PLEASE READ I NEED HELP! please help me! I’m a 16 year old girl, and Okay I don’t wanna sound crazy but I feel insane. Okay so I have constant anxiety everyday and frequent panic attacks. It’s terrible going to sleep because I wake up a bunch of times during the night and I have vivid short dreams and it makes reality feel like a dream as well. I get thoughts when I’m out in public like “what if I’m not actually here right now” or if I’m talking to someone I get the fear that what if that persons not actually there... it causes anxiety and I get scared at the fact that part of me believes the thoughts... reality feels so fake and I have existential intrusive thoughts all day long!! I feel depressed all the time and I can’t get out of this vicious mindset. I’m so paranoid all the time and I’m SO emotional and cry all the time. I used to be sooo happy but I can’t silence the thoughts that turn into ridiculous scenarios in my head. I’m scared apart of me is comfortable like this... and it feels like I’m not gonna be able to get happy again. It’s reality not feeling real, the feeling like I’m dreaming, the fear of going insane, fear of drugs, fear of schizophrenia and existential thoughts that scare me the most. anyone else feel like this? I feel so alone ?

Ohhhh you poor thing!! I know E X A C T L Y how you feel and I can guarantee you’re not going crazy. You’re having derealization episodes which unfortunately a very common side effect of anxiety! I had derealization episodes for months until I got to the source of all of my stress. I talked to my psychiatrist and 1 in 20 people experience these episodes! They’re due to trauma and I promise they’re curable— I thought I’d be stuck in them forever when I was experiencing them but I promise you DO get better and you WILL get out of this, it just takes some time and getting used to. You are experiencing trauma of some sort and I highly encourage you try your best to recognize where that’s coming from. Please have faith that you will feel better and get out of this funk because I promise you will— I’m living proof for ya! :-) if you ever need anything, I am always here. It bums me out so badly to see someone else experiencing such a discomforting phenomena. You’ve got this, I know you do!! :-)

I’m the exactly the same :)

Going through the same thing at the moment. The thoughts seem so real. Please know that you are not going crazy, your brain is just working extra hard to find a problem to solve so it throws crazy thoughts at you. Everyone gets them, some just know how to shrug them off better then others. Stay strong???

I have a student who has described these exact same thoughts to me, almost exactly. You are NOT insane! I hope you can find some peace soon.

@carrie ahh I almost cried reading that, I’m sorry you went through this but I’m glad to know I’m not alone and that you felt something similar. Thank you so much??❤️❤️❤️❤️

@vache @hannie awe god bless you guys and I hope it goes away for all of us and were never alone?❤️

God bless you too?. We are never alone! We got this!

My mom says stuff like, we are living in a hologram and this is a dream, etc. And sometimes I think that too. But I don't really know what else I can possibly do with that information so I just forget about it for a while and then it comes back sometimes. Glad you are finding a place to share your experience. You don't have to do this alone.

@godbless you Angie u are not alone. I have terrible existential thoughts all the time

Awwww sweetie!!! So glad I could be there for ya and give you at least a little reassurance :-) thank you so much for your kind words! ❤️?

Ive been dealing with this and searched it. Sorry to ask about it but how are you? Ive been having the weirdest things happen to me and I fear I’m losing it.