Depersonalization/Vertigo/Depression...PLEASE PLEASE READ AND REPLY [Archive]

anxiety_1234

12-12-2006, 10:57 PM

Okay..So I'm not really sure where to start. But I will just blab hat I'm feeling and hopefully at least one person out there can relate to me. I have been suffering from anxiety for almost 2 years now. I'm taking zoloft..(im 18) and it was helping in the beginning ...but then about 4 months ago my anxiety started coming back really bad with symptoms I'v never had before..which then made me depressed because i was like..."great here we go again". Recently I'v been doing some research and all of my symptoms are clicking to depersonalization and derealization. Some of my symptoms are...Feeling really out of it..questioning reality..like..what is reality? Looking at myself in the mirror and thinking...i'm just this thing with arms and legs..i feel like my head is detached from my body. i dont know what makes me happy anymore. I feel like i'm just going day to day...feeling out of it..sad, tired, kinda like im in a dream. And also...Vertigo...For the past year..when I look at something.its like my eyes are moving..or like everything around that one thing is moving. I'v been to the eye doctor but he said there is nothing wrong. I'm wondering if this whole time it has been vertigo? Is that what its like? I guess I just need some reassurance. I feel like i'm going crazy!!!! I just want to feel like I used to!!

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huffnpuff

12-13-2006, 12:34 AM

You probably should see an ear, nose, throat specialist (ENT) to check into the dizziness/vertigo. I suffered from vertigo for about three months - it is the sensation of things spinning around in the room. Even after the worst of it was gone, I could not go into a large area (like a store) with all the fluorescent lights, etc., or I would feel like a was going to faint. Most of it is gone now but it has left me with a lot of anxiety. Did you explain your problem to your doctor? Maybe you need something for your anxiety. Good luck. Sorry you are feeling so bad, but you need to get some help with it.

Happy Days

12-13-2006, 08:18 PM

Depersonalization is part of the anxiety. I would go into a store or mall and feel like I was having an out of body experience. Did not feel like my soul and senses were connected to my body. I have been taking Ativan for the past two years and have not had any bad symptoms of anxiety or panic attacks in two years.

Doctors say these antidepressants help anxiety but I get more help by using benzodiazepines. Klonopin is a newer benzo. While I was in the hospital, a lot of patients were taking this drug and said it works for their anxiety. Best wishes. :angel: :angel: :angel:

MissAngela

12-13-2006, 08:58 PM

bucks85

12-13-2006, 11:14 PM

love klonopin... xanax is better just only wish it lasted as long as klon.

Happy Days

12-14-2006, 03:48 AM

I could have written your post myself! It explains exactly how I have been feeling.

However, it has made me start obsessing about turning schziophrenic. Its my biggest fear!

Good Luck!

Angie
:angel:

Miss Angela,

I read a post on another board that said if you think you are schizophrenic, then you probably are not. Schizophrenics do not think they have a problem. This statement is so true. My mom suffered with schizophrenia and she thought her delusions and voices were real. Many times people with schizophrenia do not take their meds or seek help because they believe their world is real and they have no illness. It is probably anxiety that is causing you to feel this way.

joe2310

12-14-2006, 05:38 AM

vertigo is intense ,you don,t have it(hard core)i think its depression I take 10mg of lexapro for vertigo! it slows input to the brain good luck!

langy

12-14-2006, 07:05 AM

hi i had vertigo and it was all related to anxiety and tension in my neck and how i was holding.i have depersonalisation and it comes and goes and its always worse when my anxiety is at its worst. shops are a problem its the florescent lighting it is overstimulating on the eyes for anxiety sufferers and causes oversensitivity a good idea is to wear sunglasses especially the ones that tint with the conditions it does help.another idea is when shopping dont look at the people find a sign or picture thats higher than the people and focus on that whilst walking along it helps the vertigo ive tried it and it does help.i too want to be the person i was after over 15 years of getting well then it coming back then i get well again and it returns again its very frustrating.one other thing i tend to go out shopping when its dark when my nerves are bad as things dont seem as unreal and depersonalised as theres not as much overstimulation on the eyes as its dark. hope this helps x

bek262

12-14-2006, 08:58 PM

I have had anxiety for 3 years. Dizziness has started the last 2 months. It is a feeling like I am swaying or off balance. Sometimes when I am walking I feel like I am getting pulled to one side. also when I stop walking it feels like I am still moving in that direction. It is worse when I go out to shopping centres and large places. My doctor reckons that it is my anxiety as I have a HUGE fear (since this dizziness started) of passing out.

I get heaps of neck and shoulder and upper chest tension, I feel myself sitting and standing so tense. I am also a chest breather and not a belly breather so this makes me dizzy to apparently. I tested myself by purposly overbreathing and it makes me feel nearly the same as I feel when the anxiety is bad!

I want to know if this is the same sort of feeling/symptoms that you get?:dizzy:

MissAngela

12-19-2006, 10:45 PM

staycalm

12-20-2006, 11:44 AM

i used to have similar sensations. I suffered from all major anxiety symptoms for 3 years. I would feel like i was in a dream. I could see everyone but no one could see me. I also went to the eye doctors but everything was normal. It was the feeling almost as if I didnt even exist. This is all the result of extreme anxiety, panic attacks etc. Try to relax. Don't think that there is something terribly wrong with you. These sensations will go away if you just try to focus on the positive. Practice relaxing breathing technique from Yoga ( Alternate nostril breathing, with your eyes closed.) But the one thing that truly helped me without any effort, within few months was gemstone therapy. You should go online and read more information on it before you go spending money. email me if you need to at {REMOVED}.

