racing thoughts and depersonalization

[taraak]

sometimes my anxiety gets me, and I start seeing people as not real.  my mind CONSTANTLY thinks of how they are real.  trying to find out why, or how they are real and what they are. very soon it becomes a cluttered mess in the back of my mind.  does this sound familiar to anyone?  constantly thinking about something, trying to figure people out.  is that "racing thoughts"?  are racing thoughts the same as obsessive thoughts?  I have OCD, also.

[jimgreg]

a racing thought is seriouses  of the same thoughts that  can cause you to be up or way down..mostly happens when your deppressed.l. as cj29 said  this plays the role in the obbseishons..ocd....can be sevre at times to trigger sevre anxtys..the ones that overcome your thought process..the trying to figre people out is i the ocd as well....

[cj29]

Quite often, in my experience with anxiety, it can be a very surreal experience.  We sometimes go through things as if we were in a fog.  In my opinion, our minds are so busy we can definitely forget which way is up.  

Living with OCD can really be a challenge, but if you understand it and are willing to confront it then it is very manageable in my opinion.  Are you going through talk therapy right now?  For me, this really helped put some order back in my life and take a step by step approach to confronting and dealing with it...keep us posted!