[peaceboy23]

So I'm becoming convinced that what I have is something worse than dp/dr, that it's not that. For example, every once in a while today I've just stopped and almost screamed and rocked back in forth in my chair because my mind feels like it is eating me alive. I read other people's posts and I don't feel connnected, it's like no one has this horrible thought process thing that I have...the very thoughts being suspect, not sure how I'm thinking, terrified that I even think, feeling lilke I'm trapped in my head. I know it's dp but for some reason I can't beleive it, that dream I had last night freaked me out more than anything. I'm losing hope. Sigh.

 

[lemontea]

I think it's common for us to fear that we have something "more" than dp/dr...

You know, the worst thing about dp/dr isn't really dp/dr itself. For me, it's the fear it will get worse, that I will disappear from reality completely, become schizophrenic, dumb, dead, etc., etc.

It's only DP/DR.

It's only DP/DR...

I hope so..

 

[fingertingle]

I've done the collapse on a tile floor rock back and forth crying and losing my breath thing..... It wasn't even just merely a thought.. I have actualized this. This was in the beginning when I wasn't constantly torturing my mind with the notion of the disease/all the questioning - I can't imagine how it would have been if I had. Although I don't know how I'm trying to convince you its one thing, when I feel the same way and I'm pretty convinced I'm going brain dead. Agh. Sorry. But I've been there?

 

[orangeaid]

I think one of the worst feelings is not the dp/dr itself, but I do worry about getting so bad to the point where i go into pshycosis.

 

[Milan]

Peaceboy, even today I get some extreme altered mental states and I truly believe that no one and I mean NO ONE can be experiencing what I'm going through. I push DP/DR aside because it's got to be something else that I'm experiencing, something more extreme, something so DIFFERENT that not even anyone on this DP board could understand. And I totally believe that I'm going to lose my self. That's why we come here often trying to describe the impossible symptoms in grave hope that someone else understands what we are feeling. We don't want to think we are alone in the world with this evil. And even if people reply telling you that they know what your feeling, deep inside you still think your symptoms are somewhat different. Let me tell you that what ever you have felt or experienced someone else has gone through the same hell. I know when your lost in your mind it is scary but you are not alone a lot of us have been there and your not going to lose it. Trust me on this one (I know you won't but try). Please relax and try to lose yourself in some activity until the worst has passed. Actually I'm feeling pretty bad at this moment. I need some sleep.

 

[g-funk]

I still have these thoughts and I have been there and back many times. The only thing you can do is stop trying to figure it all out, I promise you.

At that point when the thought enters your head and you are freaked out, tell yourself, 'this is a temporary glitch, ignore it, it will go away'. It is just a thought, a feeling, and the more you tune in, the more important they become to you. You will not be able to talk yourself out of it because at that point you are not thinking straight, you need to NOT self monitor and absorb your brain in something else, no matter how hard it seems. Accept that you feel sh*t, and that it WILL pass, you KNOW it will, it has before, there is no reason it won't again. Nothing has happened in your brain, nothing has broken, you are just focusing too much on how you feel and causing yourself distress.

You will not go mad.

You will not go mad.

You will make yourself more miserable, but you will not go mad.

I repeat, you will not go mad.

 

[LISA NICHOLS]

i feel like that too!!!!
i sometimes feel im going crazy i am going crazy it scares me so much sometimes
why do i feel like this you know what when i were younger and i still do it now i look at my body well what i can see of it as i am in it lol but look and think omg im inside this then i start to panic it feels weird not right i remember doing that when i were 7
i told my parents and they just looked at me like i was mad ( well i feel it)!! but i said to them just keep thinking about your body look down and see your body your trapped in it when you think about it for long enough boy does it play with your mind :shock: