[squish_is_me]

So I am having a mild to moderate DR day. First one in a while. Maybe a month. I was just sitting outside smoking and it occured to me how incredible calm and subdue I have felt today. I thought DR and anxiety went hand in hand. Yet my anxiety is very minimal today. Dunno if I am looking for comments or thoughts or what. Just thought it was weird and decided to share my observation.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I get dr all the time without having anxiety. It just comes in waves throughout the day. It is very uncomfortable and I am so tired of having it. It feels like an enigma to me. I am healthy, I have done a lot of work on my emotional self, I have a good life............. yet I suffer daily from this crap. I have not been successful at letting it go or moving on. I continue to worry about it, look for it etc....

Enjoy your day 8)

sassy

 

[jft]

Ditto and ditto. I too daily have dr, and then dp if dr is bad, creep in without any anxiety. Today it is nasty and the only stress I have this moment is watching beautiful autumn leaves fall off the trees. Everyday in llate afternoon it creeps in no matter what I am doing. It can occur anytime during the day depending on circumstance (being indoors, talking too long to people, traveling, being under articficial lights, reading too long etc) but it always occurs later in the day regardless. I often wondered if this could be that the little stresses of any day accumulate toward days end and have an effect. But it behooves me to understand how I can be so calm and enjoying so much what I am doing and have this shit come on like I injected 10cc of dr/dp. There seems no rhyme or reason to it.

Another thought is that like sassy, I have worked on the anxiety issues. And I do not focus inward anymore ( I do not dwell on symptoms) I am not feeding these symptoms and have not done so in years and yet I suffer from it. I can be obsessive and ruminative about circumstance, but I rarely focus on dr/dp or symptoms and yet they visit me daily. No anxiety, and I focus outward and yet I suffer every day. Go figure.
jft

 

[Tom Servo]

Me three. Or is it four? I'm not very anxious, I'm only depressed now and then, I'm phobic about spiders but not much else... Prior to finding a med that took some of the DP/DR edge away I was absolutely miserable, though. Was it some of the DP/DR going away lifted that my mood, or was it the anti-depressant lifting my mood that made some of the DP/DR go away? Dunno. Maybe I'm not depressed or anxious due to the emotional numbness. I doubt it, though. I was in a state of complete horror before, yet somehow still emotionally numb. I've never figured that one out. It's like I was numb to everything good, but nothing bad. What a stupid brain!

 

[terri*]

Me five? Whichever...like each of you, no big anxiety usually, but ongoing DR 24/7, 7/11, 7uped and 7 squared.

What
is
that
about ???

Stupid brain, indeed! :?

 

[Tom Servo]

I'm glad you agree that my brain is stupid!

It's weird, because in spite of my relatively low depression and anxiety levels, the meds that have helped me the most are anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds. WTF? Then again, there's a whole sh*tload of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds that don't do anything at all for me. That makes it even more confusing.

Terri*, what animal is that in your avitar?

 

[terri*]

Well,I am an agreeable type person.

So yeah, being a full-fledged member of the Stupid Brain Club, it is only fitting that

It's weird, because in spite of my relatively low depression and anxiety levels, the meds that have helped me the most are anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds. WTF? Then again, there's a sh*tload of anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds that don't do anything at all for me. That makes it even more confusing.

What's confusing about that, Mr. Tom Servo? Makes perfectly good nonsense to me. :lol:

SBC Solidarity

 

[Guest]

My dr has been really strong the last month. I will be going about my business, working on the computer, look up, and suddenly everything feels wrong, looks wrong. Today I felt as if I did not belong in my house or in my life. It was the strangest feeling. Scary!!! Can you guys relate to that feeling?

Does anyone really know what cause dr.........i mean really know!!!

I wonder if the herbs and supplements I am taking are causing my dr to be worse. Of course I am wondering that, isn't that what we do best!!!!

Sassy

 

[terri*]

Hi Sassy,

I really can relate to how your feel at times.

Here's my list of somethings I have obsessed about over the years that could be causing my DR.

my hairdryer...it was old and i thought those ionised things might be eating my brain up. lol..now.

my haircoloring...again, eating my brain up thought. lol...now.

toothpaste...I was starting to get paranoid over everything. :shock:

hairspray...basically anything in my bathroom to begin with because that is where I always "looked" so weird. Of course then I realised everything looked weird everywhere.

Damn this disorder! Makes me crazy...er!

 

[Guest]

OMG!!! LMAO!!! I too have thought the same things!! Plus I must add, my lotion, lip gloss and sun glasses!!!

Sassy :lol:

 

[Guest]

Indeed I have the same problem, I often feel fantastic, not good, but fantastic! specially when I am training at the gym and afterwards, but nothing ever changes with my Vision, now matter how happy I feel, DR Symptoms are there continuously, I find the only time they are not bothering me is when I am ignoring them, but the funny thing is that's hard to to when you have your eyes open!

It makes me Depressed feeling so detached from my surroundings, nothing much else, just depressed, so really I focus on beating the depression and try and jst accept the DR, and ignore it as best as possible, rightly or wrongly, I treat the DR as a side effect of depression now, so instead of worrying about the DR I fight feeling depressed, after all if you are happy, who cares about DR!?! if u think about it that kind of makes sense, the only thing that really makes me unhappy is the DR at this time, so if I can do something that makes me be really happy, I have beaten indirectly the DR, by beating the problem that DR causes (Depression)

Make sense? probably not..

*looks for he rock he came from under*

:?

 

[Martinelv]

I've had DR and low anxiety. I've even felt at peace at times, during DR. I think it's the intensity of the DR that matters.

 

[terri*]

"Terri*, what animal is that in your avitar?" Tom Servo

I really don't know. When I first picked it, the question also came up as to what end the gasmask is on. :lol:

It's just a screwed up little animal with a mask on, ergo it is me... with fur.