My vision is distorted sometimes. Sometimes I think things aren’t real or I’m not real. I get anxiety. It is not psychosis from what I read. But I was wondering if anyone else has this or has experienced this?
I believe caffeine and nicotine makes it worse.
I take magnesium. I heard exercise helps.
Depakote makes me tired.
I feel like I’m 98-99% cured but the remaining amount still bothers me. It’s called dissociation.
isnt schizophrenia like a disscociative disorder i know before i got diagnosed i was dissociating alot
For me it was so bad it looked like Nintendo 64 24/7.
I had more depersonalization than derealization. It’s very hard to describe. I felt that I was in an alien body and I wasn’t sure what was keeping it alive, how and why was it breathing and who was breathing it (not me!). At the same time, I had enough insight to realize, “You’re just breathing, dummy” but that only made me feel more anxious. The only thing that made it go away was medication. My neuroleptic of choice is Zyprexa. Wikipedia said the cause is basically a brain malfunction and the treatment needs to be medical. EDIT: Depersonalization and derealization are often lumped together. They’re both the result of brain malfunctions in disorders like schizophrenia. You’re right to avoid caffeine and nicotine. Both make the feeling worse.
Dissociation is a warning sign for an episode for me. I get a stress ball and have a smoke, try to calm down.
I’ve felt this before. It’s causes overwhelming anxiety for me. It doesn’t really happen too much anymore. I don’t know if it’s the meds i’m on or what. I do get hung up on the thought that i don’t exist sometimes. I try to rationalize my way out of it but it’s still stressful.
Same here. The worse my state is, the more I dissociate
Since being on meds it happens less, but yes I get derealization. Everything looks surreal and fake, it feels like I am moving much faster or much slower than my environment, things can get a yellow or grey tint to them. It makes me think I am seeing through the world. I am alive, awake. My senses are sharper it seems like.
Yeah dissociation is horrible. I hope medicine helps including coping skills.
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