[Guest]

Hi, OK I went to the neurologist and explained my symptoms as best as I could, and he seems to think short of a CT scan everything is fine and my symptoms are stress and anxiety related, so since then I have felt allot better and my anxiety has halved, if not almost gone, sure I will probably not feel completely fine until I have had the CT scan and been told 100%! that I am 100% FINE! but I do feel MUCH better since speaking to the neurologist who was reluctant to even refer me for a CT scan.

Problem is, I am fairly happy, relaxed, not very stressed, only a LITTLE worried but mainly a tad depressed due to the way the world looks around me, because this feeling of surreality and dream-like state wont GO! it in itself is causing anxiety, a little, I don't really like the way the world looks at the moment, and how I feel very detached from my surroundings, so I am in a bit of a trap, I am worried that because most of my anxiety and stress has gone, and the feeling of DR remains, that maybe there IS a problem with my Brain.

Can the feeling of DR take some time to go even after the stress/worry has gone?

or should it go when I am feeling fine, because I often feel completely fine and sometimes I don't even notice it, but it IS always there, specially when I am out in big spaces I can see the world looks more obviously strange, same when watching TV from far away.

I dunno I am confused and worried, any advice would be so much appreciated, I know I ask for allot of advice but the problem is not one single person I have spoken to can offer me anything better than "its just stress" that's the answer I get from doctors, opticians, neurologists, family, friends etc, I feel like people are just saying "FOR FUX SAKE SHUT UP WHINING ON! we ALL GET STRESSED" but I wish people could see through my eyes because I feel they would just stop and say "OH SHIT, I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN, OH DEAR! Ewwww this is HORRIBLE!!"

can the DR remain after anxiety/stress has gone? I only got such bad anxiety AFTER I got the DR, it went in this order..

STRESS..
MORE STRESS.. Then..
DR!!!!! Then DR Caused..
ANXIETY!!!+More Stress (Because I did not know what DR Was) Then..
MORE Anxiety + MORE STRESS + MORE Intense DR
(Neurologist appointment "I am almost positive you are fine")
LESS Anxiety, LESS Stress, SAME DR!!
Still Same DR!!

That's pretty much where I am at now, DR, the same.

I don't get DR at times or moments of stress/worry, it just came and stayed, and because I stopped worrying so much since I have been to the neurologist and feel much better within myself, I am now worrying because the DR HAS STAYED!

Somebody PLEASE HELP!

 

[ShyTiger]

I have dr sometimes without feeling anxious. I can have dr just from oversleeping or being tired or sinus stuff or for no reason that i can think of. I know the cycle well thou of dr-panic-dp-panic-dr-panic just esculating. I ususally have to break the cycle somewhere and i do that by body relaxation, focusing my attention on something else and cbt. Can you try not focusing on how wierd things look? Try maybe going through to do lists in your head or things you would like to buy with $10,000 or anything that is going to take you focus away from the dr. Also would telling yourself that it hasnt physically harmed you and you are getting cheaked out and doing all you can so therefore worring about it is not going to change things and is actually not helpfull? Try everytime you start to think about the things that could be wrong with you, stop yourself and change your thoughts to something else? It is hard to do but the more you do it the easier it becomes. These are just things that i have found helpfull so i hope they are some use for you.

 

[Martinelv]

Why you can have DR/DP without seemingly evident anxiety or depression has always been a mystery to me. Panic/Anxiety and DR/DP, for me, are intimately linked. So it's one of two things - either you have some kind of buried trauma which, even though you don't recognise it consciously, is manifesting itself as DR/DP, or you have developed some kind of 'learned behaviour' - like you are stuck in the DR/DP cycle for some reason. Does that make sense?

 

[Guest]

Thanx to you both for your replies,

Both replies are helpful,

I have just got back from the Gym and I feel fantastic within myself, but the world still looks completely unreal and odd, like my conciousness has half shut-down, and the problem begins now for me, the more I pay attention to how odd the world looks, and how disconected I feel from it, the more depressed I get, worrying I will never see the world the same again, then the more Anxiety I get, worrying I have something wrong with my brain (tumor etc yet I show zero signs of Neurological Trauma except this DR/Dream-Like Perception)

I think I need that CT scan to find out for sure if there is some sort of problem, and if there is not maybe then I can stop worrying and just try harder to ignore it all, and maybe it will ease off in time with me just getting on with my life and enjoying it as best as I can.

 

[agentcooper]

Why you can have DR/DP without seemingly evident anxiety or depression has always been a mystery to me. Panic/Anxiety and DR/DP, for me, are intimately linked. So it's one of two things - either you have some kind of buried trauma which, even though you don't recognise it consciously, is manifesting itself as DR/DP, or you have developed some kind of 'learned behaviour' - like you are stuck in the DR/DP cycle for some reason. Does that make sense?

as always, i must step in here and say that my dp/dr is not caused by anxiety or depression...my dp/dr is caused by hormones. i'll swear by that on a stack of bibles.

 

[orangeaid]

I honestly think that Dp/Dr is just a form of "less conciousness". I think it is closely related to epliexy, I think the reason why some epliexy drugs work sometimes is becasue the two diseases have similar chemical reactions that take place in the brain.

 

[Guest]

I honestly think that Dp/Dr is just a form of "less conciousness"

Thats EXACTLY what I feel like "less conciousness" I WANT MY CONCIOUSNESS BACK!

I think it is closely related to epliexy, I think the reason why some epliexy drugs work sometimes is becasue the two diseases have similar chemical reactions that take place in the brain.

So I do have a disease of the brain? im confused, and really not happy at all.

I feel fine within myself but its just like my suroundings are surreal and unreal.

sombody please help this is so miserable and I cant find any answers, I live in the UK and it seems nobody knows anything.