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- Carrie
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- 6y ago
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- Cat_attack Cat_attack
- Date posted
- 6y ago
You’re not. I suffer from depersonalization. It is terrifying to not know what it really happening to feel so out of your body all the time.
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- CarrieCarrie
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I had an anxiety attack and was wondering why bad people/bad events exist which led me to be paranoid that everyone around me maybe wasn’t actually real. I of course KNOW that everyone is real, quite obviously, but my brain was trying to mess with me :-(
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- Cat_attack Cat_attack
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- 6y ago
Yes it can result in you feeling like people aren’t real. I often panic in stores because they’re mad of these walls of wood with shelves of plastic with things of plastic we put into a metal cart to buy with a piece of plastic. To someone who is not in the state of mind we are in, in these moments that doesn’t make sense. I can understand how we would appear crazy. But I don’t think that’s it. I honestly think it’s a hypersensitive level of awareness of the world and what it really is. Most people choose to ignore that. The best thing I’ve found is to be outside where things are “real” try to spend at least 30 minutes outside a day. Even if it’s just sitting on the grass. Grounding exercises are where you physically put your feet in the grass because it helps “ground you” meaning you get back a sense of reality. Think about that. Therapists have to tell people to do grounding exercises, this just proves we spend too much time in a false reality. And you’re not going nuts carrie. It’s that your ocd over thinks everything which makes you aware of things other simple minded people are oblivious too
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- hrbett3hrbett3
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Hey!! You can find me on Instagram @forestfairyyoga I’m only mentioning that because you can talk to me there and because I’ve made a few posts specifically about the things I’ve learned that helped me stop being so scared during derealization episodes. I can find them myself and send them to you so you don’t have to go searching if you’d like! They can be so terrifying, but I PROMISE your body is okay! And you are okay!! I wish you allll the best!!
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- hrbett3hrbett3
- Date posted
- 6y ago
@melanie_27 Yes!! I love that advice so much!!
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- Cat_attack Cat_attack
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- 6y ago
But you’re not losing your mind I promise.? listen to the Mr. Mister song Kyrie Eleison. Which means lord have mercy down the road that I must travel. I think this is happening just because it’s going to make you who YOU were always meant to be. You can do it because you have no choice, but that doesn’t have to be bad. I hate OCD but it is making me into the me I was destined to be. As will it be for you.
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- holytropical!
- Date posted
- 5y ago
(HELP PLEASE) So my depersonalization/derealization has gotten so bad I’m actually scared for my life and I don’t know if I’m ever going to go back to normal I’m freaking out about it. I feel so unreal and vision is so blurry, I feel like I can go insane any second and that feeling is causing me so MUCH anxiety. I don’t know what to do anymore guys, this is a HORRIBLE theme I’m having because it’s not just mental, it’s physical, I feel so many ugly symptoms because of the derealization! Help someone please!
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- holley
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- 3y ago
hey guys! it’s been awhile. i am severely anxious and depressed and have been for about a month and a half ever since i smoked weed, had a panic attack and now suffer real bad with derealization. i wanted to come on here to ask like what i can do to help myself and just make this go away man! and i know here is a safe space because we all have OCD and i think that pure fact is keeping me in the loop. other people with derealization don’t obsess over stuff as much as people with ocd. i also just think that i’ll forever be stuck in this state and it’s causing me to just like go crazy (not literally) i just don’t understand how ONE panic attack could’ve caused this. disclaimer: i’ve never had a panic attack in my life and while i was high for the first time that’s when it happened and the days and weeks following i just haven’t felt the same even though i KNOW nothing hasn’t changed it’s just so hard. i just don’t know what to do to lie get rid of this. i’ve never experienced this in my life.
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- maryel04
- Date posted
- 50w ago
Obsessing over reality
I have been going through a really hard time lately in regard to my existential ocd. Not only that but my health anxiety has been horrible. What I wanted to bring up to see if a conversation could be had was my derealization. I have been having severe random bouts of derealization that are genuinely starting to feel debilitating. The best way I can describe it is I get sick to my stomach when I think about life, being alive, I convince myself im in a dream, that im stuck in a time loop and nothing around me is real and that ive been making up my entire life. With this also comes the intense feeling that everything has already happened before, its like deja vu but almost worse. I will be in moments lately and every single thing feels like it already happened, then that spirals into me believing nothing is real and im stuck in some kind of dream. Everything feels familiar, everything had already happened, sometimes stuff feels so familiar it genuinely will make me start to throw up because im so scared. Can someone please have a discussion with me and just let me know if theyve felt this way, what I should do, and if itll ever get better? Im genuinely convinced life will feel this way forever and im never going to be okay with being alive again and it genuinely makes me feel insane and so terrified. Thank you.
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