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tweeny456

12-26-2006, 08:18 PM

I Also feel very much the same as you. mine started last year in my pregnancy , last oct , i dont feel dizzy like you do but all i can describe how i feel like i,ve been drinking or on drugs, but i,ve never took drugs . I feel out of it like in a dream world , allday long mine never gets any better. i can go to my mum and dad,s i know i,ve been but feel like i havent if you get what i me. i,ve been in a dream for over a year and its really getting down, ive got 2 children to look after and its hard work when you feel well never mind lfeeling out of it.I,ve seen doctors and everybody and they cant really understand why i feel like this all they can say is they think its anxiety, had blood test done , even asked to have a ct scan which i payed for cos the doictors woudnt send me for one , was sure something would show up but come back normal, which i should have been pleased , but i wasnt because i thought if they could just find something what they could get me better from, dont get me wrong i,m glad they didnt find anything serious but i thought im back to not knowing what it is again . feel that doctors are not botherd because they havent got it , and also because they know all my blood tests are o.k they just think i,ve got to live like this, feel like they have just washed there hands on me and when i do go they tell me they cant do any more for me and ive got to live like this , like to see them living like this . i used to love life and be full of enegry , but all i want is to sleep. when i tell my friends and family how i feel like i,ve been drinking or a drugs they say its wierd ,they tell me to be happy because ive got everything going for me a nice house , car , lovely husband and 2 lovely children and good looks , but i say to them it doesnt help way i feel i would be happy if i could get shut of this out of it drunk feeling then i would be happy , i do try to carry on to having a normal life going shopping going to my friends even going drinking in pibs but because i feel drunk to start with i do drink when i go out but i,m scared im goingto go in a coma . i feeel like ive got something nobodys sure what it is so they just say its anxiety . is there anybody out there who has got this drunk dream like feeling 24, 7 just like me i would love to here from you . nobody should have to livelike this . AS anybody reading this who has felt like me got better from this feeling i would love to here from , it would give me hope please let me know . tweeny.

j2006

12-27-2006, 08:10 AM

I had this for a long time - every day - every minute. I bought The Linden Program and it worked. I now only suffer periodically. I also take Celexa. It is hard to handle having these feelings all day long but you must try. Do not pay attention to it. It will make your anxiety worse and that is why depersonalization is present. Believe me - I know what your going thru but you must get your anxiety under control a bit before the dep. will go away. It will go away in time. If you have any questions, let me know.

tweeny456

01-01-2007, 07:36 PM

Thankyou, for your advice, i bought the linden method and it didnt work over a year ago, you name it i,ve tried it ,ive never took them tablets what you are talking so its worth a go. i try and keep myself busy but no matter what i do it never go,s away i wish i could go back to feel right i feel so out of it allday i t makes me feel really down and i start getting nasty with my family i just want to go back to that person who i once was , i know it sounds silly but ive felt like this for this for over a year i dont know whwt its like to feel normal. i feel my doctors in england are not botherd about the way i feel and told me they cant do anymore for me, so i feel thers no hope left for me and i wonder if it is anxiety and if its not a mystery illness whats been brought on in my pregnancy, all i want is to be a normal happy mum i look at my children and feel sorry for them wish they could have a well mum and it upset me when my 9yr old boy says i thought when you go to the doctors they would get you better and why cant they. did you feel the same as me allday long. thankyou for replying to me it gives me hope that oneday i might get out of this dream world which i live in . once again thanks.

bek262

01-01-2007, 07:54 PM

I hear you and I feel exactly the same. AND can I relate to the angry with the family etc. I think that that is the worse. I have a 2 and a half year old and sometimes I feel like I am so grumpy and mean to her that I get angry with myself and my anxiety started during my pregnancy and got worse after her birth.
I am seeing a phsycologist (second visit tomorrow) we are going to start CBT and see if I can get anywhere. My first visit was just for a history.
My dizziness is bad today and was bad yesterday. Christmas day it was really bad also. So i feel guilty that I couldn't enjoy Christmas with my family and play with the toys and be happy (I did play with them but I was by no means the happy go lucky person I was).
I had heaps of sinus and headachey pressure yesterday and I have it today also, but the doctor reckons that I don't suffer from sinus infections or anything like that and he also reckons that sinus wiouldn't cause that sort of dizziness.
I feel for you and anyone that suffers with this.
Part of my therapy will be to soon give up researching my symptoms and stop talking about them on sites like this, but until then I will be here

tweeny456

01-02-2007, 06:28 PM

hi i dont have dizzness i just feel out of it i dont lose my balance i just feel like im on drugs or been drinking and i just feel out of it from the minute i get up allday long , its that bad i cant wait to go to bed im just in a dream world 24/ 7 and i just wish i could get back to the person i was, and get out of this terrrible dream world ,its hard work looking after a baby feel well never mind like this i still dont think mine is anxiety keep thinking they missing something. do you feel out of it allday long like me bek262 or do you have good days.tweeny.

bek262

01-02-2007, 07:36 PM

some times it is for days at a time and other time I can go a few days without it. But most of the time I am waiting for it to be there so that is just as bad as being dizzy. Sometimes I have it all day and other times I get little burst of dizzyness that takes me totally unaware.

My dizziness is hard to explain it is not the sensation of the room spinning. It is like I am swaying or off balance. I stop walking and it feels like my body keeps moving in that direction. Most times it is worse when I get up. It is not my blood pressure or sugar cause I have had a 24 hour bp monitor and millions of sugar tests. So I think that I have to beleive that it is anxiety

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