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Hi all. This is pretty much gonna be rambling and no real structure so if that bothers you please I do advise you to not read! I’m just trying to see/find if any others struggle with these particular feelings or symptoms, and if/how it faded away/got better?
I had a really bad & long panic attack about a week or more ago now. I’m sure anyone who’s had panic attacks that are more than normal range can relate to having the “hangover” feeling a bad attack gives you for a day or some time after. Still feeling very on edge, very tired, takes a while to get back to your usual. I’m used to those days after these years. Although this past attack was probably one of my worst if not the worst, I did have hangover feeling for a few days after, but I feel like i’ve also gotten a new symptom.
That symptom being a very weird feeling of disconnection (which, obviously, we can all experience that, look where we are right now reading this). But like an emotional disconnect as well. Like I can laugh at some things, it doesn’t feel very funny or genuine, and I can’t laugh for long. It feels hard to feel love, anger, really any feeling besides worry or panic or danger I can’t feel. My fiancé, I know him, I love him, and yet I just feel like my feelings are gone or not there. It makes me saddened. My family has came to visit, and I’m usually always excited and happy when that happens, this time I feel the same flatness or emotionless. I don’t feel excited or happy, even if I smile. It makes me sad as well. And the weirdest part about these new symptoms, is that as far as dp/dr has been going, due to some exercises & distractions, I’ve been decent at ignoring these when they arise any panic or danger. It’s simple the numbness that I can’t get over or fix. I don’t know what to do, and I really miss laughing, and loving, and being excited even about something as small as what I’m eating for lunch.
Just wondering if this has happened, is common, and if people have gotten out of it/recovered? If so, please share anything that helped you, or anything you think might even help me. I wanna love my family and fiancé and my puppy again. I wanna laugh at funny things. I wanna feel the good stuff with the bad. Any response is appreciated, thank you for reading.
I had a really bad & long panic attack about a week or more ago now. I’m sure anyone who’s had panic attacks that are more than normal range can relate to having the “hangover” feeling a bad attack gives you for a day or some time after. Still feeling very on edge, very tired, takes a while to get back to your usual. I’m used to those days after these years. Although this past attack was probably one of my worst if not the worst, I did have hangover feeling for a few days after, but I feel like i’ve also gotten a new symptom.
That symptom being a very weird feeling of disconnection (which, obviously, we can all experience that, look where we are right now reading this). But like an emotional disconnect as well. Like I can laugh at some things, it doesn’t feel very funny or genuine, and I can’t laugh for long. It feels hard to feel love, anger, really any feeling besides worry or panic or danger I can’t feel. My fiancé, I know him, I love him, and yet I just feel like my feelings are gone or not there. It makes me saddened. My family has came to visit, and I’m usually always excited and happy when that happens, this time I feel the same flatness or emotionless. I don’t feel excited or happy, even if I smile. It makes me sad as well. And the weirdest part about these new symptoms, is that as far as dp/dr has been going, due to some exercises & distractions, I’ve been decent at ignoring these when they arise any panic or danger. It’s simple the numbness that I can’t get over or fix. I don’t know what to do, and I really miss laughing, and loving, and being excited even about something as small as what I’m eating for lunch.
Just wondering if this has happened, is common, and if people have gotten out of it/recovered? If so, please share anything that helped you, or anything you think might even help me. I wanna love my family and fiancé and my puppy again. I wanna laugh at funny things. I wanna feel the good stuff with the bad. Any response is appreciated, thank you for reading.
