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mark77708
mark77708

Hi everyone,

I just kind of want to vent and ask for advice I guess. So like prozac worked for me in the past but i tried to get back on 2-3 more times and the last time i tried at least to me it exacerbated my symptoms. I stopped the prozac after 5 days due to these new fears. To explain it made me get panic attacks multiple times a day and then the strangest mind games happened. When I would look at the sky it felt so overwhelming like I mentally felt like I could fall into it. It was/is the scariest sensation and feels so real. Sometimes it feels like everything Im seeing is for the first time or I cant make sense of it. Like how dark it gets at night or how the world works. It feels so overwhelming. Then the depersonalization/derealization hit. Its been 3 weeks or a month now and i question the reality of things, if its all made up in my head. My psych said my anxiety and ocd is just very severe and causing this. He prescribed abilify 2.5 mg alone with nothing else. However, my question along with those symptoms above is now im afraid in this fragile state of any drugs making my screwed up thinking worse. I just dont know if i could handle it or mentally make sense of anything if that happens. Just need some advice or helpful talk I guess.

Thanks,

Mark

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  • mark77708
    mark77708

    Posted

    Does anyone have any advice or thoughts....

  • bradw
    bradw mark77708

    Posted

    I feel your pain Mark. I am a 32yo Male, otherwise healthy person. I've had spells of anxiety (months long) that have been exactly as you wrote. I truly believed I was going to spend the rest of my life in an insane asylum. -Constant brain fog and disassociation, thoughts of 'how, why, where, who' repeated over with everything I did and accompanied every thought, even if it was an innocent thought like a bird flying or how my leg was positioned, etc. My only relief was an SSRI (paxil for me). Within a day I went from wanting to make a video for my kids so they would know their dad before he went insane to calling a friend to ask how he was doing. My panic was still there for a few days but slowly went away and my clear mind came back.

    You are not alone, my friend. -and remember 'Truly crazy people dont think they're crazy.'

    • mark77708
      mark77708 bradw

      Posted

      hey thank you so much for responding brad. im sorry for everything you had to deal with and go through. but im so so glad to hear that you are in a better situation now. did any ssri's make things worse for you before you found paxil? im at a point where the prozac did work like paxil worked for you but trying to get on again it made things worse. im trying to find hope and strength that ill feel better and get back to feeling grounded. questioning reality and the earth, gravity, perception is taking such a toll.

      mark

  • al-pk9
    al-pk9 mark77708

    Posted

    Hi Mark,

    I can truly sympathise with your situation. I started on an SSRI when I was in a very vulnerable state mentally and it gave me DPDR for about 2 weeks. That wasn't the worst part, the DPDR left me after and ever since I've been locked in a terrible existential state where I have had to spend most of the day ignoring and fearing my consciousness; Memory, time, feelings have all become a big problem for me. I constantly question stuff like 'how do we just know things', and other aspects of reality that just seem to complex and overwhelming for me right now. Something has happened to my memory as well, it is not that I have a bad memory, it just feels dull and impersonal, like it's not my own. and I don't know what the hell it is. I developed a very strange mindset and feel very surreal all the time. I get miniature panic attacks but they seem to be overwhelmed by this thing whatever else is going on. Right now, I couldn't imagine feeling normal again and it has been 5 months. It has improved from the ground zero worst point, I'm doing things like exercising and socialising again, feeling normal during none of it. However my advice would be to really flag this up with your GP. This can and may go on to cause huge problems in your life and I have noticed that they do not take men seriously in times like this. I have spent time in psychiatry and now have a consultant psychiatrist on hand but there is nothing that can be done now other than rest as much as possible and play the time game. I know in my heart this is going to be a journey of years.

    I wish you all the best.

    Alex

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