I cant shake this feeling and it’s horrible I don’t know if its anxiety or depression it’s so hard to explain but it definitely makes my anxiety worse.
How can I explain it.
It’s not like everything doesn’t seem real but everything seems different like my emotions are all wrong. I find it so hard to explain but it makes me feel like everything is just wierd!
My emotions seem unusual And like my emotions are too strong or I’m going crazy and everything is just unusual x it honestly makes me feel like I’m going mad because I cant explain it I cant research it to find out what it is x
It scares the life out of me tbh
its not dissociation or derealization as I looked into that and it doesn’t feel like that at all
i had that for a long time you arent going mad
Hi again Potatoghost
I don’t think it matters what it is - whatever you’re feeling is purely a side effect of anxiety. To try and work out what it is or analyze it is pointless. Its caused by anxiety.
If you had a cold you wouldn’t worry about having a runny nose, you’d just accept its a side effect of the cold. Same for this feeling. If you found out what it is there’s nothing you can do anyway as it’ll disappear as anxiety does.
I think it might be sensitized nerves. When you have anxiety your body becomes super sensitive because your nerve endings are raw and all too ready to fire off at any little provocation - its prepared your body for fight or flight. Sound can seem louder, sights odd, sometimes the world looks grey, or even the sunshine can seem too bright. You might cry too easy too, and of course feel depressed at everything.
The body becomes sensitized when we have anxiety so its on constant alert which heightens all our senses - as we recover this process reverses so the body returns to its normal desensitized state.
Its quite normal with anxiety and most definitely just a side effect.
Maybe think of it as super powers lol …… (but it doesn’t include flying) xxxxx
K x
katecoggs thank you so much it’s such a relief to know it’s just a side effect of anxiety that really does put my mind at rest! thank you. it’s just a really scary feeling that makes my anxiety worse so thank you for your reassurance x
I’m definitely crying a lot more than usual from feeling so rubbish all the time
everything else you described is pretty spot on too!
I just want to get better now as it’s becoming a 24/7 struggle x
you are amazing 
thank you toria x it’s a relief to know I’m not going mad! thank goodness!
how is the feeling for you now?
Hi potatoghost,
Forget schizophrenia, listen to Katecogs 
Really!!! 
. I can assure you 500 million % its most definitely not schizophrenia. It is absoultely anxiety all the way. This is written in a book by a well known Doctor. Schizophrenia is an entirely different thing altogether and you wouldn’t be talking on this forum if you were.
Lots of side effects can be scary, and even more so if you don’t know what it is.
Yes crying is so common with anxiety - I cried bucketfuls when I wasn’t well - at work, at home, at the Doctors, walking along a busy road once and even on the cat at times. Its good to cry as it releases built up adrenaline.
It’ll take a while for the meds to soothe those sensitised nerves - but they’ll return to normal.
K x
it comes and goes my friend, hold tight x
its really not and i dont have anxiety its your brain trying to settle on the dose, thats the reason my doctors are leaving me to taper however slowly i want too as they know i never had anxiety before reducing x
It’s side effects. I had some really wierd emotions that didnt fit the situation, as well as strange thoughts, but even though the emotions feel unbearable, the fact that you know they’re strange or abnormal means you are being rational and objective and not mad, crazy or schizophrenic. Well done, be a warrior, just keep going and it’ll all settle down in a few weeks. x
thank you so much x omg the relief is is amazing x I was proper panicking! I’m just so happy that I’m not crazy…well schizophrenic atleast x we are all a little bit crazy 
thank you Katecoggs you really are a lifesaver!
I owe you Toria and Lois one massive box of chocolates and some flowers when all this is finally over for sure!
thank you so much it’s great that everyone is helping other sufferers too x hopefully all those feelings have passed for you now and you are starting or are feeling better?
thank you toria
how are the withdrawals coming along? x better I hope x
listen to kate potato.i had that same nasty anxiety.not schizo.
thank god for all those sensible replies!! thanks everyone! read your post in the middle of the night P cos i coukdnt sleep and then i freaked out too as i also have that when my anxiety is bad! why would anyone say that to someone who is anxious?!!! i have been fretting all night about as I imagine you have been P - I was trying to be rational but just kept feeling panicky and thinking what if im developing it? can you go from anxiety to that? etc etc. i hope you feel a bit better now P x
blooming slowly gs, boiler broken too so that doesnt help x
you still struggling bless you x yeah I do thank goodness. I’ve proper panicked x is that how you feel too when your anxiety is really high x it’s the strangest feeling x hope you’re seeing some improvements x
definitely feeling relieved x
