ems43
09-09-10, 21:14
hI, i REALLY need some help please, feel like i am losing my mind.
Basically i suffered with dp/ dr about ten years ago and found it very difficult but eventually overcame it. About three months ago I went and got very drunk, woke up with the worst headache ever and now what i realise was my dp/ dr starting again. I felt numb all over, as if my mind was not connecting with my body and i felt very odd.
anyway i became convinced it was something physical as I did keep having headaches. I kept feelign detatched from others, like i could not focus on them properly or work out what was going on around me. I also felt like i could not tell what position my body was in, if that makes senses.
The main symptoms I am getting now are
- feeling the world/ everything looks really unreal, along with this intense pressure feeling in my forehead like everything feels pressured and my head could explode
- feelign that one side of my body feels different to the other
- feelign that things are futhter away/ closer than i;m sure they are
- feeling that people's heads etc change shape
- fearing/ feelign that i don't recongise others around me
- feelign disorientateds, like i don;'t know where i am
- feelign that i don't know who i am anymore
- feeling that i shrink in size
- feelign that i slip out of my body
- feelign that i am standing at the side of myself
The problem is, when i had dp/ dr before, i felt hugely relieved when i read info on it. This time, when i read info on it, it doesn't reassure me, it feels like i have actually lost my mind. I also start fearing, what if i am going psyhoctic? what if i start ot believe that reality isn't real? I als get this fleeting thought " nothing is real anyway" and that terrifies me. I literally feel like i am losign my mind and can;t cope. I think if i could beleive it was dp/ dr then i would be one step on the way to recovery.. but my blasted mind just keeps saying no i have gone insane. I have jsut started escitalopram and am really hopign they kick in soon as i am signed off work and hardly able to function I am just so terrified constantly. I really am finding it hard to just get through the day, it feels like ground hog day.
Also, does anyone know how you differentiate between temporal lobe epilespy and dp/ dr? i keep worryig i have this too.
I am so low today and i just cannot stop crying and don;t see this ever ending.
Many many thansk for any help offered x
Basically i suffered with dp/ dr about ten years ago and found it very difficult but eventually overcame it. About three months ago I went and got very drunk, woke up with the worst headache ever and now what i realise was my dp/ dr starting again. I felt numb all over, as if my mind was not connecting with my body and i felt very odd.
anyway i became convinced it was something physical as I did keep having headaches. I kept feelign detatched from others, like i could not focus on them properly or work out what was going on around me. I also felt like i could not tell what position my body was in, if that makes senses.
The main symptoms I am getting now are
- feeling the world/ everything looks really unreal, along with this intense pressure feeling in my forehead like everything feels pressured and my head could explode
- feelign that one side of my body feels different to the other
- feelign that things are futhter away/ closer than i;m sure they are
- feeling that people's heads etc change shape
- fearing/ feelign that i don't recongise others around me
- feelign disorientateds, like i don;'t know where i am
- feelign that i don't know who i am anymore
- feeling that i shrink in size
- feelign that i slip out of my body
- feelign that i am standing at the side of myself
The problem is, when i had dp/ dr before, i felt hugely relieved when i read info on it. This time, when i read info on it, it doesn't reassure me, it feels like i have actually lost my mind. I also start fearing, what if i am going psyhoctic? what if i start ot believe that reality isn't real? I als get this fleeting thought " nothing is real anyway" and that terrifies me. I literally feel like i am losign my mind and can;t cope. I think if i could beleive it was dp/ dr then i would be one step on the way to recovery.. but my blasted mind just keeps saying no i have gone insane. I have jsut started escitalopram and am really hopign they kick in soon as i am signed off work and hardly able to function I am just so terrified constantly. I really am finding it hard to just get through the day, it feels like ground hog day.
Also, does anyone know how you differentiate between temporal lobe epilespy and dp/ dr? i keep worryig i have this too.
I am so low today and i just cannot stop crying and don;t see this ever ending.
Many many thansk for any help offered x