Hi everyone i finally was getting well and the last week ive started to have that bad feeling of being disconnected, everything feels unreal and im in a dream. Of course my stupid ocd has to kick in and now im ocd' n about losing touch with reality completely my main fear! I mean what if I really start to believe im im a dream and I cross over into un reality. The weird thing is I wasn't even anxious so why have i got this depersonalization again God i need a break. Needing to vent
I know how you feel it sucks 
It's my moms birthday today she's passed away but I miss her so much so I'm kind of depressed and anxious but pushing though with a smile on my face 
Hi antsy sorry about your mum it would be a hard day for you today I shouldn't complain. Hows your depersonalization going have you still got it
Yeah I still feel weird ugh but I'm always thinking what if I have some rare disease blah blah lol so I fuel the stress anxiety cycle and I get other symptoms ugh but I'm learning just to live with it ya know ? Doesn't it feel different everytime or is it just me lol
Omg im so glad you wrote that it feels different everytime for you too i was stressing bad since last night cause everytime i get it, it feels totally different then I start obsessing that its not depersonalization and maybe a server mental breakdown or brain disease this is the worst feeling id trade this for any other symptom of anxiety right now. Im so over it
Omg I know how you feel lol I'm like this isn't anxiety. I feel like I'm not here or I'm gonna lose it any second ugh it's he ll I'm so glad you understand makes me feel less crazy kind of lol like right now I have a head ache watching my bf play Xbox feeling spaced out it's scary
It definitely helps when someone understands what were going though, it makes me feel less crazy aswell, I get that feeling that im about to lose it and fade out its so crazy sometimes i get angry cause of it it can feel like some kind of punishment or torture. Im watching TV with my boyfriend and i dont even bother trying to explain how werid im feeling cause its just to hard to explian
Omg yes ! Lol I sound crazy while trying to explain it like yeah I feel like I'm not here or I'm gonna go crazy any minute I'm glad I met u on here it really helps and I can laugh about it now but when it's bad I just sit there waiting for me to lose it and thank God it never happens but yes it's the same but feels different it's hard to explain its not like a headache where we go oh okay it's just a headache no it's something that scares us and feels so horrible it feels like my vision is off
Im glad I found you on here to :-) i did try explain it to my parents but they didn't know what to say so I left it. My vision goes strange to it feels foggy or hazy my hearing becomes werid aswell its hard to explian kind of like super hearing. Last night when I was watching TV i started getting really hazy vision then I felt so detached and dreamlike i started to panic i closed my eyes for a while and then I had to get out of my house i felt so trapped. When the feeling goes i think ok cool its gone i dont think ill have that again so when it comes back i become so annoyed and scared as you know
Yeah exactly i feel like it'll never leave to be honest and it's hard to tell when it leaves
And I hate feeling the doom feeling and feeling like my brain is gonna shut off ugh it's horrible 
Hi all
I've had these feelings on many occasion (not for years now though) It's uncomfortable but it's perfectly normal side effect of all anti 'd meds. Have any of you recently changed med in anyway. That is usually the culprit, but usually dissapear after a few weeks. Unfortunately it can take longer in some than others (that is exactly what the DR is going to say) most likely a change of meds is needed. It makes sense if your taking Zopiclone/ as it's an hypnotic. Other benzo's can have the same effect. I found CBT therpy to be the most effective (in conjunction with medication) in turning that "not real" feeling off. hope this helps a few of you, feel free to contact if anymore questions.
Yes that doom feeling is bad i also get this feeling of being completely alone even though im around people and a feeling of losing myself completely. Ive noticed i get the depersonalization even when im a tiny bit anxious i never use to get it so this is completely new for me i guess that's why its so hard to accept
Hi Craig thanks for the reply im not currently on any medication but have just started therapy finally after many years of avoiding it. The depersonalization is new for me i never have experienced something like this despite having anxiety issues for 17 years andvi thought my other anxiety symptoms were bad this is absolutely insane.
are you on any medication Allison ???
Hi no im not on meds but in therapy
It is definately part of your anxiety, unfortnately when you start an anti depressant depersonalization is a main side effect for the first few weeks. It's great that your seeing a counsellor ( I'm assuming CBT/NLP) when I was dealing with this my Dr put me on a very low dose of Venlafaxine (effexor) 2 weeks later i was fine we doubled the dose to 37.5mg and I took that for about 6 years. I'm now not on anything. So I would ask about that or SSRI or SNRI class of anti d's. Effexor is in the SNRI class. I'm not a DR but i learned the hard way these things can and are overcome with persistance, and the CBT really helped to "retrain" my brain so to speak. hope this helps, let me know how you get on.
Craig
Thanks Craig you give me hope ill get over this its great to hear from someone that's gotten over this i appreciate your input.
Hi antsy how you feeling. I saw my psychiatrist Today and told him ive got the depersonalization back again and he said that once you've experienced depersonalization it can come back again very easily because it becomes a habit and it go again he said the fading away feeling and werid vision are all depersonalization and its not a sign of going crazy or insane. And the only way to get rid of it completely is to manage the anxiety better easier said than done as we know lol. I thought id let you no your not going crazy.