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I feel like I might suffer from dp but not sure let me introduce my self I am a 27 year old male about 250 weight I have been suffering from what seems to be anxiety and the feeling of not being real I have a host of phyiscal symptoms like chest feels weird acid reflux all the time weather I eat or drink or don't I feel like I'm Ampt up all the time I had a panic attack back in October of last year before that one I had had little ones that I didn't know what they was until I had the massive one it took my feelings back to when I had one when I was 18 and smoked pot for the second time and had a panic attack while high the next weekend I smoked a little bit again had a small one that lasted maybe 10 mins I walked it off but again I didn't know they was panic attack but since then I havnt smoked pot at all that was almost 10 years ago but back in October I I had the biggest one I have ever had and ever since then I've been had an Ampt up feeling and feeling like everything is fake I do have breaks I guess when I'm watching a movie and I am relaxed but when I start to think about it again it's right back to hell
 

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I am self-diagnosed with DP, though sometimes I still think I may just be plain 'ol wacko. I thought maybe a thread where people try to describe what DP/DR is like for them would be helpful for people like me. The ones who aren't sure what's wrong with them. Might make for good reference material if nothing else.

So, maybe just a brief description of the experience for you - what are the sensations, are they periodic or constant, that kind of thing. Thank you in advance for your thoughts..........
The moment I open my eyes in the morning I feel the detachment. The confusion, the surrealism, yet i know where i am. Every second of my life, I feel lost, detached, confuse, and this mental fogginess. My concentrations fails at times, and I obsess over thoughts of why i feel the way i do. I go trough the days motions like an automated robot with no soul. Yet i do noticed life, yet i sense something is not right.

It feels like I am losing my mind. I become depressed, lack motivation, and numb.

This is what I feel
 

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Some days, I'll be like - hey, I'm normal today. Other days, I'm sitting with a group of friends in a complete daze, surrounded by noise. Someone will say, Are you alright? I walk home and my surroundings seem like a pretty picture. At times I'll lose my way. I used to be a spiritual person, but I question whether I exist. It is difficult to explain.

Some days, I'll stand in the middle of the room in fear as my body just doesn't feel right. It feels as thought it's behind me.
 

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easiest way to describe it, is feeling on autopilot. my mind constantly just thinks and thinks while my body acts. I don't end up caring about things that happen because i know they're just in the past. My emotions are incredibly dull. People's family die and I don't even know what to say. To them it seems like I don't care, to me, I just understand that's part of life and I shouldn't waste my time thinking about it. I constantly look for outlets of what I can do to try to act like i at least feel. I feel like i'm running out of options to try every day and that i'll never escape. I feel like my soul mate may have even passed me by because my consciousness doesn't even feel like it's in my own body. I feel like everything is misalligned. like I did something when i was younger and forever kicked myself off my path
 

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easiest way to describe it, is feeling on autopilot. my mind constantly just thinks and thinks while my body acts. I don't end up caring about things that happen because i know they're just in the past. My emotions are incredibly dull. People's family die and I don't even know what to say. To them it seems like I don't care, to me, I just understand that's part of life and I shouldn't waste my time thinking about it. I constantly look for outlets of what I can do to try to act like i at least feel. I feel like i'm running out of options to try every day and that i'll never escape. I feel like my soul mate may have even passed me by because my consciousness doesn't even feel like it's in my own body. I feel like everything is misalligned. like I did something when i was younger and forever kicked myself off my path
ya i bet thats where the term ''curse'' came from in the middle ages...whereas these days we call it dp/dr....
 
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I feel floaty a lot of the time.

I feel like a different person than before. When I see pictures of me, it's like it's of someone else.

It's like I'm half asleep and confused all the time about everything.

Sometimes I have mini freak-outs throughout the day when I have a realization that I exist or that everything around me actually does exist.

I also feel tired and worn out.
 

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my dp/dr:

I believe I have a more dr-like experience...

