Indescribable thought or feeling

[Witchoo]

Hi guys,

lately I've been bothered by being overcome by either a thought or feeling where everything feels mutated and complicated and abstract and nuanced. It's very hard to describe. It's like my perception becomes warped and I'm not sure if it's a thought or a feeling or something worse like a disability developing.

for example, I could be looking a box and knowing it's a box .. but then all of a sudden out of nowhere something appears, I feel in my mind, that feels alien and packed with so much stuff that i can't describe or name any part of what's happening to me. It's like something shifts and nothing computes and I feels frustrated and terrified because of it.

I wasn't even sure where to post this, but I have had a few panic attacks this year so I'm hoping it's an anxiety symptom.

Though because I can't describe it really, I can't research about it or find anyone else that knows what I'm talking about. I guess it's swift periods where my perception of every thing (object, word, thought, concept etc) becomes warped and impossible to comprehend or deal with. I feel lost, inhuman and mentally ill because of it.

It's like someone tapping you on the shoulder every now and then for months and not being able to see what it is, even once.

Despite how dark this all may sound, I'm otherwise keeping positive and holding hope.

If someone could help me out, they'd be a God. :hugs:

Thank you.

[NervousTracey]

I understand how your feeling yo a point. With my anxiety I think I don't know a word or I can't describe something or I will 've watching tv and someone will say something odd that I won't get and it will just terrify me.

I think anxiety liked to make us think that we can't cope with something when we can when I used to get anxious at meal times i used to think I couldn't hold a knife a d fork which k could. Try to be kind to your self when this happens

[saturn2k]

I have only just joined this forum, and can see that your posting was a year ago. Was just wondering how you are going ? Did you get any answers to your questions from doctors ? Can I just tell you a question my psychologist asked me but I didn't quite understand what he meant at the time, but later I could say that my answer was no to his question.. he asked if at times I felt dissociated.

'Some of the symptoms of dissociation as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) are:

A major inability to remember personally-relevant events in a way that can't be accounted for by regular forgetfulness or a medical condition (amnesia)

Confused and dazed wandering (known as a dissociative fugue)

Two or more identities or personality traits within a single person

Transfer of behavioral control to each identity

Feelings that objects in the external world are changing in shape and size

Feeling that people are automated and inhuman'

Dissociation Treatment

The primary treatment for dissociation involves psychotherapy (sometimes called "talk" therapy). During psychotherapy, your experiences of dissociation will be discussed and new coping techniques will be taught. Once new coping techniques have be learned and are effective, the initial trauma that caused the start of the dissociation symptoms will likely be discussed in an attempt to deal with it and move past it.

Medications may be prescribed by a doctor, not for Dissociation , but for the symptoms.

Hope all is well.