Ever feel that you are losing your mind?
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I would at least try and tackle it without the use of medication first. If you find you are really struggling maybe consider it. Its still early days yet so you can quickly counter it once you fully understand it and take the necessary steps.
Medication can only help you cope and will not actually relieve you of the anxiety. The worst thing would be to stop your medication and then get flooded with anxiety, leaving you dependant on the medication.
I want to post a long winded story about my woes, but I've already done that here. So have others.
My advice: identify the source of your angst, grow a pair and confront it, then go somewhere warm with plenty of sunshine all year round.
Problem solved.
My advice: identify the source of your angst, grow a pair and confront it, then go somewhere warm with plenty of sunshine all year round.
Problem solved.
I'm not a huge poster, but I wanna get your opinion:
I graduated undergrad business school in May of this year. I've been in the CPA affiliate space for several years and always had ambitions. I graduated summa cum laude from my college and couldn't wait for the future.
I was teetering between doing affiliate marketing or getting a full time job; I decided to become employed full time for People Media in the summer (they own blackpeoplemeet, senior people meet, bbpeople meet, etc)
One day at work, I started feeling a weird onset (light headed, confused, etc) and panicked. I ran to the bathroom and shook it off; this episode was about 6 weeks ago. Ever since then, I've never felt the same.
I feel very depersonalized, detached, and out of it; the best way to describe: I feel like I'm in some continuing dream. I have a hard time grasping what 'normal' even feels like anymore, or if life is real.
Have any of you experienced these weird thoughts? Any anxiety, panics, or spacy feelings?
I read this thread all the time and want to feel normal again; any advice or similar experiences?
Happened to me and it fucked me up for like 2 years. I never thought it would go away it was pretty bad.
But I don't have it anymore (for about 3 years now) because I realized it was nothing and it's just your own fear of those thoughts, feelings of anxiety, and "losing your mind" that is causing it in the first place. It's a loop. It only goes away when you TRULY realize that its all bullshit and nothing is going to happen to you. This may take some time for you to realize and then to truly believe. But the sooner the better.
After you have this belief (which is a fact), you will no longer freak out about feelings of anxiety or weird thoughts. They will just come and go normally and quickly without disturbance.
I remember I was drinking heavily when it all started and I wasn't able to shake it until I stopped drinking. However I drink heavily on occassion now (3 years later) and I am not affected. I would suggest stopping any drugs/drinking for awhile.
Basically this: Stop obsessing over it dude, you just had a brief panic attack that happens randomly to almost everyone. Trust me it will go away once you stop making it a bigger thing than it is.
Life is a mystery at best. I wouldn't believe those who claim to know the truth about life. Try to not fall too deep into that trap.
I would also move to a small warm beach town if I was brave enough to leave everything behind.
Meditation seems to make you calm.
See a doctor who isn't a crook. It wouldn't hurt to have a thorough checkup done.
Ultimately, who knows what matters in life. Hope for some fair time while you live.
I would also move to a small warm beach town if I was brave enough to leave everything behind.
Meditation seems to make you calm.
See a doctor who isn't a crook. It wouldn't hurt to have a thorough checkup done.
Ultimately, who knows what matters in life. Hope for some fair time while you live.
It's how I make 85% of my life decisions.
the other 12% come from magic 8 ball
and final 3% come from flipping a coin.
I must ask a question... how this feels more exactly, if it can be explained that way? I have no idea if I had these kind of experiences.
Thanks
Thanks
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.
You know how your username is 'alwaysabove'...yea i feel high all the time for no reason too.
Taking advice from a community that thinks the "DickRoll" is the height of hilarity for those in search of knowledge...
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I have had this happen once years ago when I first started to be self employed and didn't get much social interaction...kinda stir crazy. It turned out to be a panic attack and my first experience with anxiety. Panic attacks are not always "fear" of dying or whatever....you can actually feel like your losing it too. Your brain just gets out of whack. I never understood people with anxiety growing up or why people wouldn't smoke weed, etc. I do now. It sucks. I can't really smoke much weed anymore unless its a high CBD strain or it just makes me anxious and I used to smoke all day every day for 13-14 years.
That crazy feeling went away, but I ended up taking Xanax which I do not recommend because I have tried to get off it recently and ended up in the hospital even with a "normal" taper due to severe GI problems. Fuck benzos if you need them every day...I didn't listen and used them for sleep/anxiety.
If I could do it all over again I would try to get intense cardio exercise every day (mile or two a day i good as long as you sweat hard), eat really good foods and not junk/fast food, and take vitamins every day. Do this for a month or two and if you still don't feel good you will probably need meds but I don't think this will be the case. If they offer you Xanax, Valium, or Klonopin just say you want something else man. I just went through a month from hell. I thought I was going to need surgery or not be able to eat again and lost 15 lbs in a month. My digestive track basically froze and stopped moving food out of my stomach...crazy shit. I didn't think it was from the Xanax once it got so bad I was in the ER but after thousands of dollars in testing it actually was too fast of a Xanax taper. Fucking ridiculous. Good luck man - you should be good if you do as I suggested.
