stressed, and especially if I feel another one. I never want one again, it is a horrible feeling tryinng to get out of a state that is dreamlike,

      I wonder what other Dr.s are calling it.

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