Has anyone experienced derealization due to extreme stress and anxiety from intrusive thoughts? I had an episode of derealization back in 2021 after intrusive thoughts about health and getting cancer and now after a lot of intrusive thoughts about harm which caused me unexplainable about of anxiety, life doesn't feel real anymore. I've been feeling like this for two days now. So i'm either going crazy or experience derealization
I had it at the start of my Existential theme. DPDR certainly made it worse for me.
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@Anoniem Totally agree 👍🏻 it helped me.
Yeah I have. It sucks im so sorry.
Yeah. I deal with it daily. You have to accept the feelings. The more you fight them the more they stay. If things feel like a dream. Enjoy the dream. Don’t fight it. You can’t do much about it.
Ive had that. It is scary but it will pass. I wish I had advice but I have dealt with that.
I have it sometimes and it’s scary. It will pass. I take life one day at a time and look forward to small things
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
i came out of it now i’m back in , what helps?
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