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Hello everyone, I in advance for my English because I'm Italian.
I'm 21 years old, I've always been an anxious and hypochondriac girl, I've already had this experience at 16 after having an anxiety attack while smoking weed, but this time the situation is very different and I'm even more scared.
I would like to tell my symptoms hoping that someone will find themselves in me.
It's been about a month now that I feel as if my mind is detached from the body, as if it is totally empty and it only works when I think about how I feel, I no longer have track of time, I feel totally absent, people could talk to me and I continue not to answer remaining lost in the void, even if I can listen to them, I remember things in a strange way , as if they were far away or I didn't make them, it's difficult to describe, I lost my personality, I don't feel emotions except anxiety and fear, sometimes I cry because I don't understand what's happening to me, I no longer have the drive to do anything, I lie in bed all the time thinking about nothing and staring into space,
when I see my cat that I've always loved, I don't get the urge to touch or cuddle him, I just look at him.


when they talk to me I don't even know how I can answer, I have I read that these sensations can also be caused by a tumor, so I went to a neurologist for a visit and he told me everything was fine.
I have an absurd fear of having a serious brain problem, I would like to have an MRI scan but I am afraid of the result.I
I did about 3 weeks sleeping three hours a night, for two days I've been taking xanax which allows me to sleep many hours, but when I wake up I feel totally empty, without instincts or thoughts, I would like to just stay in bed all the time, moreover the environments seem unfamiliar to me, for example I am in my room but I have no connection, thought or familiarity with it, when I leave the house my mind becomes even more empty and I feel as if I don't know the places I am even if in the my mind can retrace the streets.
I used to smoke a lot of weed before feeling like this but I haven't had any panic attacks, I've had a lot of stress with my boyfriend, hysterics and health anxiety, but I don't know if those things can lead to feeling this way
haven't been out for a month because I have more and more anxiety.

Now for example I feel much better but I still don't feel 100% myself, it's a constant ups and downs, if it were a tumor maybe it would always be worse?

I would like to understand how to get back to myself, if anyone has any advice I would gladly accept it ..
I hope someone will answer, thanks in advance
 

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Hello everyone, I in advance for my English because I'm Italian.
I'm 21 years old, I've always been an anxious and hypochondriac girl, I've already had this experience at 16 after having an anxiety attack while smoking weed, but this time the situation is very different and I'm even more scared.
I would like to tell my symptoms hoping that someone will find themselves in me.
It's been about a month now that I feel as if my mind is detached from the body, as if it is totally empty and it only works when I think about how I feel, I no longer have track of time, I feel totally absent, people could talk to me and I continue not to answer remaining lost in the void, even if I can listen to them, I remember things in a strange way , as if they were far away or I didn't make them, it's difficult to describe, I lost my personality, I don't feel emotions except anxiety and fear, sometimes I cry because I don't understand what's happening to me, I no longer have the drive to do anything, I lie in bed all the time thinking about nothing and staring into space,
when I see my cat that I've always loved, I don't get the urge to touch or cuddle him, I just look at him.


when they talk to me I don't even know how I can answer, I have I read that these sensations can also be caused by a tumor, so I went to a neurologist for a visit and he told me everything was fine.
I have an absurd fear of having a serious brain problem, I would like to have an MRI scan but I am afraid of the result.I
I did about 3 weeks sleeping three hours a night, for two days I've been taking xanax which allows me to sleep many hours, but when I wake up I feel totally empty, without instincts or thoughts, I would like to just stay in bed all the time, moreover the environments seem unfamiliar to me, for example I am in my room but I have no connection, thought or familiarity with it, when I leave the house my mind becomes even more empty and I feel as if I don't know the places I am even if in the my mind can retrace the streets.
I used to smoke a lot of weed before feeling like this but I haven't had any panic attacks, I've had a lot of stress with my boyfriend, hysterics and health anxiety, but I don't know if those things can lead to feeling this way
haven't been out for a month because I have more and more anxiety.

Now for example I feel much better but I still don't feel 100% myself, it's a constant ups and downs, if it were a tumor maybe it would always be worse?

I would like to understand how to get back to myself, if anyone has any advice I would gladly accept it ..
I hope someone will answer, thanks in advance
Can you explain how you feel while reading passage??
Do you feel like whatever you have done a minute before was a dream?
 

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Can you explain how you feel while reading passage??
Do you feel like whatever you have done a minute before was a dream?
Yes, that's right, when I think of the things I've done I perceive them blurry, far away or as if they were a dream, sleeping more in the last few days the thing has decreased but I still have the perception of not being 100% in me

Do you think the rest of my symptoms are from dp/Dr?
 

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Yes, that's right, when I think of the things I've done I perceive them blurry, far away or as if they were a dream, sleeping more in the last few days the thing has decreased but I still have the perception of not being 100% in me

Do you think the rest of my symptoms are from dp/Dr?
Yes I do also have the stranger like feeling for everyone having a conversation to me.... I can't grasp what actually they want me to indicate...... I can't read and understand passage .... It takes a lot of effort to read and understand a single line..........i am totally detached from my family members and have become emotion less...... I have a problem with my memory.... Like I took my phone for opening Instagram , I took my phone and forgot why I have took my phone then suddenly I remember oooo i wanted to open Instagram........can you relate?
 

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Yes I do also have the stranger like feeling for everyone having a conversation to me.... I can't grasp what actually they want me to indicate...... I can't read and understand passage .... It takes a lot of effort to read and understand a single line..........i am totally detached from my family members and have become emotion less...... I have a problem with my memory.... Like I took my phone for opening Instagram , I took my phone and forgot why I have took my phone then suddenly I remember oooo i wanted to open Instagram........can you relate?
Yes this feeling was very strong especially when I wasn't sleeping, now I mainly have the feeling of being absent and disconnected even though I can interact with people, do you have these feelings?
 

