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Posted 10/4/2011 9:38 PM (GMT 0)
I feel empty.. I constantly feel like i am dreaming. I feel so hopeless. I have gad, depression, and anxiety. I feel like i am never going to get better or that i wont even know what feeling better feels like.I just want to get better and i feel like i am so alone in feeling like this.I also just developed the fear that i am going to snap and go crazy.Everytime i leave my house the feeling of being unreal gets worse. The days i think i am starting to feel better make me think that because i feel better i am actually insane because insane people dont know that they are insane. My concept of time sucks. Things that happened an hour ago feel like they happened five hours ago. I have dreams every night and i always remember every detail, that also freaks me out. I don't know what to do. I am in therapy and i take medicine.

Posted 10/4/2011 10:17 PM (GMT 0)
Hey Carol,

You say when you leave your house, the feeling of being unreal gets worse. What do you mean by unreal?
By the way, you will not go crazy, this is a classic symptom of anxiety!
Posted 10/4/2011 10:40 PM (GMT 0)
The feeling of being in a dream and gets worse.
Posted 10/4/2011 10:51 PM (GMT 0)
I know exactly what you're going through, I believe this is called depersonalization or derealization. I went through this for about four months in 2007. I thought I was losing my mind! I did alot of research and came across an article that really helped me get through it. It said that imagine a bunch of pieces of paper floating by you, if you ignore them, they will keep on flowing. But if you stop and look at one, they will not go away. The hardest thing to do is the best thing to do in this case, which is try to ignore it (I know it's hard, but believe me it will go away).

Feel Better,

Faith
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