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It will get better I dealt with it nonstop for 2 years important thing is to live and focus on what’s in front of you
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I've had it for over a year... I can't remember what normal feels like or how I used to see and feel. Especially a video I saw made me feel weird which made me feel more disconnected. I hope it does go away!
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You have to get to the root fear. Not 100% sure but I feel like you are struggling with understanding your identity. Just like all OCD people this is normal for all of us. Most of us have been trained up with pain, humiliation, shame, guilt and rejection surrounding us. Am I correct? My advice would be, become more grounded in love. Treat yourself with mercy and compassion and love and don’t put yourself down. Depersonalization happens to all of us and it’s just a feeling not reality. Deep down inside, I know you know that this is real life and not fake, the root is what we have to work through and realize. Stay strong!!! Love you <3 ❤️
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Yes you are correct for the part that said "am I correct?" Correct... And wait so its a feeling not actually like real... Oh okay I see what you mean. Thank you so much! :') I now wonder if existential thoughts make it worst like I think of how we're all in a planet, and we're alive basically questioning the uncertainty okay I see my problem 😅 but Thank you so much!!
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@Mayte All the glory goes to God!! :)
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I have this same thing. I hate it. But I also realized that ocd had attached to the derealization... so all that questioning... does this feel normal? Is it worse? Etc... that is ocd. Do ERP with those thoughts... maybe things are normal your ocd is just making you question it... maybe things don't feel normal... erp with this has helped. Stay present and keep on task with what ever you're doing. And just let those thoughts come and go and sit with the anxiety and uncertainty
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Thank you so much!! And I will for sure just try to sit with the anxiety and uncertainty! ☺
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I’ve dealt with this alottttt it FUCKINT sucks it’ll pass after awhile just try to cope as best as u can
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Hey I saw you on another post. Would love to know about the type of stuff you think about cause I’m wondering if I’m the only one lol
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I get this to like I’m detached from rest of the family and the world like I don’t know who I am anymore I fill in a daze and a fog and stuck in my head in my Owen scary world I look in the mirror and don’t know who looking back at me it so scary I thought I was someone called Clair not my reall self or name
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- 22w
i can’t cope with the fact that i’m alive. i am currently 3 1/2 weeks into prozac 40mg feeling nothing with 0.1mg clonidine daily for anxiety attacks. i have heavy derealization and can’t tell what around me is real and fake. please someone tell me it gets better.
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I know I am going a bit cuckoo because my period is coming up, but lately it feels like every intrusive thought I have, I *like* it. Like I genuinely feel like I like it, and then I immediately panic because I start checking. Mentally, emotionally, whatever it is. And I know that is a compulsion. I *know* that. But it feels so real that I cannot stop myself. Every single time I check, it still feels like I like the thought, and it is driving me absolutely insane. It is especially the POCD thoughts. They feel so real. I feel like something is going on mentally, like some kind of confusion or glitch, because I swear I was not like this before. I would have intrusive thoughts, and they would feel real, but not *this* real. And I do not even know if this is normal. I know OCD is **supposed** to feel convincing. That is the whole thing. But I have never experienced it to this extreme. I have never gotten the same thought so many times and still felt like, “Oh my God, I did enjoy it,” even after checking a million times. It is like no matter how many times I check, it feels like I liked it. Especially during intimacy :( and it is making me lose it. Then I start thinking, “Well, I am in distress, so maybe that is proof it is not actually me.” But right after, I am like, “What if I am only panicking because I care about what society thinks and not because I actually have morals?” And then I spiral again, wondering if maybe I just care about how I am seen rather than who I am. I am panicking so much no today. I had to take my Xanax today for the first time in two months, and I needed three separate doses. I really need some support right now.
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- 15w
I’m trying so hard to feel normal again but i cant i keep feeling like im being dramatic and that my symptoms aren’t real and im tricking everyone, even on here i feel like im tricking you all into believing i have OCD when i don’t. Plus all these other types thoughts im having all meshing together its so overwhelming and i dont know what to do. My therapist appointment isnt until next week and idek what shes gonna tell me or if she’ll even think i have OCD. i keep thinking about my other posts on here and wondering if i even meant what i said in them. this is the worst ive ever felt i think i might even be going through depersonalization or derealization but im not even sure about that i dont even know anything about what im really going through cause ive never been given any kind of formal diagnosis its only ever been depression and social anxiety but ive always had a feeling it was more but i keep doubting myself. maybe if anyone wants to look at some of my other posts and tell me what u think in general? or would that be reassurance seeking? i feel like most of my posts might be but im not sure.. IM NOT SURE ABOUT ANYTHING! this is so annoying
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