Anyone else feel this way?

It pretty much all started out of the blue. I just woke up one morning and it was like my whole world changed. Everything looked two dimensional, the floor looked elevated when it wasn't, I felt weird and scared for no reason, and I started having panic attacks. This was about six months ago and has just gotten worse. My brain feels foggy, nothing seems real, I will be talking to people just fine, but it feels like someone is controlling me as my mind is not there. Bright lights bother me when they never have before. I feel dizzy, lightheaded, and off balance 24/7. I feel like I'm going to black out at any min. My legs feel like jello, my neck hurts and does a weird popping thing when I swallow. I'm on edge and irritated easily. Driving intensifies it I've noticed. Being outside at all intensifys it. I've been to the ER nine times in one month for constant nausea and vomitting all bllood work was fine. I'm terrified if dying in my sleep from some awful disease no one is finding. I swear something is neurologically wrong with me. I'm only 26. I just want the old me back before all of this started.

Your story is the same as mine word for word. Mine also started 6 months ago and I still battle with it daily but it has lessened IMMENSLEY! I'll try and give you some tips that have really helped me.... I just ighnored every symptom and rolled with the feelings..I didn't isolate myself and instead actually became more sociable because I felt so desperate, however now I'm having alittle trouble learning to be by myself. Magnesium and valerian helped with the palpitations and muscle tension. The fogginess will eventually ease if you learn to just accept it as anxiety and let it go. It may seen like forever but I promise it will get better :) also, distraction is key, keep working and doing what you used to( I know at times this seems beyond impossible). Remember we are here for you and your not alone. I'm only 24 and I feel like I'm 80 sometimes. It will get better! Your in my prayers :)

Hi, Dri40...every now and then I feel the same way, and it's just a symptom of anxiety over a prolonged period of time (it's called derealization).
What I did was tell myself it was just a symptom and would eventually go away if I didn't pay any attention to it, and it did! Also, like Rach03 said, distraction is key. Every time you have one of those negative thoughts, just label it as false information and keep going throughout the day!
Good luck! :D

I went through it and yes, it was one of my least favorite of all my anxiety symptoms. It definitely messes with your mind... :). I know it seems like it came out of the blue, but this type of symptom rarely happens for no reason at all.

When not the side effect of a med...it is usually a symptom, and the way to get over it is not to focus on that symptom, but to focus on the cause of that symptom. And that is usually stress....either acute or chronic. It is usually the result of one event that was just more than you could emotionally handle at that time....or a culmination of events over the past few months and/or years that basically spent every dollar you had in your "coping account" and you are now left with nothing to help you cope with the normal day to day stresses that everybody goes through. So you are left basically a stressed out mess and unfortunately that has some icky side effects like what you are going through.

But the good news is that once you start trying to deal with whatever caused all this stress in the first place, and learn from this and start taking better care of yourself, you can replenish that account and learn to cope again. But remember that the more you focus on the symptoms, the more you set yourself back. Don't analyze how you feel or question it or try to figure out "what it means." It is a giant waste of your time and every time you do that, you are just taking more out of that coping account and right now, you don't have anything to spare. Just give yourself some time and take care of yourself, and this will get better.