Does anyone else feel like this?
Since this whole anxiety debacle started, even when I'm not actively worrying about something, even when the world makes relative sense, the world seems really... different. Just off. Like I can't absorb it as well. Like I don't feel comfortable in it. I get memories of walking by places or being in similar situations when I wasn't feeling like this and I felt so involved and vivid.
It's like my mind is casting a sheen over everything.
I don't think this is derealisation / depersonalisation; I had those big time over summer, and I think they've just about gone. I feel real; the world feels real, it just feels unusual.
This is worrying me for a few reasons; firstly, it feeds back into my anxiety and I become obsessed with it. I feel "not okay", which scares me; I worry this isn't anxiety, which scares me; I worry that whilst the anxiety is reducing (no more DP is good evidence of that), this won't go away, which scares me. I worry the DP/DR is still there, and is a disorder, and will never go away, which scares me.
I don't seem to have any way of controlling or exerting any influence over this perception, but it certainly upsets me a lot more when I'm anxious. The only time I remember it 'fading' completely was after I saw my doctor a couple of weeks ago, broke down to them, and they asked me all about my symptoms, told me things would be okay, and that I would feel better in a few months. With that confidence, the next few hours felt very comfortable and 'there'
I'm hoping this is all just anxiety - spending so much time worrying over this and that I'm not going to be okay that the constant fight/flight position is dulling the outside world.
So.... does anyone else feel like this at all? That their world - their surroundings - feel weird?
Thanks......