Ok I feel pretty bad and need asnwers...

Why is it that people say that when you feel like you're going crazy, it actually means that you're not?? Do they just say this to make you feel better?

I've just phoned up some Mental help lines... asking for information regarding some of my symptoms.

I asked them about this:

I feel like I am loosing my mind, (NOT because I feel anxious or dp/dr) I feel like my brain can't take it anymore... the brain FEELS like it will, any minute, fail and I will start hearing things or saying things that I don't mean or such. There is a big tension in the brain area when I have it. I can not handle this anymore.

I feel panicky... I keep getting bad episodes of dp/dr that just come and go, come and go, come and go, several times a day...

In the morning when I wake up, my brain feels like it's slipping away into some matrix state, where I don't recognices things or see thigns differently... I look around the room and nothing seems real everything seems strange... and I have a BIG heaviness on my chest area (no, not pain).

This is not the normal anxiety msot people have when they complaine with their chest pains... I NEVER get any chest pains.

I can't go on, I don't see any future ahead... I feel like I will go crazy. My brain feels like it can not take anymore and it's subconsiousncess will over take my mind... where I will not recognise myself or remember myself or my family. I do not see a future for myself, what kind of anxiety is this that I have??? IS it anxiety? Or are these first signs of maddness...?


Why do people say that when you feel like you're loosing your mind, you're not!...?? Are they just saying this to make us feel better... they lie to us? Or is this really true?

Thank you :(

That sound likes GAD,
No you are not loosing your mind...and you don't have to have the same symtoms as everyone else EG. chest pain.By reading your post..I can tell you I have felt this way too.People who are really loosing their minds are not even aware it is happening.I have been there..meds helped me greatly and i'm almost 100% better.Hang in there ;)

I have anxiety and I have NEVER had chest pains. Symptoms are different for everyone. I used to be terffied that I was going to lose my mind and say/do things that were out of my control. I seriously thought I was going insane. Even small things like if I said something to a friend and the friend didn't hear me and said "What did you say?" I would panic and think I said something crazy. I completely understand all of the things you are experiencing. I made my sister swear to me that she would tell me if she thought I was going crazy because I was afriad that people would lie and say I wasn't just to make me feel better. I thought my anxiety and panic attacks were the signs of going crazy or having schizophrenia or something. I can promise you that this is not the case. You are NOT crazy. When you feel like things are not real, that is called depersonalization. Lookit up online and see if you can relate. It's very scary, but only a part of anxiety and not harmful at all. I was diagnosed with GAD and panic disorder. Now I am on medication and I am 100% better. Definately talk to a professional about this....believe me, they won't think you are crazy!

So this is what I mean. People say they are affraid that they would loose their mind. But why? What are the sympoms that make you feel this? Why do you feel like ypou're loosing your mind? Could people please list sympoms that they have that make them feel like they are loosing their mind? Thank you. :)


I'm very well familier with depersonalisation/derealisation... I've had that for over a year. But, it is NOT the main worry for me. depersonalisation does NOT make me feel that I'm going crazy.

I have anxiety and I have NEVER had chest pains. Symptoms are different for everyone. I used to be terffied that I was going to lose my mind and say/do things that were out of my control. I seriously thought I was going insane. Even small things like if I said something to a friend and the friend didn't hear me and said "What did you say?" I would panic and think I said something crazy. I completely understand all of the things you are experiencing. I made my sister swear to me that she would tell me if she thought I was going crazy because I was afriad that people would lie and say I wasn't just to make me feel better. I thought my anxiety and panic attacks were the signs of going crazy or having schizophrenia or something. I can promise you that this is not the case. You are NOT crazy. When you feel like things are not real, that is called depersonalization. Lookit up online and see if you can relate. It's very scary, but only a part of anxiety and not harmful at all. I was diagnosed with GAD and panic disorder. Now I am on medication and I am 100% better. Definately talk to a professional about this....believe me, they won't think you are crazy!

Sonalised, do you have any outside influences that if were removed, may help the way you are feeling. I know for me that while I had contact with my family I just about lost control in the same way you are describing. It sounds like an extreme constant panic attack to me. Take care sonalised.

