Brainzap545 said...
Traveler- kind of. But I don't necessarily feel apathetic. In fact I've been pretty emotional lately. But I feel drunk/slightly dizzy and out of it all the time. Is that stil derealizarion?
According to the Mayo site:
"Symptoms of derealization include:
Feelings of being alienated from or unfamiliar with your surroundings, perhaps like you're living in a movie
Feeling emotionally disconnected from people you care about
, as if you were separated by a glass wall
Surroundings that appear distorted, blurry, colorless, two-dimensional or artificial, or a heightened awareness and clarity of your surroundings
Distortions in perception of time, such as recent events feeling like distant past
Distortions of distance and the size and shape of objects
www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depersonalization-derealization-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20033401 This is how I pretty much felt as well - as if nothing was really real. My interactions with other things and people seemed kind of surreal. My understanding is that if you are dealing with depersonalization, it's more of a not knowing how you feel about
things - as if you have never felt those feelings for a thing or person - kind of an emotional numbness. I had that too, but they disappeared at different rates for me, so I got to understand that there was a difference.
I'm an emotional person anyway, and so when I continually felt the depersonalization and derealization, I did a lot of crying as well. I think this was partly because it's scary to not feel any real connections to anything, or anyone. Very disconcerting.