More feelings of depersonalization?

[baileys]

I also read about it being in low levels of anxiety..not sure about that but I don't have alot of stress at the moment but the anxiety DP is quite bad so maybe it is?

I can see what you mean by that and ive also read it before.
I know the feeling of Dp when having high anxiety or a panic attack but the Dp i get now is usually when im just worried but not overly anxious.
Its constantly with me, to a certain degree anyway unless im totally engrossed in something.

Its a horrible place to be but the other hand i find it quite safe and calming.
My heart wont be racing or any other anxiety symptoms, im just totally detached from the world.
It can make me feel anxious, it depends what situation im in but the Dp comes before the heightened anxiety.
It makes me feel like an alien, and the world looks so strange. Im not very good at explaining what it feels like. Im getting help for it now.

[phil06]

Has anybody else had these symptoms with DP?

My latest is:

*I feel glued to the PC, too lazy to move, mind focused on worry.
*Feeling the world is alien or I've died.
*Feeling frozen in the moment?
*Feeling very dream like but still feel alive.
*When a panic attack comes on I shift into dream mode, like I'm floating or not alive...
*When I'm panicy I stumble with words..get nervous too.
*My mind feels 100% focused on worry, only when I think about normal stuff does it feel normal. Feels like my brain is no longer working, or working properly?
*Waking up in the night feeling unreality..
*Not fully taking in objects and surroundings, lack of concentration, only able to focus on one thing.
*A pain/tension on forehead.
*Feeling very slow.
*24/7 worry.

Anybody had these? If so how long does it last? and is it just anxiety symptoms?

[baileys]

phil you need to start focusing on your surroundings and what's going on in the real world rather than how you feel all the time.
Its all anxiety and you are fuelling it by paying it too much attention.

[phil06]

phil you need to start focusing on your surroundings and what's going on in the real world rather than how you feel all the time.
Its all anxiety and you are fuelling it by paying it too much attention.

I know.

Just to add how bad it's got..I can't look at my phone and pc at the same time as I end up staring into space..my head is full of worry and I'm in a cloud, obsessed with my brain..terrified I'm ill..

Is that anxiety too? My worry is saying maybe I'm dying..maybe this is a slow sign im losing it, maybe a health issue?

But when I don't think about it, usually brief at the moment it does ease..my head is also tense with this slowness thing too..

I feel absorbed by this feeling..I feel I need to worry..duno why but I keep on worrying..maybe it's become habit?

I also don't feel I'm taking anything in..feel very distant..? is that anxiety too?

[baileys]

Its all anxiety mate, mines a habit too and its very hard to break.
All these things are happening to you because you are letting your mind think them....that doesn't make much sense but you know what i mean.
You can look at 2 things at once, its you thinking that you cant.
I also feel i need to worry but i try and relax, even if its just for an hour a day, it feels good when i can do it.

[rozie]

Hello Phil06
I empathise with you totally.
Having had 'familiar' anxiety symptoms for years, I was suddenly taken by surprise by a dreadful depersonalization experience a while back. I was in an unfamiliar city and had to catch a train. Needless to say it all went horribly wrong and was terrifying! Half of me was thinking 'this feels a bit like a panic attack' and the other half thought I was experiencing some sort of sudden onset Alzheimers episode. It went on and on and I thought I'd never get back to 'normal'. (Sadly, I didn't know about this wonderful site then either).
The reason I'm going on at such length is to hopefully reassure you that it did eventually pass. I did happen again on another occasion and I recognised it the second time which really helped.
I found that writing things down really helped. This may have been because it took my focus off my feelings.At first I was afraid to look up from the page even as it seemed the sensation would be somehow 'there' waiting for me. Now, with the passage of time, I sometimes notice my anxiety is tipping slightly towards the foggy, removed from it all feeling and I have learned to control it.
It is definitely one of the worst anxiety symptoms in my opinion but like all of them, it does lose its power once we learn to work through it. This is easier said than done but it IS possible.
Please feel free to contact me privately if you'd like to compare more detailed notes. Meanwhile I send you my very best and please believe me when I tell you it does pass and you are in control. Just because you don't feel that way right now doesn't mean it isn't so.

rozie

[shaggyowen]

yeh im feeling like that right now realy spaced out and trippy lol i get sceard but then after some rational thinking just chill out and accept its just anxiety makeing me feel like this =]

[phil06]

Has anybody had a crunching headache pain with DP and anxiety? and I can feel it kind of in my mouth..and my arms feel numb and not part of me?

Also anybody had the staring into space and feeling focused only on DP? I feel I can only focus on one thing and feel in a dream when I walk.

And back to the head pain when I move my jaw it's sore and can feel my tension at the side of my head is that normal?

It's hard to understand this symptom..I feel at times my brains not working too. Lights and so on feel dull too all day.

[phil06]

Is this a symptom of depersonalization?

When I'm out I feel like a fixed focus camera when I turned around like to cross the road I almost run across now as I feel tense in my head like I won't see a full all round view or I'm not sharp?

It's worse outside than indoors as outside I'm more anxious...but sometimes in the house I do stare into space and feel I'm not taking in a full picture..sometimes I feel like a figure or statue and like if you shake it it moves..I don't feel like mobile at times feels frozen..it's got worse the more I worry about it and I have health anxiety...it's not a symptom I can like shake out of it just lingers?

Is that anxiety and DP and how can I get rid of this symptom?

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Oh-I am glad to find this thread!
I have been suffering from D/P since about June this year following a very stressful time.What I want to know is-does anyone else that suffers with this get their brain in a knot that they just can't undo? This has happened to me-and while I accept that it is just D/P the thoughts that I have had have been so terrifying and my brain is in such a muddle that on one level nothing makes sense any more.
I am intelligent and rational and can function quite normally in the real world but running along side all that is an area of my brain that won't let me be I am so sick of it!
Firstly I remember my childhood but it doesn't seem to belong to me.I have forgotten who I am supposed to be. I see myself as a nothing-I think about all the millions of other brains in the world-all the separate identities-all thinking they are the centre of the universe. I used to feel like I was the centre of mine once but I am miles away now-out there searching for my sense of self. I have panic attacks at the thought of crowds or big cities but I am not agoraphobic.I guess I have realised how small I am-like an ant. I ponder on the strangeness of each person being in their own bubble-seemingly at ease with themselves.I know these thoughts are rubbish. I sit beside my husband watching TV and I get freaked out at a football crowd. It doesn't bother him.He is an individual just like me but he knows who he is.I am sure I sound completely loopy but I think I am probably too SANE actually. What I am pondering on is akin to trying to understand infinity-the more we try to work it out the more it blows our mind! So I have got my brain in this complicated nonsense Knot-and I can't get back to being me. I am waiting to see a psychologist-but I just wonder if anyone else has found that D/P has caused their thoughts to be about the meaning of life the universe and their place in it? It is all terrifying to me. What a loony