[niblet]

I am 22 years old and have had depersonalization is the past but it has just gone away. Two days ago while I was in the shower I got so bad I ran out crying and could not even finish the shower. I am so scared and haven't eaten anything for two days, the fear is crippling me. Has anyone been this bad and found what to do to help them? And has anyone ever had this problem to just go away on its own?

 

[Sojourner]

I don't want to scare you, but chronic acute panic can harm you physically -- not so much your brain, but your vital organs.

Go to an emergency room for help and then get a doctor.

You cannot leave this alone and expect it to go away if it hasn't already.

 

[jake]

niblet, I have had the shower thing, too. It sux. What I've been doing since mine flared back up is talk to my doctor. Come back & let u know how your day went, sending u peaceful thoughts and you aren't alone,
jake

 

[Sojourner]

I had the shower thing, too, when I had panic attacks. The really scary part was that my father had a heart attack and died in the shower when I was away at school and that made it even more scary.

 

[Milan]

Niblet,

I've had acute anxiety where I felt like I couldn't do a single thing, including sleep. My head felt like it would explode and my chest was so tight with pain. My weight also dropped drastically. In a short few weeks I lost ~ 8kg (17lbs).

I saw my doc and he put me onto a shrink who gave me an SSRI (Avanza) to help me calm down . This helped me sleep and my appetite came back. Please don't let this linger any longer - see a professional and consider mediation to at least get you over this hump. And yes I've had this thing go away once, but it came back. I'm better then I was six months ago and am seeing very slight improvements each month but it is a struggle and hard work. Please see someone real soon!

 

[Da'Burgh]

I had the shower thing, too, when I had panic attacks. The really scary part was that my father had a heart attack and died in the shower when I was away at school and that made it even more scary.

Sojourner, Stop scaring people! Your comments are so unnecessary it almost makes me sick. Do you like the attention or what? I don't see the need to post negatively to someone who has such a problem. It's wrong.

 

[Sojourner]

Sojourner, Stop scaring people! Your comments are so unnecessary it almost makes me sick.

I might have considered my initial remark to be somewhat scary which is why I prefaced it the way I did. A fair reading shows that my intent was not to scare but to convey information. I'm sorry you cannot see that.

You are entitled to your opinion. I see nothing wrong or very different than things other people have posted.

Do you like the attention or what? I don't see the need to post negatively to someone who has such a problem. It's wrong.

Everybody talks about their symptoms and I rarely do, because they are gone now. The one time I say something about one of my symptoms that matches the poster's (when I had panic) and then related how that symptom connected to my father's death (he did not have panic but had a heart attack in the shower) and all you can do is jump on me?

I think you must just be misreading my post. I trust that most people will read it differently.

 

[Da'Burgh]

Mentioning a heart attack death is totally unnecessary to bring up (especially one that occured in the shower, telling someone who is sharing their fear of panic that occurs IN THE SHOWER). I am sensitive to the fact of the occurance of your fathers death, but I believe telling someone who has panic in a shower about that is in fact wrong.

 

[Sojourner]

Thank you, Da. I was explaining MY scary experience. Plenty of people talk about very scary and unpleasant things here, and in my view, this was no different. I do not believe that the poster is going to be caused further suffering by my mentioning my father. Why do I believe this? I believe this because the poster described "the shower thing" that several of us identified with -- it's terrifying -- really it's beyond terrifying -- in and of itself. Nothing I said about my father could, in my opinion, add to the severity of what I know the poster has already experienced.

Don't you realize people post very strange and disturbing symptoms that do not send off others to experience the same thing? Do you really think I could have said anything at all that would worsen the poster's "shower thing"? I am guessing that you have never experienced the shower thing, and therefore you don't know that it's as bad as it can possibly get and hearing something from someone isn't going to make it worse. There's no PLACE for it to worsen -- no room for its utter terror to increase. It is ALREADY the worst thing that's possible.

If I applied your logic to the other posters on this forum, I'd be complaining to them angrily in public the same way you complained to me angrily and in public that the fact that they were scaring the sheeee-it out of people was making me sick. What others have posted about their perception is alarming, but it didn't cause me to go HAVE THOSE symptoms.

As far as chronic acute panic causing internal organ damage, that's a fact, and on another thread I posted a link to information about it. I WAS concerned about that scaring people, so I said very clearly that I was not trying to do so.

Thank you for hearing me out. I appreciate it.

 

[Martinelv]

.........annnnnnnnnnway, back to the original post...

Niblet - yes, I reckon that almost everyone on this forum, and more besides, have experienced the almost unspeakable panic that you've described. But, and this is a guarded 'but', I reckon that since you are young and have already beaten this crap once before, then there is a good chance that your latest episode is just a blib. The fear of DR/DP returning is very strong, so maybe you were just daydreaming and the memory of DR/DP returned and which then kicked you into panic mode. Dunno, maybe ? But the fear does fade, trust me, although I'm a psychological mess, I no longer have DR or DP, and I'm not afraid of it in the slightest. Not at all. Sure, I was to being with, but not anymore. Sometimes I look back and can't imagine how I ever felt like that.

So, don't jump to any conclusions yet...it might just be a small relapse. I had several, one of them lasting a couple of weeks, but with ever diminishing force.

 

[niblet]

Thank you everyone for your replys and thank you Martinelv, just knowing you've had setbacks and kicked them is a load off my shoulders. I have severe vertigo and have been bed ridden for months, then one day to take your shower and feel scared of yourself is too intense. I was also just wondering, if anyone reads this, can having so much stress from vertigo and also relationship probelms cause these attacks? Thanks again everyone!

 

[Sojourner]

Yes, they can. But please, we are not doctors. You need medical attention to rule out other possible causes.

Please go see a physician for a complete physical exam.

Will you please do that, niblet?