Am I losing my mind?

Hi Everyone,

I have been on Zoloft 150 mg for 16 days now for depression and anxiety but I have not felt it kick in yet and I keep feeling like I am detached from my thoughts and who I am. It is a really weird feeling and very scary, I am finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning because I feel so spaced out.

It is really hard to explain how I feel, I have read about people who feel like they get detached from their bodies and they are looking at themselves from the outside but I dont feel like that. I just feel like I am living in a dreamlike state and feel zoned out like I am going to lose touch with reality but I havent yet.

I have had two times like this in the past where I had a bad anxiety attack out of nowhere and then the next couple of weeks it felt like my brain was not working correctly but it usually only lasted two weeks max but this time it just keeps coming back and I cant help but think I am going crazy.

For the record, I dont hear or see things that or not there, neither do I have any thoughts that are out of the ordinary, I know exactly what I am doing but I just feel like I am not in sync with my own brain.

Please tell me I am not the only one that has ever felt this way.

Hey Karen,

Yes I have been trying that but the biggest issue I have is the fact I have fallen into a habit of constantly checking how I am feeling and if I dont feel quite right, then I worry which only reinforces the feelings of being spaced out and out of it, and the only reason I got like that was because I have been off work for over a month so there has not been much to do other then self anaylise all the time.

I am feeding the fear and making it worse, I did think the mindfulness was helping but then it got to a point where I tell myself I cant do the mindfullness today because I wont be able to concentrate which then becomes a self fulfilling prophecy of course lol

I have CBT tomorrow so will see how that goes really and I have ordered a book specifically on depersonzliation so I can tackle it head on.

Indeed, distraction coping skills sound like just thing you need while you learn and work hard with the CBT lessons.

Peace
Trina