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Yes! I experience it the majority of my days unfortunately. I do also have extensive trauma
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It can't make you go crazy right ? I'm scared it's gonna make me go into full psychosis
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@Amagicmarie I'd say no, but you have to practice ERP to the thoughts of psychosis. Once you let go of the fear of becoming psychotic i think the DP DR symptoms will hopefully start to decrease :)
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@alexisrae1999 It's just hard bc dissociation makes me see things in a weird way and lose my memory
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@Amagicmarie Oh I totally feel that. It makes things feel like they never happened, right? Or that you're kind of observing the world and not actually living in it? I have been experiencing this for over 10 years. I just now learned about it and for the longest time I thought there was something severely wrong with me. Nope, just trauma/ocd. If you try to focus yourself and remind yourself the DP DR is just a symptom and is not actually you fading into existence, I promise you youll feel more in touch with everything. I was shocked at how quick the response was after doing ERP to it
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I believe so, Im sure Im experiencing some form of dissociation, Like I feel totally out of it and not enagaged in anything. My emotions, feelings, perception all feel weird.
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anybody else deal with this?😔
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I recently got diagnosed with OCD back in May of this year. What started it was a month prior, I took an SSRI which triggered an extremely intense couple of days due to panic attacks I’ve never had before. I’ve never had panic attacks but pretty intense anxiety. That’s when I started experiencing DPDR and hyper awareness. I’m good some days, but other days it’s so so hard. Especially because I have no one around me that understands. The DPDR and awareness of every feeling, thought, and just overall awareness of my existence gets really overwhelming. I feel like I’m losing my mind. It’s really hard to sit with my thoughts especially when they’re on a constant loop of every little thing I’m thinking and doing and on top of that feeling like I’m in a dream. I desperately just want to go back to how I was 4 months ago, but I know that’s just not possible right now. If anyone has experienced this and is doing much better now or even currently experiencing this please let me know! I need someone to relate to lol
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My OCD diagnosis is still very new, but now that I know what it is, it is clearly something I’ve had for as long as I can remember. Contamination/bugs and health have been a consistent theme since childhood, but religious/existential themes emerged during adolescence. Around that same time, there was also a good deal of trauma, and during middle school I started experiencing hallucinations. Tactile (like bugs crawling on me or biting me, an eyelash being stuck in my eye, but nothing was really there); visual (like moving shadows or things that would dart past in my periphery, and then I would just have intrusive thoughts of scary things around corners or under things); and auditory (an angry male voice that grumbles or yells indistinctly, or a high pitched noise like a microphone/speaker feedback but muffled and less sharp). Because of the religious denomination I grew up in, I initially assumed these were demons and tried to address it that way, but when I was 14 or 15, it occurred to me that those voices/sounds sounded like the way I felt, and the visual/tactile experiences happened during times of stress too — and so all of those experiences could just be seen as an expression of a fragmented part of myself. That acceptance didn’t make them go away — I still experience them now and I’m in my 30s — but it made those experiences less scary and more manageable. I also see now how these all pop up specifically when OCD obsessions are super triggered and when I’m super sleep deprived. Anyway! Since this diagnosis, and talking about the hallucinations at all, are new to me, I am wondering who else has had similar experiences. I don’t really know how much of the hallucination experience is OCD versus trauma, but it seems like this might all make sense under the “quasi-hallucination” label.
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