Posted by jen2 on June 15, 2005, at 14:25:08
In reply to feeling unreal.... bizarre, posted by Spriggy on June 14, 2005, at 23:57:52
Hi Spriggy,
> The past few days I'm dealing with anxiety big time and also having those strange feelings of feeling like I'm not real. It's hard to describe but it's a weird floaty feeling (braing fog!), it's not fun. I almost feel like I'm in a tunnel or watching life outside my body.
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> It's as if reality has slipped away and I have to repeatedly tell myself that I am not going crazy.Oh yeah. I can really relate to this. I've got four weeks within which to write my masters' thesis and a bunch of other things going on in my life that are stressful and anxiety-producing. In the past two or three days I've also started to get that unreal feeling again, despite being medicated. It's that feeling like there's a separation between my eyes and my brain, or between my body and my 'self', like there's a slight disjuncture between my self and myself. It's really spooky and bizarre. And at least right now it's only slight - I think the disjuncture increases with the amount of stress.
I just keep telling myself that it's anxiety- and stress-induced and that it will eventually go away. So far that's working. I believe that if I were to dwell on it and worry about it, it would only get worse. So I just keep busy and keep writing, despite the weird brain fog.
> Does anyone know if stress can trigger these feeling of unreality?
Yes, I believe that it's stress that does it, at least in part. I don't know anything about Lupus, but I do know that stress causes this for me.
Jen
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