One particularily frightening episode happened to me and I erally thought I had finally gone crazy. I was talking to my sister and suddenly I stopped talking because the words that I was saying weren't making sense to me. They were coming out in normal fashion yet they were registering in my brain as unrecognisable words. My sister didn't know why I had stopped talking. INSTANTLY I began to feel lightheaded and my heart raced and I ran to lay down but it got worse and worse until I was shaking and yelling for an ambulance. That was the worst. I believe what I experienced was some sort of derealization although do not know for sure. If kind of felt like I wasn't talking, like someone else was talking...out of body type experience maybe.

Anyway, you get the point, I felt like I was going mad, but I didn't. Most of the time, I don't worry about going crazy because anxiety/stress are not precursors to going crazy.

Yrs ago I used to get really bad chest pains, I was panic free for about 4 yrs, then it came back, this time around I do not get the chest pain, yet I get dizzy, faint feeling instead... I would rather have the chest pain.

Rest assured you are not going crazy. I have heard it said that if you think you are crazy then you are not for truely crazy people think that they are normal and EVERYONE else is crazy. :)
Take care
Abby

But I bet you never felt the 'pure' felling of going crazy. Where you literaly feel like you're going crazy,NOT because of depresonalisation or, anxiety, or forgetting words and shaking. But, a going crazy feeling on it's own. There is nothing like depersonalaisation, anxiety to acompany it...

I chalange people here to yet post something that actually is what I'm trying to say here about the crazy going feeling. I've never ever met anyone that shares the same feeling that I have.

All say they feel they are gong crazy because they get a panic attack, or, feeling depersonalisation... but for my case, it's the feeling of going crazy of it's purest form. It's hard to explaine this lol... :)


People say they are going crazy when they are bored... stressed a little... have an argument with someone and can't handle it and say 'ughhhhhhh I'm going crazy!!!' - but I don't have this. I can be feeling alright and all of a sudden my brain feels pressure, feels heavy and on top of that it feels like it's going crazy. Like any minute I will start hearing things. It feels so irrotated, racy, overworked, I feel confused, my movements become strange to me...

it strange lol :)...

You sound like you are trying to separate yourself from the herd by saying.."NO, its different with me."
Sorry but its the same.

I was sitting there with my sister, I felt fine, but I started to think I was losing my mind, for no reason, I wasn't making sense. THAT is what brought on the panic attack. However you may not go into a panic attack when you experience this weird feeling. Head pressure and feeling 'out of sorts' or on the verge of going crazy are very very common with anxiety. You do not need to have a panic attack to have anxiety.

I DID NOT feel I was going crazy because I was having a panic attack(during a panic attack I only fear I will die);)
I felt I was going crazy, because I FELT I was going crazy. The panic attack came after because I didn't know what was happening to my brain.

Panic attacks are usually set apart simply by the feeling of needing to take action RIGHT NOW. Its... a PANIC.
I don't think you were neccessarily having a panic attack, but regardless, your symptoms are part of the whole panic disorder...or anxiety disorder. Even without the panic attack.
Just because your situation is not identical, don't assume it is anything more, we all experience this a little different than the next person.

I can not express enough that going crazy isn't like what you are describing. You don't just snap in to 'crazy mode' all of a sudden. I am sure others would notice your 'craziness' before you would. You are experiencing some sort of depersonalization. You may be 'challenging' others to come on and give you the same symptoms as you are experiencing but that probably isn't going to happen. When you are bent on believing you are different than we won't ever be able to convince you otherwise.

Good luck, hope you can get this all straightened out.

Take care
Abby

If it will help at all, I AM "crazy". I have a mental illness called Bipolar Disorder. What you are describing sounds more like an anxiety or panic attack to me.

There are some medications that may be able to help you deal with these feelings but (and here's the best part) only a doctor can diagnose anxiety, panic OR mental illnessess. So if you go to your regular doctor and describe what you have described to us (or print out your original letter) he will be able to diagnose and then either give you some medication to help or refer you on for further diagnosis.

This is one case where coming here can't tell you exactly what is wrong....

Hey I think I know what you are talking about. Is it the obsessive thoughts that are controlling you? Thats what I am going through right now. After experiencing GAD it leaves you very vulnerable to everything. I severely overanalyze things and it scares the sh** out of me. This makes me feel like I am going crazy. Its hard for me to explain how I feel to anyone. Its like something has taken over me and my brain is tired too! Is it the conciousness taking over that let you become vulnerable to thougts and overanalyz or what? Let me know if this sounds anything like what you are going through.

Heather