Is this depersonalization? -I feel like I don't recognize myself when I look at myself in the mirror. -Sometimes my movements don't feel like mine. -Feels as if Im inside someones head just watching them. -When I'm in a store I feel so tired and weird as if everyone is fake and the lights either feel so bright or very low. -Sometimes I feel like I don't recognize my family and It scares me because yesterday in a store I was with my sisters and I didn't feel like I recognized them and I was worried I would forget and go with a stranger but I know If I saw them In a crowd of people I would know it's them feels like if I don't... Confused if I'm loosing my memory. -I don't really feel like I'm here. -I sometimes don't even recognize my own home as if it isn't my house but I'm always here.

I experience something in my visual field that looks like static 24/7, could that be bc of my OCD? If you know, I am genuinely curious

@🌺Dem🌺 So i did a poll on reddit a while back (def a compulsion) and i asked to see if people experienced all these symptoms listed and 1/5 people with OCD said they experienced all the symptoms and like 3/5 said they experienced most of them. So i would say yes this can all come from OCD

@🌺Dem🌺 Alot of people describe it with other terms too like your color perception can go completely off, so some colors can be too bright, some too dull. Or it can be like looking at the world behind broken glass

@AJDCTX12 That does happen to me occasionally, as well

@🌺Dem🌺 Like i said its super common. On ali greymonds channel she said almost everyone with OCD will experience it when their anxiety is at a 10. So the key is doing ERP and finding ways to lower the anxiety. But if you have chronic dpdr, which is common in severe OCD, it can take up to 6 months or so for things to truly chill out. Its cus ur body is in the freeze response. It thinks its in life threatening danger so its keeping you there

@AJDCTX12 I am not sure what I am experiencing really is dpdr, but maybe all the static is bc of that?

@🌺Dem🌺 Id say its gonna be really hard to accept that it is, cus ocd makes us doubt everything. But most people with dpdr have some static.

@AJDCTX12 I just don't want to say that I have it without knowing that I actually do, yk, I don't want to "misdiagnose" an issue

@AJDCTX12 Thanks for answering tho ^^

@🌺Dem🌺 Ocd also can affect your feelings, thoughts and even perceptions. Meaning, whatever you fear, itll latch onto and use doubt against you. So like other people may have dpdr (75% of all people do at some point) at some point, but it goes away cus they dont take it seriously. With OCD we attach significance to it and start to go down thought spirals, focusing on every symptom and seeming them as something scary when we never used to

@🌺Dem🌺 Luckily dpdr isnt really something that needs to be diagnosed. Its an ocd symptom. As long as its not for reassurance, you can look up ali greymonds video on derealization

@AJDCTX12 Oh, alright, thank you :)