I need to talk to someone who has derealisation and depersonalization

[Jason1234567]

I feel like I'm living this alone it would really help if I could talk to someone who has this condition so we can exchange our experiences with this terrible thing.

[Pamdon81]

Hiya Jason you can talk to me I have dp/dr

[Jason1234567 in reply to Pamdon81]

Hi how do you feel?

[worrierintowarrior]

You can message me , I have it

[Pamdon81]

I feel like I'm in a dream, living inside my head, the usual dp/dr symptoms, I find it annoying and frustrating, I don't fear it, it's a symptom of my anxiety, I had a bad childhood and other things that has ha in my life, I got mine after my anxiety got got very severe. My head always feels full of stress, it's got a lot better. I had a mental breakdown not long ago and my dp got so severe I felt like an alien on this planet, I was so disconnected from my body, it was really freaky, which made me panic more. Anyways now it's not so bad, I don't let it get in the way of me living life. How do you feel?

[Jason1234567 in reply to Pamdon81]

I feel really bad, I have lost my job everything is just going so wrong. It feels like in fight or flight mode all the time. My mind feels so slow, and it feels everyone is talking about me.

[Ragdoll15 in reply to Pamdon81]

I feel the same as you describe. So reassuring that you are so positive about it, and not letting it ruin your life - I think it's the worst symptom of anxiety, not feeling like you are in the feel world and living in a dreamlike state. I also suffered with this after a nervous breakdown. Are you taking any meds for it? I have been on so many but they only seem to make me feel worse.

[Jason1234567 in reply to Ragdoll15]

No meds

[Jason1234567]

Feels like I'm getting dementia

[Pamdon81]

Did you get dp/dr because of anxiety? How did it all start? Remember dp is because your brain needs a rest of all the anxiety and feeling of fear, your brain has gone in protective mode. How long have you had it for? I know it's horrible feeling, like the devil has took your soul, but remember it's only a feeling and accept this feeling without putting more fear on top, I know it's like a vicious circle, you need to break the cycle. I read a book by Claire weeks which is really helping me, I know how you feel, it's soul destroying, but don't let it win, you need to calm the mind and body, meditation is really good, listening to music, you need to change the thoughts as well, bad thoughts equals more anxiety, except it all like carrying a annoying child everywhere with you and you don't give a damn about it! Sort out the things in your life that are making you stressed, don't beat ur self up about losing your job, your going through a bad time with your mental health, it's time to put yourself first and look after ya self, and have you got family to tell about your anxiety? Please don't suffer on ur own... I'm here to listen and talk to ya Jason 👍😊

[Jason1234567]

Thank u. I have had it for exactly a year now. My family does not understand because they are not westernized. It's just getting worse and its hard to get a job when I'm like this. I got my first therapy next week hopefully it would be the start of something. I worry so much because my mums not well either she has got early onset alzheimers and she has been a worrier too all her life.

[Pamdon81]

Sorry to hear about your mam, that must be very stressful, I'm on medication for my anxiety, I don't separate dp, I see it as a symptom of anxiety just like stress headaches and butterflies in tummy, it's very scary and lonely to have dp, no one will understand it unless you have it, it's such a strange and weird thing. When I first got it, I thought no one in the world would feel like me, having this unreal feeling, medication won't just takeaway the dp, you have to find the root cause of it. I'm on venlafaxine after my nervous breakdown, my breakdown was horrendous, I felt like a little person in my head controlling my body, I was in 24/7 fear and panic, I didn't know who I was anymore, I didn't recognise my family but I knew who they were! I wanted to die! It was so freaking weird! ☹️ Don't go looking for answers to 'cure' dp, just except it as best you can.

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It will go you need to desensitise yr self

You ll feel as if your not here or could be in a place eating and anything seem

Strange disintigrated

If walking feel as if watching yourself

[Fireengine1]

Hiya Jason you are not alone but that doesn't help, I have the same, I have bouts where I am driving along and I feel odd as you will know, and if I try hard I can wait it out then I can carry on. However there are times when am not aware of what I am doing, and if my wife wasn't with me to snap me out of it I would have had an accident. I am sure there is something else going on, I hope you don't have the same? Do you take medication for it?.

[Jason1234567]

No meds what you think that somethings going on?

[Daninicole22]

I have it, has gotten worse in the last month. I have felt like I am not even here or I’m away from myself at all times. I had a nervous breakdown basically in February and I had to quit my job, and I’ve been going through many bad things since then. I’ve been to many ERs doctors and was talking to a therapist awhile ago but that stopped, I am suppose to be seeing a psychiatrist ASAP so I can figure out my medication I need to be on. I have only been taking Clonazepam when needed since May and I feel I haven’t been taking it correctly and has only made my symptoms worse? It sucks. But no that you aren’t alone!