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Does anyone ever feel at odds with your own body?

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Its probably a symptom of anxiety but it is truly weird. Sometimes I feel like someone switched out my whole house. The furniture is all of a sudden too short. The remote is so small. Even the cat got small. My favorite cup doesn't hold enough. What's going on? Have I slipped into another dimension? Again? When did the toilet get so low to the ground? The stove & sink have been lowered. Yet my shoes are very loose as are my pants & shirt. What is happening? I take a migraine pill and in about 1/2 hour it all goes back to normal. Jeez Louise! I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Eat me & grow big. Drink this & grow small. Cut it out!

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Hello "Alice"

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Sure, far too often. I wonder if some of this isn't depersonalization or derealization. Both of those things can accompany anxiety.

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Absolutely !

Thought it was just me!

I am tall, but in these moments I feel positively gigantic!

I have these ‘episodes ‘ from time to time but had never even considered they could be anxiety related! I do suffer from Chronic migraines, with very mixed up auras, so had been more inclined to think that this could be some kind of manifestation of these. Hard to tell of course as, when my anxiety is particularly high, the migraines are inevitably much more frequent!

I also have a bizarre feeling of the house subsiding! Drive my OH mad by constantly dragging him to the window to look at the decking that I keep thinking is at a greater angle than usual, or to look at ceilings! Lots of weird changes in perception!

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I would not use the bathroom in my bedroom cause the was moving.

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the floorthe floor was moving

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At the expense of someone else’s misery, I have to say I enjoyed your personal rendition of what it’s like to be Alice. Does the Mad Hatter come in to play?❤️🏄‍♀️

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Don't worry about the Hatter, it's the Red Queen ( of hearts) you have to watch out for a ☺😊

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❤️

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But didn't the Eagles warn "Don't draw the Queen of Diamonds. She'll break heart if she can"

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Yup. Did Desperado listen? " Don't you draw the Qeen Diamonds boy she'll hurt you in the end. The Queen of Hearts is always your best friend..." My own once upon a time " theme song of my life back in the mid 70's

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I never get the lyrics right. You should hear me sing in the car. lol Nobody likes that. I was asked to leave the children's choir at age 6. I got the many ways to serve God speech. Fast forward about 20 yrs, we were in a great dive bar with a acoustic guitar player. We sang tv theme songs all night. At one point a HUGE man with barbed wire tatooed on his neck stumbled up to me, gave me a dollar & said "Honey, don't sing." Oh for pity's sake! We were just having fun! Green Acres is the place for me! Car 54 Where Are You? F Troop. I guess my dolcette tones ruined the fun. lol You know you love me!

Then at my granddaughters 1st b-day my other granddaughter insisted I sing Happy B-Day with everyone else. I told her I can't sing. She said Everyone can sing.

So cake came out, we sang & candles were blown out. #2 grandchild turns to me and says with total shock "You really can't sing can you."

I did try to warn you.

💩

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I suspect he is behind this whole thing 🐇🐇🐇

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It's the rabbits fault!

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The Mad Hatter? He’s always lurking somewhere.....

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Naaaah he's harmless ...

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Harmless you say? You don’t know him like Alice does.

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He's fun. Do you know where the expression came from Mad Hatter? I'll tell you cause I can & you can't stop me. Back in the 1800's or so the men who made hats used a chemical to get them to retain their shape. It worked really well except that it destroyed brain cells. So the longer you were a hatter the madder you became. True story.

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The chemical was Mercury

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Aw more lyrics

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