Depersonalization/Derealization :(

[brithsn]

Anybody here with Anxiety ever experienced depersonalization/derealization?

I'm really struggling not to freak out. I feel like nothing is real, I feel as though I'm not inside my own body and I feel as though I can't feel anything on my own body as well.

I know it does't help to dwell on it, but I can't help it. I feel trapped and it's one of the worst feelings I've ever felt. I'm scared to sleep because I fear I won't wake up.

If anyone has any helpful tips I would greatly appreciate it. This is terrifying for me.

[kinikia95]

Yes I have had that. Not recently thank God but it's the worst. I think it helps to connect to Something Real. If you can talk to some people about mundane things sometimes it can take you out of your head and put you back into reality. Of course you're in the real world already and nothing is actually wrong per se but it feels bad and I've found that distraction is the best help. Takes you out of that weird headspace. And as simple as this sounds if you can go to sleep you may feel better when you wake up. Working on my bills helps. That's some reality for me for sure.

[kevoreally]

Depersonalization and derealization is such a terrible thing and to experience it every second really sucks

Sadly this world is real.. sadly this pain we feel is real.. we all bleed the same color..

Im not from your thoughts you didnt create me

My favorite color is blue could you have created me? Nope not a chance if you did youd know everything about me

The sky is blue if it was a different color then maybe you created it that way but you didnt because its blue

I have a full time job is hat because you gave me one or because I handed in an application with MY name on it that I WAS GIVEN at MY BIRTH

You are NOT from my mind because I do NOT know a thing about you

Cars trains planes how in the world could we have IMAGINED them?

Our interactions are as real as real gets you dont think of what your gonna say and how your gonna be someone else and answer it that would be beyond confusing..

Time.. time waits for no one.. if time didnt exist youd be FROZEN but time passed us by like there was no tomorrow

What else is there to IMAGINE or CREATE in our endless minds?

Whats our purpose in life? Rather than pondering WHAT why not CREATE your purpose? Be yhe LIGHT in someone elses darkest tunnel?

Take your darkness and the light you have and be someone elses LIGHT

Your hobbies if you dont have one find one somethjng you like doing so it more often

Dont question wha life is but instead enjoy it dont question if this world is real or fake

So what if its fake? Your breathing you bleed

You have many choices in life

everything and everyone has a reason to be herr in this world and one main reason is to be kind and spread love

You can do it its easy smiling and making someone laugh is spreading kindess showing someonee love is spreading love

This world is real buddy existence is REAL you damn well did not CREATE ME nor did ou know what id say or anything other than YOU and your family and friends

I suffere time to time with DP/DR

And i always feel we are in a simulation or a snow globe minus the snow depending in the weather but guess what WHO CARES

I am breathing i can bleed i can breed IM GOOD WITH THAT

Be well my friend be well and be kind and live love laugh!

Time waits for no one so get moving!

[CopingwithEx]

I have this exact symptom on the daily, it's terrifying and it feels like you're trapped inside your own body, but believe me, you're not alone. If you ever need to speak to someone we're here !

[Nanfranz]

About two years ago I had my first experience with this derealization. I was shopping for a piece of good used furniture and had just entered a lovely house where they were having an estate sale. I was feeling perfectly normal when out of the blue everything felt unreal -- the house and contents, the people . . . , as though I wasn't really there. I left immediately and drove home, wondering if perhaps I'd been allergic to something in that house, and in a short time I was back to normal, but it had really shaken me up. Since then I've had a number of brief and less intense episodes -- often when in conversation with someone, or in a busy store, and I find that if I reach out and connect with something real, the sensation passes. For example, when speaking or listening to someone, I casually reach out and hold onto a chair or any other nearby item . . . this helps me feel anchored and reality returns in a few seconds.

[KaylaN]

I have had this for a month and two other times in the past. I can’t handle it and haven’t been able to leave my bed. It is causing me to become so depressed and scared. Doesn’t help that I’m 25 weeks pregnant it’s from anxiety I guess ? I got on paxil last time and it went away but I I had to get off of it because I pregnant and it came back 20 weeks later. I ended up back on paxil it’s been 4 weeks and I don’t feel any better there is nothing worse in the entire world than this feeling and I thought I beat it, twice but here I am again during he best time of my life. Sorry you are going threw it too. I guess I can just give you hope with that I had it twice and it went away both times