If distraction is helping you for now then I'd just carry on until you're at a point where you feel you don't need to distract yourself as much. You are coping with this and you will get better, it will just take time.
Empty (Please give advice)
Hi everybody,
Hope you are having a fantastic weekend so far. I just wanted to let you know my struggles lately. It hasn't been fun.
Basically, I have to constantly be on the phone or on the computer as a distraction because if I am alone with my thoughts I go crazy. Lately I have been feeling like my brain is empty. Like there is no person in that brain, or someone has replaced me. I can't even go to the bathroom without my phone because when I am sitting there alone in the bathroom, I go in & out of my personality & reality. I panic, I freak out, and rush back to my computer to get my mind off the DP.
I was wondering if anyone else has this problem, and do you have any advice? How can I move away from the distractions? I need to do this slowly but surely in the best way possible.
Most of my "anxiety" feels have decreased & I can go out & talk to people normally. But I just always need a distraction. Help please
I really hate this empty brain feeling.
-Depersonalized 15 y/o Teen
Hope you are having a fantastic weekend so far. I just wanted to let you know my struggles lately. It hasn't been fun.
Basically, I have to constantly be on the phone or on the computer as a distraction because if I am alone with my thoughts I go crazy. Lately I have been feeling like my brain is empty. Like there is no person in that brain, or someone has replaced me. I can't even go to the bathroom without my phone because when I am sitting there alone in the bathroom, I go in & out of my personality & reality. I panic, I freak out, and rush back to my computer to get my mind off the DP.
I was wondering if anyone else has this problem, and do you have any advice? How can I move away from the distractions? I need to do this slowly but surely in the best way possible.
Most of my "anxiety" feels have decreased & I can go out & talk to people normally. But I just always need a distraction. Help please
I really hate this empty brain feeling.-Depersonalized 15 y/o Teen
