Distant form Reality

[Eyes2SeeEars2Hear]

Hi im new here, and ive read through alot of the posts already but I wanted to know is feeling mentally strange, and away from your body something alot of people experience with anxiety or just a few?

I had a bad experience a couple weeks ago which envolved 911, there were no health problems or anything, and they went away but it left me feeling worried, panicky, and fearfull sometimes, and mainly a sence of de-realization.

My world seems a haze, and strange. I hate it so much. I look at something and zone out, and question how wierd it is. Things that were always normal to me, I question over and over, and i feel as if im intoxicated with something and hav'nt come down from the effects and I HATE IT so much...it's like making me change to another person.

I feel like a small voice shouting commands to this foreign body to do stuff for me as if him in a robot suit or something. I just don't feel myself and it sucks so bad.

Is the only way to stop this by not thinking about it? Or is there other effective ways to cure it?

 

[My_shrink]

My world

The world, reality, is the same for everyone.You can observe it
through your senses, and understand it with your mind.

Is the only way to stop this by not thinking about it?

Stop irrational thoughts, they wont do you any good in the long term.
I have often become detatched from reality, and gone into my own mind,
i call it "sinking behind my eyes". But i know that i really choose to do
it, so i can choose to stop it and do other things.

Just tell yourself calmly to stop thinking these thoughts, focus on reality
and the things you want to to in your life. [/i]

 

[thequietone]

Yes, I do feel this way and I've always been like that. I remember asking weird questions like, "Is this real right now?" Because life felt like a hazy dream. Zoning out is a form of dissociation. It is a way our brains sometimes deal with problems.

I always find it helpful to do work of some kind, get interested in something and put my whole self into the action.
Your mind is yours. You can focus it and ground yourself in the physical world.
When the stress is too much, some of us, especially daydreamers isolate ourselves from reality----without even meaning to.

When acute anxiety enters your life it's hard to feel normal again.
It will feel like you've become someone else, and in a way, it's sort of true. We change all the time. Only through perserverance can you make that change for the better. If you keep enduring, eventually, life will find it's center again.
Hope that helps.

 

[deadboy]

you guys are dead on , its all in your mind

 

[colleague]

I haven't been back on this site in months, mostly because my anxiety feelings were almost completely gone!!!

I will agree with deadboy's comment about everyone being right and that this dissaociated feeling being all in your mind - it's true. And, it takes the individual to realize that and overcome the thoughts.

When I was going through my second bout of GAD about 5 months ago I thought I would be in that dreamy, hazy, dissaciated "world" forever which would lead me into more anxiety. I eventually started documenting my life, every day, in a journal on my computer (I can type faster than I can write). By doing this, I could see the forward progress that I was eventually making... but this took a lot of work from myself - goign to the gym, going on medication (Effexor) which I did not want to have to resort to, getting involved in an activity, and taking care of myself. The stress in my life back then was so much that I was reaching burn out and was not healthy.

The mind is a powerful thing and you can overcome this no matter how bad you feel. You will NOT feel like this forever... trust me. I have been there once before, about 10 years ago, but then I had it embedded in my mind this second time around that I was going to feel terrible forever. Stop the negative thoughts that constantly run through your head... stop viewing sites and reading about anxiety for a couple months until you are in a better state of mind... and just relax... breathe, stretch... relax!!