That crazy feeling went away, but I ended up taking Xanax which I do not recommend because I have tried to get off it recently and ended up in the hospital even with a "normal" taper due to severe GI problems. Fuck benzos if you need them every day...I didn't listen and used them for sleep/anxiety.
If I could do it all over again I would try to get intense cardio exercise every day (mile or two a day i good as long as you sweat hard), eat really good foods and not junk/fast food, and take vitamins every day. Do this for a month or two and if you still don't feel good you will probably need meds but I don't think this will be the case. If they offer you Xanax, Valium, or Klonopin just say you want something else man. I just went through a month from hell. I thought I was going to need surgery or not be able to eat again and lost 15 lbs in a month. My digestive track basically froze and stopped moving food out of my stomach...crazy shit. I didn't think it was from the Xanax once it got so bad I was in the ER but after thousands of dollars in testing it actually was too fast of a Xanax taper. Fucking ridiculous. Good luck man - you should be good if you do as I suggested.
I used to smoke weed everyday for 4 years. One day I decided to take mushrooms for probably the 3rd or 4th time and while I was tripping decided to smoke a HUGE joint. While I was smoking it I felt absolutely normal but as soon as I stubbed it out things went insane.. I won't go into detail but it was a bad trip and pretty crazy for me being quite inexperienced on psychs.
Anyway since that trip I felt similar to how you feel. Life was a dream, I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin. Something as simple as moving my arm would feel really alien and strange to me, like I was playing a computer game and just directing someone instead of it actually being me.
On top of that I got HPPD which means I experience visual distortions (mild hallucinations) almost constantly, everyday (most commonly I see walls breathing in and out, carpets patterns shifting, letters on signs etc floating away from each other).
Even the smallest bit of weed would cause me to have a massive panic attack, it was like my brain had connected the feeling of weed to having the bad trip on mushrooms. Smoking weed was like reliving the bad trip.
Everyday at work I would sit at my desk and experience these hallucinations and it would cause me to have panic attacks, at least 1 and probably up to 4 a day. I would sit there and suffer in silence (luckily I had an office job where you pretty much kept to yourself) or go to the toilet and just stand there trying to relax.
I never told anyone about it. I did think about going to the psychiatrist but DP, DR and especially HPPD are quite rare problems and not many of them will have a clue what you're talking about! So I just waited it out... Sure enough over probably 6 months the panic attacks got less and less and I'd say after a year and a half I was completely better in terms of confidence and feeling myself. This was probably 5 years ago and although I still get visual distortions I only notice it like once a week and it doesn't bother me. Overall I don't regret it happening, it definitely made me a much more confident person in the long run.
My advice is to not go to the doctors, at least not straight away. If I had gone to the doctors when I was fucked up they would have prescribed me benzo's and I'd probably still be relying on them now just to function. Yeh they will give you drugs to make you feel more normal but how are you going to feel when you come off those drugs and you've been using them as a crutch for the last 2 years - you will probably be even worse.
Have faith in the human brain bro it can repair itself...
Eat well and exercise!
That was probably way longer than it needed to be but whatever thought I'd share it.
Anyway since that trip I felt similar to how you feel. Life was a dream, I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin. Something as simple as moving my arm would feel really alien and strange to me, like I was playing a computer game and just directing someone instead of it actually being me.
On top of that I got HPPD which means I experience visual distortions (mild hallucinations) almost constantly, everyday (most commonly I see walls breathing in and out, carpets patterns shifting, letters on signs etc floating away from each other).
Even the smallest bit of weed would cause me to have a massive panic attack, it was like my brain had connected the feeling of weed to having the bad trip on mushrooms. Smoking weed was like reliving the bad trip.
Everyday at work I would sit at my desk and experience these hallucinations and it would cause me to have panic attacks, at least 1 and probably up to 4 a day. I would sit there and suffer in silence (luckily I had an office job where you pretty much kept to yourself) or go to the toilet and just stand there trying to relax.
I never told anyone about it. I did think about going to the psychiatrist but DP, DR and especially HPPD are quite rare problems and not many of them will have a clue what you're talking about! So I just waited it out... Sure enough over probably 6 months the panic attacks got less and less and I'd say after a year and a half I was completely better in terms of confidence and feeling myself. This was probably 5 years ago and although I still get visual distortions I only notice it like once a week and it doesn't bother me. Overall I don't regret it happening, it definitely made me a much more confident person in the long run.
My advice is to not go to the doctors, at least not straight away. If I had gone to the doctors when I was fucked up they would have prescribed me benzo's and I'd probably still be relying on them now just to function. Yeh they will give you drugs to make you feel more normal but how are you going to feel when you come off those drugs and you've been using them as a crutch for the last 2 years - you will probably be even worse.
Have faith in the human brain bro it can repair itself...
Eat well and exercise!
That was probably way longer than it needed to be but whatever thought I'd share it.