can anyone relate to this head feeling

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Hi,

new post for me so here go's.

sometime i think i'm going crazy with this head feeling. can anyone relate to this feeling.

when i have had this thought i have had a really bad head, bare with me as this is really hard to explain.
at first i used to say i was mentaly confused but i realise that this wasn't the case as i was totaly in control and knew what was happening and where i was etc but it was just the only way i could explian it at the time.

now when i get this its usually at the peak of an attack acompanied with several other feelings from panic attacks.

the FEELING in my head was so bad that i wanted to just get a gun and blow my head of to get rid of the feeling, strange i know but that is what went through my mind that or call an ambulance and get them to put me out so that when i wake up its gone, not that they would of.
i felt like i needed to section myself as i thought i was "going going gone crazy".

maybe if someone has had the same thing they might be able to explian it a bit better than i can as i'm not good at explaining things very well.
i'm not talking about derealization as as far as i'm aware that is where you kind of feel like you are looking at yourself do things etc as if you are looking in on your self etc. its not that.

i have suffered probably 95% of the symptoms of panic attacks but this is the worst for me. has anyone else had this feeling.

thank you for any replies on this.
 
still-in-my-shell

still-in-my-shell

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Hi!

Is the feeling kind of like vertigo? I have also had tunnel vision during some really bad attacks. Once I walked into a street lamp! It's kind of funny now (not even a little funny at the time). I thought that everyone would be looking at me but when I got to the car and looked out the window, no one even noticed that I had walked into the lamp.

I rarely have panic attacks anymore because I've stopped caring if I have one. When I do have one I just go with it, know I will feel sick and mentally ill but also that they don't usually last longer than half an hour.
 
Tom_Measor

Tom_Measor

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still-in-my-shell said:
I rarely have panic attacks anymore because I've stopped caring if I have one. When I do have one I just go with it, know I will feel sick and mentally ill but also that they don't usually last longer than half an hour.
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Thats good thinking, as panic attacks are mostly about anticipating them, which can then set them off. Its a fear of fear thing.
 
renegade

renegade

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_O_ had a weird feeling in my mind for a while too, and it's just like what you said: take a gun and blow my head off. Thank god it ended cause i would certanly took that shotgun in the end, it was unbearable.

i dunno how to describe it either, can u describe love, hate, fear..... ? but it certainly has to carry a name, but I think it's so rare that it hasn't a name attached. And in my case it happened after or before the panick attacks, and after a long period of rumination.

And all the psysical pains and pannick attacks were kids play compared 2 this, my worst flu is nothing compared 2 this, i don't know if u understand.

It was like a continuous nightmare, although they last a few seconds. So i experienced that feeling during day. It started and ended suddently, and lasted like half an hour or more, I also felt my head was somehow burning, it wasn't a headache at all, just a terrible state of mind. My first ideea was that i was possesed by the devil, didn't knew how to describe it, i couldn't find the words and still can't.

Hope you can relate and find the name of this son of a bitch, if there is one, i tend to call it insanity, or maybe as i read in another post, paranoid schizophrenia.
 
kody

kody

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I think I have an idea what it is
I call it a mind-ache.
Its not physical pain, but it really hurts

:?
kody.
 
colleague

colleague

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islander

I think I can relate to your condition _O_ as it sounds like what I'm dealing with right now. I had a bout of panic attacks 11 years ago when I was in high school then one they went away I was fine until about two months ago when I was attending college. Everyone I have spoken to said it's probably a result of stress and not taking care of myself that brought these attacks on. I had three full blown attacks in one month's time then I started on Effexor XR which has gotten rid of the derealization and depersonalization feelings that I was experiencing every waking hour (this was hell and a half to deal with). After two weeks of the medication I was feeling much better but other GAD symptoms started to appear.

The last week or so I've been feeling this weird "head" feeling too like I am not myself. I am aware of everything that's going on around me, understand what people say, how to respond, and where I am going but it doesn't actually feel like I am physically performing these actions when I am actually doing them. It's so difficult to explain. I feel like I have a disconnect between my brain and my conscience, if that makes any sense.

I have a referral to a psychiatric nurse to start some cognitive therapy as the medication doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be (although it's only been four weeks this week since I started taking the medication). For the most part the general anxiety symptoms are gone but I start to worry myself about going crazy since I always have this thought going through my head about who am I and what makes me me and others them???

Can anyone relate?
 
alice_down_the_rabbithole

alice_down_the_rabbithole

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Re: islander

colleague said:
I think I can relate to your condition _O_ as it sounds like what I'm dealing with right now. I had a bout of panic attacks 11 years ago when I was in high school then one they went away I was fine until about two months ago when I was attending college. Everyone I have spoken to said it's probably a result of stress and not taking care of myself that brought these attacks on. I had three full blown attacks in one month's time then I started on Effexor XR which has gotten rid of the derealization and depersonalization feelings that I was experiencing every waking hour (this was hell and a half to deal with). After two weeks of the medication I was feeling much better but other GAD symptoms started to appear.

The last week or so I've been feeling this weird "head" feeling too like I am not myself. I am aware of everything that's going on around me, understand what people say, how to respond, and where I am going but it doesn't actually feel like I am physically performing these actions when I am actually doing them. It's so difficult to explain. I feel like I have a disconnect between my brain and my conscience, if that makes any sense.

I have a referral to a psychiatric nurse to start some cognitive therapy as the medication doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be (although it's only been four weeks this week since I started taking the medication). For the most part the general anxiety symptoms are gone but I start to worry myself about going crazy since I always have this thought going through my head about who am I and what makes me me and others them???

Can anyone relate?
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Just yesterday I had that feeling, and even now its hard to describe, it felt like i was there, but i wasn't. i felt like i was in my body, but not at all in my mind. it was a terrible feeling, one that i usually get before a panic attack but it goes away right after. Well, yesterday I had it all day. Today I feel absolutely fine, but yesterday was so scary. I thought I was just going to go insane and never come back to myself.
it may have been something to do with i was at my boyfriend's band practice and i just sat there thinking while they played like ten songs, and when i'm not busy doing something mentally i get so focused on a panic attack and fear having one that i pretty much summon one right up. it kind of sucked, especially because i had to go home because i was so scared.
but i'm fine today. ;] i just have to work through it.
hope everyone else can too. <3
 
J

jencrippen

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I get really weird like that when my blood sugar drops. When my blood sugar is low I get extremely anxious, and when it was REALLY bad I would get panic attacks.

I've been able to stop it with all sorts of "tactics" - I blog about them (Search Natural Anxiety Therapy on the web, I'm #1).

My arms and legs would tingle, heart would race, and the world would seem like I was under water. Sucks!

Jen
 
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