I definately have perceptual and auditory integration problems. What I mean by this is often the environment seems distorted in some way, 2D-like visually. As for the auditory part, I have problems separating sounds, especially voices from background noise. Also, I feel like I am living in a dream- in unreality. I often feel extremely overstimulated/dissoriented in busy places. It's like it takes me a long time to figure out what's going on. Before taking Paxil I would have definate time lapses. I feel very much like I am high on marijuana (still)... Then there's the more physical stuff I suffer from...such as this sensation of a lack of blood flowing to my head, feeling like my eyes are going to pop out of my head or like someone has stuffed cotton balls behind and in between my eyes, peculiar muscle spasms all along the base of my skull accompanied by sounds of bones shifting, etc.... Oh and how could I forget, I suffer from "broken record syndrome" (forget who on this site called it this so sorry I can't reference you)... ANYONE ELSE WITH SIMILAR PHYSICAL PROBS please CONTACT ME.........still looking for answers....or relief.

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my dp/dr:

I believe I have a more dr-like experience...

I definately have perceptual and auditory integration problems. What I mean by this is often the environment seems distorted in some way, 2D-like visually. As for the auditory part, I have problems separating sounds, especially voices from background noise. Also, I feel like I am living in a dream- in unrealit I y.often feel extremely overstimulated/dissoriented in busy places. It's like it takes me a long time to figure out what's going on. Before taking Paxil I would have definate time lapses. I feel very much like I am high on marijuana (still)... Then there's the more physical stuff I suffer from...such as this sensation of a lack of blood flowing to my head, feeling like my eyes are going to pop out of my head or like someone has stuffed cotton balls behind and in between my eyes, peculiar muscle spasms all along the base of my skull accompanied by sounds of bones shifting, etc.... Oh and how could I forget, I suffer from "broken record syndrome" (forget who on this site called it this so sorry I can't reference you)... ANYONE ELSE WITH SIMILAR PHYSICAL PROBS please CONTACT ME.........still looking for answers....or relief.

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Hello i have problem with auditory , I have problems separating sounds, especially voices from background noise. Also, I feel like I am living in a dream- in unrealit please how can i speak to you ? is very complex problem !!!!
 

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Hi my name is Sierra. I don't really know who to talk to. I have been suffering as well with derealization for the past month in a half. It started one day at work after pulling an all nighter with a combo of coming off off Prozac and from smoking too much pot I guess. The next day at work, I had turned suddenly and then everything that use to seem familiar, seemed very strange to me. Co workers I had know for months looked scary to me, almost like aliens (don't know what other word I could use to describe it). I went home very soon afterwards, didn't stress to much about it because I figured I was just sleep deprived or exhausted because I was working a double. The next day, I didn't feel any better. It was like I was seeing the world different for the very first time. In the past month in a half. I feel as though I am simply going through the motions of life, and not living them anymore. What bothers me the most is the way the world seems to me now. Peoples faces still frighten me, and buildings as well as being outside too long, or going into a simple grocery store. When I walk into a new room I feel instantly horrible. I am able to control my actions obvious and prevail through working still, but it is the most awful experience I have ever felt in my whole life. I just want this to go away and I feel like it's never going to.
 

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It's already over. I have died in some kind of accident. I'm just walking around in a haze looking at everything at how it once was, knowing it will never be the same. I am not fully dead yet, but I sure am not alive either. It's like a pentagory i'm stuck in, before i "enter the light" or whatever. Stuck because i'm unable to move forward. I'm just lurking around looking for some kind of closure, compassion from someone else, a last goodbye and reassurance. I have many times, litterally walked around, whether it be night time or day, all by myself just looking at things, places and people. Just observing everything and wishing i could go back to life, but i can't, i'm a lost cause already. There's a constant scream inside my head, a desperation so deep words can't describe it, even an intense scream couldn't express it. if only i could "reach out" to the real world, but no one can hear me, no one can see me. When i go to school or whatever, and someone rezognize and talks to me, i am often surprised that they actually do se me. I'm thinking "don't you know i'm not real, i'm not part of this world anymore, you have to go continue your own life, it's too late for me".

This feeling is so intense, and lasts for so long without pauses, it litterally makes you forget who you are, what you are, what you are doing. a day, a month, a year, i can't tell the difference. It's just a number we make up in our head. Time is a concept that makes no sense. One moment something is, the next it's like it never even happened at all. It's just something you made up in your head. I have no idea what is my DP talking and what is real life. Even if someone knew what was going on, and sat down with me and told me it's ok, it's only DP, i would have absolutely no idea what was true and not. A big part of me would have thought i was making this person up on the spot. Everything is just one big grey mess.

