I often look in the mirror and think I don’t look like myself at all. It will usually go away after a couple hours or sooner and I will look at myself and see me. I have had body hallucinations/ delusions in the past where I thought my skull was cracked where my veins were in my forehead. I’ve also when through periods of time where I have had to cover all my mirrors because they were so upsetting to me. Could me not being able to recognize myself be a hallucination? Anyone ever experience this?
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I can hardly look in mirrors anymore. If I do it’s brief and not at the person looking out of the mirror. I fell through before and ended up here. I’m finally getting things balanced out and running smoother so I don’t want it to happen again.
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That’s depersonalisation. Even normies get it sometimes but it is fairly common among people in the sz spectrum disorder.
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That’s what I kind of thought it might be but I don’t know that much about that. I’ve never known anyone else to understand what I was talking about when I have brought it up. Thanks for letting me know it is common in sz.
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I’ve had this problem most of my life. I don’t trust what I see and therefore have no idea what others see when they look at me
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I often look In the mirror and I often see a blurred image almost like a mask being pulled away from my face. Like I am looking at two people but never know which one is trying to hide.
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Yeah, sometimes I look and see a stranger looking back.
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I recognize myself. Old and wrinkled with a frown etched into my face.
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I used to avoid mirrors because I felt I was somehow diseased, “unclean”, a pariah
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