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Hi, I exactly have all of your feelings, and it's even worse for me (I feel like I don't exist or I am stuck in a bad dream). Everything I do seems so far away some hours later, it feels like I just dreamt about it and didn't do it for true, 100% that. I don't feel like having the control of what I say when I speak to people. I feel like anything I do is pointless since I have the feeling I'm going to die. It's unbearable...

I sleep a lot though (like 11h per day) but I'm still very drowsy, I stay on my bed all the day, unable to walk, work or go out. I just stand up to eat, go to the bathroom, and shower.
 

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Hi, I exactly have all of your feelings, and it's even worse for me (I feel like I don't exist or I am stuck in a bad dream). Everything I do seems so far away some hours later, it feels like I just dreamt about it and didn't do it for true, 100% that. I don't feel like having the control of what I say when I speak to people. I feel like anything I do is pointless since I have the feeling I'm going to die. It's unbearable...

I sleep a lot though (like 11h per day) but I'm still very drowsy, I stay on my bed all the day, unable to walk, work or go out. I just stand up to eat, go to the bathroom, and shower.
I understand very well, when I don't sleep I don't even want to wash or eat, do you also have the feeling that I'm not 100% in you? As if something you had before was missing? A kind of empty mind with no initiative and ‘absence’ when people talk to you or looking at your surroundings?
 

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I understand very well, when I don't sleep I don't even want to wash or eat, do you also have the feeling that I'm not 100% in you? As if something you had before was missing? A kind of empty mind with no initiative and ‘absence’ when people talk to you or looking at your surroundings?
Yes everything looks stranger sometimes. When I think about my past and memories it feels like another life. Even another lives.
And yes, with DP you almost have no feelings and emotions anymore, it is hard to answer to people when they talk to you. You lost every senses of your mind... Sometimes I would even rather prefer to write my answer to them, since speaking feels to take so much efforts. It is really really weird.
 

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Yes everything looks stranger sometimes. When I think about my past and memories it feels like another life. Even another lives.
And yes, with DP you almost have no feelings and emotions anymore, it is hard to answer to people when they talk to you. You lost every senses of your mind... Sometimes I would even rather prefer to write my answer to them, since speaking feels to take so much efforts. It is really really weird.
You also have an empty mind?
 

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It depends on what do you mean by empty mind. I litterally feels like I have no mind at all anymore... This is really weird. I will also create a post to describe my current symptoms, since I just arrived here.
 
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Can you explain how you feel while reading passage??
Do you feel like whatever you have done a minute before was a dream?
Hello everyone, I in advance for my English because I'm Italian.
I'm 21 years old, I've always been an anxious and hypochondriac girl, I've already had this experience at 16 after having an anxiety attack while smoking weed, but this time the situation is very different and I'm even more scared.
I would like to tell my symptoms hoping that someone will find themselves in me.
It's been about a month now that I feel as if my mind is detached from the body, as if it is totally empty and it only works when I think about how I feel, I no longer have track of time, I feel totally absent, people could talk to me and I continue not to answer remaining lost in the void, even if I can listen to them, I remember things in a strange way , as if they were far away or I didn't make them, it's difficult to describe, I lost my personality, I don't feel emotions except anxiety and fear, sometimes I cry because I don't understand what's happening to me, I no longer have the drive to do anything, I lie in bed all the time thinking about nothing and staring into space,
when I see my cat that I've always loved, I don't get the urge to touch or cuddle him, I just look at him.


when they talk to me I don't even know how I can answer, I have I read that these sensations can also be caused by a tumor, so I went to a neurologist for a visit and he told me everything was fine.
I have an absurd fear of having a serious brain problem, I would like to have an MRI scan but I am afraid of the result.I
I did about 3 weeks sleeping three hours a night, for two days I've been taking xanax which allows me to sleep many hours, but when I wake up I feel totally empty, without instincts or thoughts, I would like to just stay in bed all the time, moreover the environments seem unfamiliar to me, for example I am in my room but I have no connection, thought or familiarity with it, when I leave the house my mind becomes even more empty and I feel as if I don't know the places I am even if in the my mind can retrace the streets.
I used to smoke a lot of weed before feeling like this but I haven't had any panic attacks, I've had a lot of stress with my boyfriend, hysterics and health anxiety, but I don't know if those things can lead to feeling this way
haven't been out for a month because I have more and more anxiety.

Now for example I feel much better but I still don't feel 100% myself, it's a constant ups and downs, if it were a tumor maybe it would always be worse?

I would like to understand how to get back to myself, if anyone has any advice I would gladly accept it ..
I hope someone will answer, thanks in advance

I wouldn't recommend taking any drugs because they can trigger the dpdr or make it worse. I've been taking Ashwagandha and it's really helped me with my stress, fatigue, anxiety and sleep so I definitely recommend that you try it. (of course do your own research before you do).
 
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Yes I do also have the stranger like feeling for everyone having a conversation to me.... I can't grasp what actually they want me to indicate...... I can't read and understand passage .... It takes a lot of effort to read and understand a single line..........i am totally detached from my family members and have become emotion less...... I have a problem with my memory.... Like I took my phone for opening Instagram , I took my phone and forgot why I have took my phone then suddenly I remember oooo i wanted to open Instagram........can you relate?
yes I definitely can especially with the short term and long term memory loss
 
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