Hey Guys, after a traumatic event I had a feeling/thought if things around me are real or that I am not real. Ever since I have been obsessed with that thought. I have felt detached from my environment. But I know disassociation and derealization are triggered with anxiety. But I still feel this way when I'm not anxious. Can my thought obsession about feeling disconnected make me feel disconnected? Thanks!

I've been trying to figure this out myself and I've been finding myself desperate to cry, but unable to. Recently, I heard someone mention watching dramas/movies helped her to distract and to cry. Though I'm unsure if it will be a solution, I plan to try this out and I hope to see a result.

I have a similar theme. Yes I think they are both connected. I just recently found out about derealization. I always thought my ocd thought was that I’m in a dream and my life is going on somewhere else, but I’m thinking that that how I associated the anxiety at the time. I think it was derealization. Was was fine for like 10 years. I even had moments when I was like” omg I can’t believe I used to think that” and then it started again about a year ago

That was my biggest fear and anxiety for many many years. I remember myself at the age of 11 having this horrible feeling or thought that i was not living in reality. It was so weird and i immediately started being afraid and extremely stressed. For many years I was not telling anybody because i thought it was stupid and they wouldn't understand me. I believed that I had an extreme imagination and that was causing that thought,but that was not the cause of course. I spent long periods of severe depression until.one day I spoke about it to my husband and he told me just not to worry or be afraid and that it is ok to just have weird thoughts or feelings. I think just the thing that I finally talked to someone about my worry helped me not feeling alone and helpless. Speak to anyone you think can just listen to you with love and support. If you cannot get over your thought you can try to visit a therapist. We deserve a better life!

I have the same problem. I have physcosis, ocd, rocd, and really bad anxiety. I try to pay attention to everything around me at all time. I pay attention to all of my senses. If I'm around a blanket I feel my blanket and it helps me somewhat.

You may actually have a theme on this if you obsess and do compulsions. With me, I used to wake up in the morning and tell myself 'it's fine' and sometimes I felt fine, sometimes I really didn't deel fine and it was all so unreal. After s couple of months I was really just crying and want this all to end. Eventually it went away but not because I stopped thinking about it. But when it did went away I stopped.