Hi all, I'd like to share a really strange change of symptoms in my anxiety that happened a month ago. A month ago, I used to have all the typical anxiety symptoms such as racing heart, cold feet and hands, chest pains, headaches etc but one day, I woke up with something like a brain fog, a weird feeling in head and since then my hopefully anxiety symptoms have changed drastically. I no longer have any physical symptoms, no cold feet, no racing heart but I feel constantly as if some part of me died, as if I lost my identity, as if I was trapped in my mind/body, as if I was high, as if thinking is strange. Besides, I've got weird thoughts ? feelings? that I don't understand the world, how is it possible that people think / walk etc which causes a strange feeling of dread/apprehension and it persists all the time. I am really worried that this feeling will never go away, has anyone there experienced something similar? Thanks in advance for replies.
Yes, yes and yes!!! Thank you for your post, I thought that I’m the only one! I thought that I’m loosing my mind!
I feel exactly the same! Like not myself, like world around me is strange! It triggers me a lot of odd, stupid questions like why there are dogs and so on,… I also have random flashbacks, deja vu and I’m scared of my own thoughts! I’m scared of thinking…
I have severe anxiety and panic attacks, so it is probably just our exhaustion of constant stress…It passed when I got calm, but after strong anxiety attack it came back…but it can pass, no worry!
hello, just responded to another post on heret, i think it may apply to yourself. prolonged anxiety, if left untreated, either gets worse in intensity and leads to a breakdown, or it turns into depression. ive had both, and found the anxiety stops quite suddenly, and depression takes its place. i think of anxiety in terms of physical symptoms, and depression obviously mental, although both are mental. i think depression is the bodys self defense against prolonged anxiety, otherwise it would go off the scale, leading to a breakdown. what you have gone through, and how you are now thinking, is typical of how and when a person becomes depressed. you need to speak to a doctor, so they can recommend counselling or medication.
you could leave it, and you come out of the depression naturally, although its likely to take a long time, or most likely it will get worse. generally, when the physical symptoms turn to mental ones, they tend to get worse. its happend to me 4 or 5 times, and each time it got worse, and i needed anti depressants.
you could leave it, and you come out of the depression naturally, although its likely to take a long time, or most likely it will get worse. generally, when the physical symptoms turn to mental ones, they tend to get worse. its happend to me 4 or 5 times, and each time it got worse, and i needed anti depressants.
This sounds like depersonalization or derealization. It can go away. Do you take meds or anything?
Yes, I do for 2 weeks now and I haven’t seen any improvement but to me it isn’t depersonalization, I do not have changed vision, surroundings or anything, but I feel like everything is gonna end in a minute, those strange feelings that I am not able to think, that I will not make it through the day, as if I was afraid of thinking, it doesn’t change at all, 24h thing…