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I don’t even know where to start, (I’m 17) after the summer when I got back from camp I really wanted to just adjust to being at home and not have to deal with the whole change, after a week went by I still wasn’t “fully adjusted” to being home but I thought it was just the change in places, after a while I started having “brain fog” like symptoms didn’t really feel fully “in it” I decided to distract myself but it continuously got worse and started to feel like I was there but wasn’t there when I would talk to my friends i would feel like there was a
blockage or “veil” not letting me feel fully there and connected. I kept comparing how I’m feeling now to before I had dp/dr and seeing that other people were not feeling this way. It was genuinely frightening.. I feel like it’s just all going down hill, I’m seeing a psychologist now but I just feel like this is something else. My head feels hollow and numb and when im still I feel weightless I have to keep touching things or putting pressure on myself to make me feel “here” I don’t feel real. It’s not like I have all the other symptoms tho and that’s what scares me like I do recognize myself in the mirror I just don’t feel the connection really, I feel like every time I wake up I’m more detached then the day before and I feel like I’m going down this bottomless pit forever and just keep disappearing. Sorry this is everywhere! But can someone tell me I’m not the only one and that I will get out of this ?
 

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I don’t even know where to start, (I’m 17) after the summer when I got back from camp I really wanted to just adjust to being at home and not have to deal with the whole change, after a week went by I still wasn’t “fully adjusted” to being home but I thought it was just the change in places, after a while I started having “brain fog” like symptoms didn’t really feel fully “in it” I decided to distract myself but it continuously got worse and started to feel like I was there but wasn’t there when I would talk to my friends i would feel like there was a
blockage or “veil” not letting me feel fully there and connected. I kept comparing how I’m feeling now to before I had dp/dr and seeing that other people were not feeling this way. It was genuinely frightening.. I feel like it’s just all going down hill, I’m seeing a psychologist now but I just feel like this is something else. My head feels hollow and numb and when im still I feel weightless I have to keep touching things or putting pressure on myself to make me feel “here” I don’t feel real. It’s not like I have all the other symptoms tho and that’s what scares me like I do recognize myself in the mirror I just don’t feel the connection really, I feel like every time I wake up I’m more detached then the day before and I feel like I’m going down this bottomless pit forever and just keep disappearing. Sorry this is everywhere! But can someone tell me I’m not the only one and that I will get out of this ?
That's how derealization comes for me: starts out as a stressful feeling and then like a fog that veils my head.

In my case, stress brings on the derealization. It sounds like that could be your case, but I'm no psychiatrist...just guessing from what you wrote.

And yes, I feel emotionally numb. So definitely can relate.
 
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