I am really hoping that is what's happening to me. Its so uncomfortable it always feels like im going to start hallucinating or something i just want it to go away. Feels like death.
I am really hoping that is what's happening to me. Its so uncomfortable it always feels like im going to start hallucinating or something i just want it to go away. Feels like death.When I first felt anxiety and dpdr I was googling too much and saw the word schizophrenia and freaked out. I looked it up to make sure I didn't have any of the symptoms like hearing voices and stuff like that. I was relieved to find that I didn't. However since then I feel like my senses are super alert and that I can notice thinks in my peripheral vision because I was so convinced that maybe I'm hallucinating things. It still happens where I'll catch a shadow or light and I guess my brain is just ready to react to danger. But when I really look I'll see that it's nothing major. I feel like when I was worried about being schizophrenic I made myself hyper aware of everything to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. The less anxious I am the less I notice things. So I came to the conclusion that it's just my brain messing with me.
Wow im so surprised that someone can relate to that and its the same for me i havent had an "episode" in 3-4 years and all of a sudden th DP comes back with new symptoms. I dont get it. Have you been to a therapist and spoke about it? If so what did they say?im waiting in my health insurance to kick in and thn im running to oneIve experienced the "seeing faces in things" for about 3 years now, but I did not have this at the beginning of my dp 7 years ago, which is kind of disturbing. So like you, I also started to have it later on I guess. This here describes it, but I think I read somewhere else that in regards to mental illness, it actually could be a part of psychosis. I think even a different term was used for it. This is all I can find on it now though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Pariedolia can happen to anyone, but in the context of mental illness, I think its related to dissociative and psychotic mental states if its happening very frequently and alot more strongly.