hello, i am 21 years old, i’ve had social anxiety since i was around 12, which progressed into pretty bad anxiety at around 16, i started with paxil 10mg, i was scared to go any higher, eventually my depression and anxiety got really bad and instead of upping my anxiety meducines MG’S I smoked weed, it was fine the first day but the next morning everything felt very strange, not real or realistic looking, i felt like i wasn’t in my body, it took a little while but i started feeling better, on my 18th birthday i was peer pressured into trying it again. this time i had a full blown panic attack that made me feel like i was dying, nothing has been the same since, now being the age of 21 i deal with what i think is DP everyday, it especially gets worse when i’m tired, it starts with feeling like my body is numb, confusion and like nothing is real, my chest feels weird, i’ve been exhausted everyday which has been causing it to be worse, the best way i can describe it is the feeling of standing at the edge of a cliff, the feeling you get in your legs and your stomach, but recently i’ve been overly worried about my health, thinking i’m going to die, i start having these dp attacks and it feels like i’m leaving my body and dying, has ANYONE experienced this? i’ve had multiple blood tests,ekg’s heart monitors and everything always comes back good, at this point i don’t know what to do, it’s an endless loop of fear that only gets worse the more i get scared of it.
about two years ago my anxiety increased so i switched medicines to lexapro at 10mg, i was on that for a while and it seems to have started being innefective on me, so i tried going up to 15mg, which actually caused the DP to get worse, so i went down to 12.5mg and i have been on that, earlier today i called my pyschiatrist and had it changed to zolof which 25mg which i will be taking tonight.