Back after a year

[shadowme]

lately I’ve been doing well but suddenly these days I’ve been experiencing severe derealization and depersonalization. Its getting so bad to the point that i feel like I’m gonna lose my mind. Sometimes i look at myself in the mirror and i don’t even recognize myself. As I’m typing this everything feels very unreal but it comes and goes. I don’t know what to do with myself any one have tips on how to deal with it?

[OakTreeBlossom]

Hey there, I hope you’re ok today. When I was experiencing these symptoms I found selfies snd video recording myself really helped.

I would set up my camera in a corner of the room while I did an activity, usually playing with my kids, snd the resulting video would give me comfort that I was functioning ‘like a real person’ and that I could get back to myself.

Selfies helped me scour the picture looking for bits of me I could recognise without standing in front of a mirror (doing the same) because that would lead to a panic attack from the fear of not recognising myself.

And although I’m not sure how affective they were I would always practice grounding techniques like the 5-4-3-2-1 or resonate breathing (actually that last one really did help in panic).

Finally, I would go and stuck my feet in the ground literally. I would drive 2-3 hours to stick my feet in the sand and look at the horizon. If I didn’t have that much time I’d kick my shoes and socks off and stick my feet in the grass x