[John8372]

Hi, I'm looking for help. I'm stuck as I feel trapped from going to seek help from my GP. I have had a mental battle with myself for the past week and I'm at the edge of my tether. I'm honestly scared to go and explain how I feel. It hard to explain too. I feel like crap most of the time and question reality too.

It started 3 years ago on and off and felt like I was dreaming and my sense of reality was missing. I told other how I was feeling and how scared I was but told to stop and to grow up. I dealt with if for weeks and since then it has been coming back on and off throughout the years. Now it's gotten to a scary point, I'm scared, feel stuck and nothing see real and looks and feels like a dream. I see it as I've got out of bed but never really woken up. I don't know if any one feels this but I get an immense pressure on the back of my neck like some one is grabbing it.

I recently got a job and was feeling fine but I am now feeling like I'm in a dream, it makes me not want to work as I'm forgetting basic things, find it hard to interact with others becuase it doesn't feel real and scares me inside too.

I want to go to my GP but don't know how to explain myself and is hard too when talking.

Please help, many thanks John.

 

[Cheggy]

Hi. I have been suffering with dp for a long time. I don't know if I can help... but I can relate. I started a job and found it very hard.. I kept forgetting things etc.

 

[Amethysteyes]

Dont worry, those feelings are all normal. First step in recovery is to recognize your accually ok and to try and accept how you feel right now. Its super hard and takes time but it gets easier.

 

[Tomisahoss]

Message me if you would like. Im not necessarily a "long time sufferer," but I know my way around the block. Do yourself a favor and order the book "hope and help for your nerves" by dr claire weekes. It quite literally saved my life when this all first began. Im sure it will do you immense good.

 

[Tomisahoss]

As for the neck grabbing, this was a huge thing for me when my anxoety first kicked in around 19 years old. Im 22 and change now. I actually developed a scary monster in my mind that would reach out and grab my shoulders whenever I felt anxious and it terrified me. One day I had enough and slapped a rainbow afro on his head and made him talk like goofy. He went away almost immediately and I havent thought about him in 2 years. Muscles tense up when anxiety flares. You and I just happened to notice it more in our neck and shoulders. It may be uncomfortable, but surely nothing to worry about.