It's not true! - Mental Health Message Board

sonalised · 06-25-2004, 08:13 AM

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

bingling · 06-25-2004, 11:33 AM

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

auntchilada · 06-25-2004, 01:25 PM

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 · 06-25-2004, 02:49 PM

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.

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Originally Posted by daisyheadmaisy

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!

valerie234 · 06-25-2004, 10:59 PM

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.