- Date posted
- 46w ago
I don't feel real nowadays
I am doubting my existence, my surroundings like i am not even able to figure out what am I questioning what is life? Am in a dream? Like aaahhhhh! Or am I healing?
I am doubting my existence, my surroundings like i am not even able to figure out what am I questioning what is life? Am in a dream? Like aaahhhhh! Or am I healing?
Totally have these thoughts and feelings from time to time. At first they were constant. I felt like I was going crazy. I did ERP for those existential fears and now the derealization only pops up about once a month. Almost like a monthly cycle. When it happens I do exposures. The feeling is only there because your focus is so turned in on your inner thoughts that you’re not paying attention to the outside world. OCD likes to run with that feeling and concoct all these existential reasons why you’re feeling that way. A mistake I made early in treatment was thinking I had to believe the thoughts in order to do a proper exposure. Instead, when you doubt your existence, try to make an exposure where you say “maybe, maybe not” and go on living as if reality is real. So live with the uncertainty of not knowing if your worst fear is true. Basically dropping the question and living life in spite of not knowing. It gets better and easier with practice. You’ve got this!
Thankyou so much for the wonderful advice i hope you stay healthy and happy 😁✨ this sounds difficult at first but yeah I'll try my best
I had this when I was 18.. I didn’t know what it was lo and behold at the age of 34 I realised it was OCD. Now I didn’t know I had it and happily carried on my life until late last year I had a bout of it with a rather horrible theme. Derealisation / depersonalisation is what I had. It was like everything was made up? Like I was watching myself, Truman show style. But one day I remember just saying to myself I accept it whatever, real hard acceptance… when I no longer fought it, it went. Not saying that this is true for everyone but just my experience. Get some exposure and practice acceptance in the present, that’s really where you need to be tuning into xx
Ah, is it derealisation?
I think it is but my thoughts are superstitious as well so does derealisation and superstition can go along as well?
@happiness._.123 - Yes it can.
@Anonymous813 Will this feeling go away?
@happiness._.123 - I haven’t dealt with this but from what I have heard is that with therapy and meds, it goes away. Also there are videos on YouTube. on how to tackle this. There are many more. Here are some links : https://youtu.be/P9qJFm95n3Q?si=fSCPhKJt5YupCfR1 https://youtu.be/Xzl63ra2oBw?si=A8laTOHMEUjc4qAF You can search up books on derealisation to help you cope.
@happiness._.123 - I haven’t dealt with this but from what I have heard is that with therapy and meds, it goes away. Also there are videos on YouTube. on how to tackle this. There are many more. Here are some links : https://youtu.be/P9qJFm95n3Q?si=fSCPhKJt5YupCfR1 https://youtu.be/Xzl63ra2oBw?si=A8laTOHMEUjc4qAF You can search up books on derealisation to help you cope.
@Anonymous813 Thanks alot buddy, i appreciate it alot I hope you stay healthy and happy always ✨😁
honestly- is anything ACTUALLY real? Scientists are confirming we live in a matrix... simulation, etc. so... maybe you aren't odd for questioning existence... just the sheeple who don't know/believe that think you're "crazy" or whatever if you mention it.
I don't know what's real. I don't know who I am, I don't know if everything I believe is made up, all my emotions, my memories..it feels fake, I'm stressed the fuck out because I can't even tell if my past is real
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
I’ve been feeling so disconnected lately, like I’m not even living my own life. It’s like I’m being controlled by someone else, and I have no say in what’s happening. It’s hard to put this feeling into words, but it’s like I’m here physically, but mentally, I’m just... not. Every day feels like a struggle. I wake up afraid of what’s coming next, almost like I’m bracing myself for the next bad thing to happen. Sometimes, I don’t even want to get out of bed because it feels pointless, like I’m stuck in this loop of fear and doubt. I keep questioning everything, life, my purpose, my choices, and it’s exhausting. I just want to feel like myself again, to feel like I have control, like I’m really here.
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