Derealization or Alzheimer's

[Jq0323]

How old do people be when they develop Alzheimer's...I'm 23 but I feel like i might be developing Alzheimer's or something or is this just derealization? Everything around me seem so unfamiliar..feel like i have to learn everything all over again...

[HopingCat]

That's derealization.... I been in that hell for 3 months. And I always said it feels like I have to learn everything all over again too. Everything is weird like dream. The brain is on sleep mode stuck in fight or flight to protect you. It had enough of stress/anxiety and it alters reality. It's damn terrifying. I have been doing everything in my power to snap out of the crap. I read a lot of recovery stories and gives me hope. Also, people on here that dealt with it give great advice. I got like this 3 months ago after fighting off panic attacks. I was a hot mess when it started but now I'm able to function with a lot of ignore power. It sucks. I take magnesium and other vitamins to see if it helps whatever imbalance this damn brain has. Yoga, meditation, exercise, comomile tea and lavender tea, aroma therapy, socializing, keep busy seem to help me too.

[Jq0323 in reply to HopingCat]

HopingCat I was scared i might have alzheimers even tho I'm so young...but I'm happy to know it's just DR it all started after i had a panic attack i feel like i can get over this soon I have been ignoring it and i feel better so hopefully it be gone in a month or two...I have hope...and I hope you feel better soon too...this came out of no where for me and it scared me so bad I couldn't eat, work, or leave the house but I feel like I'm slowly but surely getting baack to my normal self...

[HopingCat in reply to Jq0323]

Me too. Out of knowhere. I didn't have anxiety or depression. All I did was thinking about something and Bam.. got it. The weirdnest thing. When it started I was a hot mess. Couldn't get out of bed for 2 weeks, didn't eat, lost weight, and my brain felt like it was in a big fog. I got depressed. Finally went to the doctors after 2 weeks of well and got Zoloft. Zoloft took the weird thought about life away (not completely) and the fog was gone. I was only on Zoloft for 6 weeks and came off. Anyways, if you find anything to get you out this hell faster let me know. I will do the same.

[Jq0323 in reply to HopingCat]

HopingCat I have been dealing with this for like a month I have not taken any medication or anything I just been dealing with it and i can say I feel like each day is getting better I can eat now I can sleep but I only sleep for like 4 hours and i feel rested which is strange..at first I was having twitches all on my body and tingling feeling in my head and nose I was nerves every morning when i woke up and i was scared to be left alone..I don't know if im recovering or getting use to it...it feel like both lolI just want this whole derealization to go away I am only 23 and i feel like my life has just really begun and i feel like derealization has ended my life but I will do wateva i need to do to get over this..

[HopingCat in reply to Jq0323]

That was me. I actually didn't sleep for 9 weeks and in the morning I was wide awake like nothing. I will close my eyes and lay for hours and thoughts were just coming in and no sleep. Then finally started getting like 3 hours of sleep and the dreams felt like reality while reality still feels like a dream, you get it? Buzzing sensentain in my brain and everything will send me to panic. Go down my post. Start with the very first one. I was a mess. Now almost 3 months later I am eating and sleeping but still in a haze. It sucks. I want to say I am better than I was when this first started but the feeling is so horrible that it won't even let me do that.

[Jq0323 in reply to HopingCat]

Sound like you are recovering before you know it you will be back to your normal self..you have came along way...how old are you if you don't mind me askin?

[HopingCat in reply to Jq0323]

36..... I am a roller coaster. My good days are me fighting off that terrified fake feeling. And my bad days are me going back to fearing. It is a long road and it sucks

[HopingCat in reply to Jq0323]

Are you pretty much just trying to ignore it? Mine sends me to panic. I pause to look around and I started freaking out. If I don't stop myself I get this brain buzzing that travels all over me body and then I stop feeling my body and go straight into tunnel vision like a dream.

[Jq0323 in reply to HopingCat]

Yeah I ignore it and i try not to look around only time i can time i feel normal is when im talking to someone when im distracted I don't notice it but as soon as I get by myself in focus on how I'm feeling and how everything look HopingCat

[Jq0323]

I feel lightheaded all the time..feel like i have a lot of pressure in my head do you have that symptom HopingCat

[HopingCat in reply to Jq0323]

Yep. Not with no headache. It's like my head is full of cotton or something. I don't even know how to discribe it.

[Jq0323 in reply to HopingCat]

I hate are the magnesium still working for u

[HopingCat in reply to Jq0323]

It has helped That's for sure

[Jq0323 in reply to HopingCat]

Where can I get it from

[HopingCat in reply to Jq0323]

The vitamin shop