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- happiness._.123
- Date posted
- 36w ago
I don't feel real nowadays
I am doubting my existence, my surroundings like i am not even able to figure out what am I questioning what is life? Am in a dream? Like aaahhhhh! Or am I healing?
I am doubting my existence, my surroundings like i am not even able to figure out what am I questioning what is life? Am in a dream? Like aaahhhhh! Or am I healing?
I had this when I was 18.. I didn’t know what it was lo and behold at the age of 34 I realised it was OCD. Now I didn’t know I had it and happily carried on my life until late last year I had a bout of it with a rather horrible theme. Derealisation / depersonalisation is what I had. It was like everything was made up? Like I was watching myself, Truman show style. But one day I remember just saying to myself I accept it whatever, real hard acceptance… when I no longer fought it, it went. Not saying that this is true for everyone but just my experience. Get some exposure and practice acceptance in the present, that’s really where you need to be tuning into xx
Ah, is it derealisation?
I think it is but my thoughts are superstitious as well so does derealisation and superstition can go along as well?
@happiness._.123 - Yes it can.
@Anonymous813 Will this feeling go away?
@happiness._.123 - I haven’t dealt with this but from what I have heard is that with therapy and meds, it goes away. Also there are videos on YouTube. on how to tackle this. There are many more. Here are some links : https://youtu.be/P9qJFm95n3Q?si=fSCPhKJt5YupCfR1 https://youtu.be/Xzl63ra2oBw?si=A8laTOHMEUjc4qAF You can search up books on derealisation to help you cope.
@happiness._.123 - I haven’t dealt with this but from what I have heard is that with therapy and meds, it goes away. Also there are videos on YouTube. on how to tackle this. There are many more. Here are some links : https://youtu.be/P9qJFm95n3Q?si=fSCPhKJt5YupCfR1 https://youtu.be/Xzl63ra2oBw?si=A8laTOHMEUjc4qAF You can search up books on derealisation to help you cope.
@Anonymous813 Thanks alot buddy, i appreciate it alot I hope you stay healthy and happy always ✨😁
Totally have these thoughts and feelings from time to time. At first they were constant. I felt like I was going crazy. I did ERP for those existential fears and now the derealization only pops up about once a month. Almost like a monthly cycle. When it happens I do exposures. The feeling is only there because your focus is so turned in on your inner thoughts that you’re not paying attention to the outside world. OCD likes to run with that feeling and concoct all these existential reasons why you’re feeling that way. A mistake I made early in treatment was thinking I had to believe the thoughts in order to do a proper exposure. Instead, when you doubt your existence, try to make an exposure where you say “maybe, maybe not” and go on living as if reality is real. So live with the uncertainty of not knowing if your worst fear is true. Basically dropping the question and living life in spite of not knowing. It gets better and easier with practice. You’ve got this!
Thankyou so much for the wonderful advice i hope you stay healthy and happy 😁✨ this sounds difficult at first but yeah I'll try my best
honestly- is anything ACTUALLY real? Scientists are confirming we live in a matrix... simulation, etc. so... maybe you aren't odd for questioning existence... just the sheeple who don't know/believe that think you're "crazy" or whatever if you mention it.
idk if this is my ocd but for the past couple weeks i’ve been disassociating and getting anxious if i look in the mirror too long or look at pictures of myself. like i can’t comprehend what i look like and don’t think im real. i also have difficulty changing simple things abt my appearance like today i put in a hoop in my nose piercing instead of my typical stud and it’s making me feel weird. i feel weird taking pictures of myself, posting pics/videos of myself and like i said even looking in the mirror too long. why don’t i feel real? i feel so weird
i could be fine one day and then all of a sudden go into this long period that lasts a few days, sometimes even weeks where i feel so disconnected from everyone and everything. i will be talking to my boyfriend and think to myself “ is this really my boyfriend do i even like him “ or i’ll look at my family and be like “ is this really my family “, i feel so out of touch with reality and it is so scary. things look distorted, i feel like i am behind myself 24/7, like i am watching myself through a movie or something. it is so scary and i feel like there’s something wrong with me, and what sucks is i cant even explain what i feel, and i feel extremely alone. my birthday is coming up and i feel like i wont even be able to have fun because i will feel so weird and not present at all, i dont know what to do and i will feel this way out of nowhere. some days its worse than others, idk i feel like im genuinely losing my mind or that im gonna lose my mind and go crazy. is this normal?
Everything feels so real. I think learning about non-offending pedophiles has really screwed with me. I feel like I’m not even doing compulsions anymore like I genuinely cannot remember if I do them or not and the groinal responses are messing with me. I keep having intrusive dreams and I’m in that half asleep state and I feel nothing after that or I feel weird like a good weird, I don’t know. It’s a really weird feeling when I get those thoughts but I don’t like them, I don’t think. All I know is, I keep seeking reassurance and I feel like I don’t have OCD because the way I feel, like the way I get worked up isn’t the same as others. Whenever I try to watch a show, like 9-1-1 or daily dose of sunshine, I feel like I’m watching something I shouldn’t be. Or if I’m just on my phone, I feel like something is going to happen. I feel red flags whenever I’m on my phone, like somehow cp will appear. I know that OCD is the doubting disorder but my god, this is just crazy. I feel like I’m going crazy. Everything is just nonstop, it’s so constant and I’m genuinely scared that I’ll do something when I get out of my room. I don’t know anymore, this whole OCD thing is just making me lose my mind.
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