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- holytropical!
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thank you so much this is amazing advice ??
I can understand being in a complete panic from an OCD attack and almost feeling numb..like I’m not really there. But I think it’s the body being in shock from so much nervous activity. It helps if I start talking to someone I’m close to about anything to come back to a level head. I’m just explaining my take on it. I’m so sorry you’re feeling this way.
Well actually I have those from time to time, and If you were wondering how to tell if it's real, I found out (I discovered this myself) is that when it's real, close your eyes as tight as you can until it starts hurting a little bit, then you know you are awake, because you can't close ur eyes harder in your dreams. So just keep practicing that for about a month, and you should start getting used to it as time goes on. However it may not help derealization, it can lower your anxiety when you have one. Hopefully this helps, and If not, I will for sure try to search for others ways to help you.
Have you told your doctor? I think I had something to do with medication. Whether you need something different or this is a terrible side effect. I don’t know. I’m sorry. I can sorta understand what you’re saying.
You’re welcome. I want it people who suffer like I do to know they aren’t alone.
I’m having blurry vision lately too! I do think it’s a side effect. But my what if worry brain is saying it’s the onset of hallucinations which makes me more anxious and bc I’m operating with a deficit.
You need to stop trying to “go back to normal.” Your efforts to control it or push the feelings away are what’s driving them. “Maybe this is a daydream. Maybe not. Maybe my vision will always be blurry. Maybe not. Maybe I don’t control my own body. Or maybe I do. Maybe I’m in a hole in another galaxy. Or maybe I’m right here on earth just feeling depersonalized. I can’t be sure about any of this. Oh well.” Basically, the more worried and non-accepting you are if not feeling real and present and sure, the worse it gets. The more you can sit in the uncertainty and just let the anxiety happen and subside, without doing compulsions (in this case: trying to prove yourself you’re okay or real) the less anxiety you’ll eventually feel and the more grounded you’ll get over time.
Are you taking medication?
Yeah Im taking 20 MG Prozac currently
Do you think this could be a side effect from you meds?
I don’t know I can’t tell, I’ve gone through this before but it got really bad again recently, like 9 days ago. I had depersonalization/derealization before I took the Prozac as well, I was diagnosed with panic disorder and OCD by a psychiatrist because of the symptoms I was feeling and they then put me on Prozac so idk what it could be tbh I’m worried...
I have never had derialization before, but if you can explain what you are feeling like, please tell me and I can try to help you out.
Well I know it’s all caused by anxiety BUT I feel like I’m in a forever daydream, like I try to refocus and shake it off but it just doesn’t happen, it’s a daydream 24/7, I have blurry vision cause of this, I get tingly in my arms, everytime Im gonna talk and move or try to grab or move something, it feels like someone else is doing it for me, like someone is moving my arms and body for me, I feel like I’m in a hole or in another galaxy, I feel high almost everyday, it’s an UGLY feeling and I just don’t feel real and I don’t know how to stop this, they say don’t analyze it and you’ll get better BUT it’s hard not to analyze it when you feel it 24/7, it’s not just mental its ALSO physical. It’s the worst feeling I’ve ever experienced and I just want to come back down to earth
Thank you so much you’re so sweet ?
Maybe try lithium, or an SSRI. I have derelization/ depersonalization lot when my symptoms are very bad. I take an SSRI and it helps me a lot.
Yeah Prozac is an SSRI which I’m currently taking rn
My anxiety/OCD got SO bad that I had a derealization episode. Scariest thing that has ever ever ever happened to me. If anyone has ever been there, please let me know. I have no idea what to do and am scared I’m losing my sanity :-(
I can't tell if my derealization got worst.. I feel different like things feel fake or is this how it feels to feel normal? Everything just looks and feels weird I'm scared I think Ima start having an anxiety attack.
hi! I really need someone to help out right now. I would appreciate it so much. Thanks:) I know this is kind of long, but please help me out and read it. please help confirm for me that the symptoms im experiencing are just extreme existential OCD, depersonalization, and anxiety. it would make me feel a lot better. 7-8 months ago a traumatic event led me to experience severe depersonalization. ive had OCD for as long as i can remember basically, but it’s become a lot worse from this. i am a very big overthinker, so i tend to over analyze a lot of the things going on around me, my perception of everything, my thoughts, etc. it’s gotten so bad because of the depersonalization that i at times really can’t function anymore. one day, all i’ll be able to think about is the irrational fear that i somehow am going to die and there’s something terribly wrong with my brain, like cancer or something. then the next, i’ll be freaking out, worrying that im gonna go crazy. like this is some kind of early onset schizophrenia. i start doing research and i start obsessing over each and every thought i have, everything i see, etc. then i’ll be paranoid about my family, worrying that none of them are real and they’re imposters or something. i know it’s irrational. i recognize that and don’t genuinely believe it. but the fact that this thought worries me concerns me even more because it leads me to believe im going crazy. i am having existential crises regularly. like, all the time. it’s actually ridiculous. i’ll be reading a book and i start contemplating the English language and how it came to be, and then language altogether, and then how humans were able to create and understand language, and then how they were able to sound it out, how sound exists altogether, and so on. lol. like what the hell? a few days ago i was looking out of my bedroom window, and all the sudden had the intrusive thought come into my head, “what if this is just a simulation and what you see outside of your window is merely a two dimensional image?” and then i almost had a full on panic attack. anyways, those are some examples. i’m so worried. i feel like i have no control over what freaks me out anymore. i feel like i have no control of my brain altogether. i don’t want to go crazy. i don’t want to feel like im stuck in a dream anymore. im so scared. somebody please help me. i live my life in fear, worrying about everything i perceive. im exhausted. i can’t tell anyone because i don’t want them to worry, or think that im going crazy. that’ll only reinforce my fears.
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