Even when i force myself to participate in something, exercise, socializing or whatever it might be, it's always that same element to it. Even if things are going good, great even! At the end of the day the bigger part of me says, yeah you tried really hard and did a good job, created a worthy memory, but you know this is all just a temporary fairytale, and now it's time to let it go! So every day i have basically two choices: the days are either be "lazy" and do nothing, drowning in your own sorrows, OR, do something, spend all of your energy plus some more, and actually achieve something that day, only to find out it's all for nothing. It was just an imaginary temporary moment that is now long lost. which leaves me rendered, confused and super depressed.

All this, just an average day in the bad periods i have had in the past.
 

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I have a hard time accessing my feelings. It's like I'm unable to feel the way I think I should. Sometimes I feel as though I build walls around myself so that no pain can get to me but honestly it's almost like I am hurting myself even more but I don't know how to stop building these walls.

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It feels like I can't see anything at all and all I can see is black. My mind can't accept that I can really see anything around me. I'm just stuck in a huge black space, totally alone. I also feel that I don't exist and everything is just black. Whenever I do something, it doesn't feel like I'm doing anything. Sometimes I get that feeling that my eyes are coming out of their places. It's one of the worst feelings ever. I also feel that I'm stuck inside my body and want to tear it up and get out.

I can experience emotions very well though and I believe I have never felt numb before. They are mostly negative emotions though because that's the person I am. I also daydream all the time and I can picture the scenes moving in my mind very well. I always wonder how that happens though and I sometimes find myself unable to do this ability. It's just so strange that I think all the time while I don't even believe that I exist.
My favorite thing in this world is Music and I can feel it well and enjoy it but when I think about it, it doesn't feel real at all.

I just wonder how did I end up inside myself out of all people in the world. Why am I not someone else? I feel that if I were more lucky, I would have been God.

For so many years, I have never felt that I, or anything around me is real. Not even for a single moment.
I think I don't even care anymore. There are other things in my life that are worse. That's if there's anything as "my life".
 

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Dp is what death feels like, I think. It's like drifting in and out of sleep but while I'm awake. I feel so far away, as if I'm not real, as if this world isn't real and that I am not human. I can barely handle it half of the time. Dp makes me wish that I'd never been born.
 

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Makes me feel like things are not in the right place. I'm only observing my body move, maybe somewhat like what I want it to move like, but it never feels like I'm actually moving it.

I have no interests, in anything. Not because I don't want to, but because, I do that interest so vacuously, ephemerally, fleetingly, that it has no effect on me. Maybe I can watch a movie, but I have no opinions about the characters, no opinion about the story.

I literally just copy what appears to be the most logical opinion.

I have no friends. I have (I think) lost confidence in myself because the me that I show cannot at any point in time be possibly me. It feels like I'm fake.

I have offended so many people because of my empty thoughts, that I misunderstood them. I can't think critically for a long period.

Honestly, to others, I might appear wacky and zany, but I am not. Being in a near constant state of depersonalization inhibits my cognitive habits. I do not know how to act normal.

Even as a child, I cannot accept that I am really me. No I didn't do that. No I didn't offend you, but my body somehow is doing it without my permission.

I cannot come into acceptance regarding my state of self consciousness without finding flaws in every characterization of me. Am I even me? My entire life feels like a passive observation.

What I'm saying right now is dry and empty right? Actually, this is how the me I perceive is real writes. All other me's write like an idiot without any kind of self awareness. Regurgitating opinions.

Honestly, it feels like I was just watching a bunch of movies, for a long. Only now did I realize that there's actually a real world.
 

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Dp is what death feels like, I think. It's like drifting in and out of sleep but while I'm awake. I feel so far away, as if I'm not real, as if this world isn't real and that I am not human. I can barely handle it half of the time. Dp makes me wish that I'd never been born.
Couldn't agree more. Wish I would of never been born. I am no longer a human soul.
 
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