Hey y’all. What are your intrusive and confusing thoughts like? I️ feel like sometimes I’m so stuck in the past or scared of the future that I can’t be in the present. Like right now I’m laying in bed after driving 1.5 hrs back from my parents’ place and I’m just replaying everything in my head trying to make sure I can remember it all. It makes me feel crazy and makes it hard to live enjoyably.
Hi! Mine were really dark for a while kind of like being in a horror movie terrifying causing me to be so scared and made me think I was a terrible person... ever since I went on medicine those have quieted and now it’s just weird health anxiety and thinking I’m not real or feel disconnected and thinking if I’m even alive. I hope it gets better soon. You aren’t crazy, everyone keeps saying crazy people don’t know that they are going crazy. So hopefully that brings you reassurance. I feel the same way though it’s really uncomfortable.
Thanks Jess. You know how it is. It’s just so hard to feel normal. I can remember what normal feels like but I just can’t get there yet. And I’m going to school and work and no one knows I’m feeling like s**t.
What are your thoughts like?
I can remember too and it’s so hard to get back there even though you know you’ve felt normal and it’s hard to accept that it’s just anxiety. I mean at least your still going! That’s the positive. I can’t work because of this right now
They vary. Sometimes they’re really dark. Sometimes they’re just confusing. Like hard to explain confusing. Like I’m laying in bed right now and looking around the room and I can feel the pillow under my head but I can’t see it and that weirds me out. I just can’t make my mind slow down. And I have depersonalization. And I see a counselor next week but I’m afraid she won’t be able to help me. What if I’m crazy and they put me in a hospital? Or what if all this anxiety makes me crazy? I keep thinking that.
I’m exactly there with you 100% there was days I was like I should just go since I’m too crazy..... but once I started my medication my thoughts started coming back together now all the way but better than they were. Are you on anything? I promise you though you aren’t crazy it’s just the anxiety! I know it’s hard I’m still having moments where I don’t believe it, but it is. Just take a warm bath if you can. I understand and if you need to talk I’m here to listen. You are not alone
I’ve been on fluoxetine since I was 15 (I’m 23 now). It helps most of the time but every great once in awhile I have episodes, like now.
Well do you talk to someone? I’m sorry though! You will get through it and you aren’t crazy!
Betsy, Anxiety has a way of ddoing that to us. Repeating thoughts over and over is called Rumination and is very common with Anxiety.
Next time you are laying in bed, Listen to an audio called Detachment from Overthinking. It’s on you tube. Usee earbuds if you have them. It has helped me a lot and so have many others for anxiety on you tube. 😁🌸
Hi Betsy, My mind just races all the time, with any kind of thought. It does not shut down till I go to sleep. I fear everything....money, death, sickness, work, driving. You name it. I have been trying t get better for almost 3 years. My psychiatrist put me on Cymbalta a couple of months ago. It has helped better than the other meds I have tried, but the constant ruminating thoughts are still there. It makes me really tired. I just need some rest from it. Even just one day from it would be awesome.