Feeling Disconnected from Reality

What @RattleBalls said is right. I did that a lot as a kid and still do usually it’s what kicks off my panic attacks. It can definitely go on for a long time I spent all last weekend like that🌻

I’ve felt like this for about the past 4 years constantly it’s really nice to know I’m not insane. Reading some of these comments are surreal because ive had the exact same thoughts before

I told my prescriber about the dissociation and was prescribed venlafaxine. Different things work for different people but the medication has helped me for sure.

I’ve struggled on and off with dissociating for years. Sometimes it’s brief, other times it lasts months. It really depends. I’ll feel like my body doesn’t belong to me or that the world feels less real than my dreams. Things of that sort. Medication and therapy are helping me a lot right now but I still struggle with it daily. It gets worse when I’m driving the car for some reason or out of my house. Mine I’ve been told is from my PTSD. Apparently dissociating is how the brain protects itself when in high stress situations but when you have a mental illness it can “malfunction” causing it to be a constant issue when you’re not in danger.

ive been feeling the same a lot lately, it got so bad the other day i had to ask my partner if i was real or just their imaginary friend because ive felt so not-present when they arent there to help ground me. it sucks absolute ass, i wish i could tell you a way to feel normal again, but all i can say is youre not alone 🙃

Yeah it's called dissociation