Feelings!

[Cornishwaves247]

I feel like I'm living in a subconscious world. Is this normal and will it pass? I'm hoping it does I don't understand how it passes, will I wake one day and I actually feel like a I'm in the world? I want to feel like myself again now!!

[Hidden]

Try putting de-realisation/de-personalisation in Google....

[Kirk5w7]

Hi, I can't remember just when " I" returned but basically looking back I think it did just happen suddenly. One day I looked in the mirror and I looked back, does that make sense?

I explained it like feeling I was an onlooker into my life. When I looked at myself in a mirror I knew the person looking back was me but it was like I was having an out of body experience.

I think it was around the 2 year mark I did post on here when it happened but it was around 3 years ago.

Janet x

[neilhapgood]

Yeah that sense of dislocation is a mad part of it. It does pass, I didn't have a lightbulb moment but slowly you start to realise you are someone again, different to before but a sense of self. I tried to explain it in a website I put together which may be of interest - braininjuryftp.com

[Tony-Muzzy]

Hello. I have to admit I lived my life for long periods as if it was like the programme 'Life on mars'.

I think as long as you're fully informed of all the aftermath issues & you gain the correct support this feeling will pass.

The brain has been shocked, in time with a carefull, gentle & loving approach you will see through this.

Just have something I never had! Patience with yourself & just embrace the feelings around your frustrations but step back from them & don't get all stressed about them. If the negative creeps in with anxiety & depression, things can get tougher.

[Towards_Healing]

Oh yes... Feelings like you are outside looking in. I remember feeling as if I probably did not have a soul since my brain injury had destroyed so much of 'me', therefore the 'me' must have been only a reflection of my brain. It passed. It took a long time for me, almost two years I must say. In the beginning, I was always in a state of daydreaming, and my brain was not waking up from this state. It was awful. And like many others, ten years ago there was not a lot of online support like today, so I was alone and scared that I would never get back to be normal again. Your brain will come back to a state where you will feel a new normal, and perhaps even feel as if nothing ever happened. You have to be patient. And if I can give you the best advice, is rest your brain from phone and computer screen, and television. Like a strained muscle, your brain need to rest as much as possible to heal to the best of it's capacity. Good luck. We are here for you.

[Hidden]

Hi,

V.S Ramachandran raises this in his Leith Lectures (5 of them on you tube, well worth a listen generally!)

I think he described. ..

De realisation as the world not feeling real.

De personalisation as you not feeling real.

Both the consequence of a block/damage to the link between the visual cortex and the limbic system.

I'll double check this later - it was midnight!

Ax