derealization/depersonalization anyone?

abbie · February 17, 2006, 1:03am

i'm just wondering if anyone else on here has experiences with derealization/depersonilization, and if so, what does it feel like ?? i think this is what i'm experiencing, but i want to be sure !!

abbie*

dbab · February 17, 2006, 1:47am

I get that and it feels like I'm in a dream state. Concentration is not possible when I am going through this. I feel real numb and my vision gets kind of blurry. I'm sure you will get other responses with other symptoms but I hope this helps a little.

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AnxiousSoAnxious06 · February 17, 2006, 1:47am

abbiexx said...
i'm just wondering if anyone else on here has experiences with derealization/depersonilization, and if so, what does it feel like ?? i think this is what i'm experiencing, but i want to be sure !!

I think almost everyone with anxiety suffers from Derealization/depersonilization, and I can say that because I have it pretty bad..some days its worse than others but all you can do is try not to worry and think about it as hard as it is to do so..if your wondering what it feels like to see if whats your feeling, I'm sorry but I can't really offer up an explanation because its a pretty strange unique feeling..all i can say is things seem to feel unreal, could be described as actually everything feels TOO REAL! if you describe how your feeling, I might be able to help better..

Lyn_Kyle_Emerick · February 17, 2006, 1:52am

Hi Abbie .yes I have had it yrs ago and vaguely recall feeling outside of my self,and not really wanting any awareness of what was going on I dont know if this is what you mean ..along with other things but I am not remembering to well what they were ..

abbie · February 18, 2006, 3:30am

well the other day in school i was feeling like this. i felt like if i was not awake, or like. i was there but i wasn't there. if that makes sense lol. i just felt like i was outside of myself and sorta dizzy. it went away after a while. but it was bad ! is that what it feels like ?

abbie*

leftie · February 19, 2006, 6:09am

hey this part of anxiety is the most intense and scariest but it will pass i felt like i was out of my body like lookinat myself also blurred vision wicked deja vu and everyone seemed like strangers but it passes good luck try not to dwell on it

Sammatt · February 19, 2006, 7:47am

I have it pretty much 24-7 these days due to benzo withdrawal. It gets worse under fluorescent lights, and that seesm to be the case with many people. So, if you have the option of using another type of lighting at home, you might want to think about that.

It feels like I'm either not there, not real, or that I'm the only thing that's real and nothing around me is real, or that I've stepped into some sort of false dream or cartoon world. It was very scary at first, but I made myself deliberately feel it by sitting in front of a SAD light box, as exposure therapy, and seeing that it couldn't hurt me at all.

Now when it hits I just keep doing whatever I'm doing and ignore it, and it goes away in a few minutes.

Like Leftie says, the less you dwell on it, the less it will bother you.

abbie · February 20, 2006, 10:17pm

yeah .. it's worse under flourescent lights lol but i can't get away from it because that's all there is at school .. lol :( it only happens once in a while though, so that's good. :) thanks for your help .

abbie*

Georgia5 · October 24, 2006, 10:45pm

For myself when that happens I feel very spacey and out of and I get something like tunnel vision and everything looks strange. It's pretty common for anxiety sufferers.

Georgia

puppylove83 · October 25, 2006, 4:26am

I used to feel like that when I was going through some traumatic experiences when I was young. I felt like everything was a dream. I felt dazed and dizzy and felt like I could wake up at any moment. Sometimes, I even thought to myself....omg, what is going on here? why is this happening to me? I also loose the sensation and feel so distant from everythign around me.
Now I experience this when I have panic attacks.

mingmalefactor · October 25, 2006, 10:50am

Wow, Twiggygal, you describe how I feel perfectly. I have been on about a month run of feeling that way now. :(

Was on Zoloft for ten years. Trying to go natural for 7 months now, very difficult. Diagnosis: Depersonalization/Derealization, Panic, GAD, mild-OCD, mild-Depression.

Lyn_Kyle_Emerick · October 25, 2006, 12:07pm

I too sometimes get theat feeling of spaced out and not "with it "
I dont really know if all A/P sufferers go thru this but would not surprise me at all

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twiggygal · October 25, 2006, 6:35pm

*hugs* Mingmalefactor- it's an awful feeling.

Sometimes I feel lost hehe...

sometimes I'll be driving and some scary incident will occur where someone almost hit me, and I'll think, did I really just die and am in some other world right now? LOL

That's how out of body I get sometimes.

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adripenguin · May 31, 2007, 9:23pm

hey guys. Ive been having derealization since this past summer now, and I'm really annoyed. i have it every single day at every time. Is so weird. I feel as if I'm dreaming, also, I see like lines, and I sometimes feel dizzy, is reLLY bothering me, it's just like I'm not there. Ahhh I hate it, Well please asnwer me this: do ure feelings keep going on all day long? " I have better days than others, but I'm always derealized. please help!

Zeee · June 1, 2007, 9:05pm

I had that reaction to St. John's Wort. SCARY.

liamjmccormack · June 4, 2007, 10:32pm

hi everyone..ive been suffering these symtoms for 5months now...altho it origonally started when i was a 12yr old kid..it started with an overwhelming (attack) of sorts...it just hit me..out of the blue..i felt asthough i was dreaming ..or daydreaming..and that nothing around me was really happening...asthough i was imagining it..and my short-term memory was all over the place,the initial attack was very strong..and altho these effects faded slightly once id been to sleep..i found that when i woke..the feeling hadnt fully gone..asthough i was still somewhat in a dream ,anyway eventually(after about 2 years) the strong attacks stopped and this feeling went away.but 5months ago( im now 21 yrs old) i had another really strong attack and its all flared up again..the same odd feeling of ''constantly beeing in a dream state'' and it hasnt faded at all...infact its feeling much worse lately. its a hard feeling to describe..but the best description i can think of is that ''its like that feeling when youve drank too much booze..and your short-term memory is very foggy/patchy..you could have a conversation with someone for an hour..but when you walk away..you only have a vague recolection of the things you did and said,or you can remember what you did and said...but it feels like it was days/weeks even months ago..'' also its the same dream-state feeling '' like your dreaming and could wake up at any moment,i feel although im in a constant dreamstate that i cant wake up from..even going outside on my own scares me..as i feel that id panic and if i went somewhere..id suffer a memory-lapse and not remember how i got there,the memory lapses(when i foget where i am/what i did 5minutes ago) can sometimes trigger a harsh attack(basically the symptoms i described increase 10fold and i have to sleep it off) if i have a memory lapse..and dwell on it..or panic..this often triggers a harsh attack....anyways im currently seeking a full diagnosis but my doctor is sure that its something like derealization thats been trigerd by depression,ansiety and stress. i hope this is of some use to people that are feeling similar symtoms and id also like to know if this all makes any scence to anyone?? does anyone else have these bizzare symptoms?? please let me know if any of you suffer these horrible effects..and if they are symptoms of derealization.,i hope all this muddled info is of use to someone..thankyou..