Re: Stopped me driving!
I relate to everything you're feeling. It's not something else - or we both have some other mysterious disease! It's anxiety because there are days where I am completely fine like I'd never experienced this before and days where it comes back with a vengeance and I can't leave my house. Driving felt so weird; I would be stopped at traffic lights and start zoning out and staring at the lights thinking "lights are so weird! Is that real? And then I would start looking around and thinking everything looks cardboard! Super scary feeling! I'm a Christian so in those moments all I could do was pray to get where I needed to go, safely, because I felt really unsafe. I got through it and we always will because anxiety can't make anything happen to us. It's just thoughts. You're perfectly safe.
I also had to say to myself "I'm a human being on planet earth" lol that sounds weird but it strangely helped me remember who I am and where I am!
It's just the product of an exhausted anxious mind overloaded with adrenaline. "Feeling of unreality" also happens to people who have chronic fatigue because exhaustion will make you feel detached and so does strong emotion. As scary and horrible as it is, it's actually our minds trying to be a friend to us, by helping us disconnect from
our surroundings. It's a tired anxious overloaded mind not anything else. And it sucks :( I can't go into stores by myself anymore because I'm too overwhelmed. My mind is too over stimulated and that's all that's gone wrong with us. I hope someone who overcame this can comment.
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Do it afraid. All fear is but the notion that God's love ends. "When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy." Psalm 94:19