Hi there, I'm a 22 year old female who was diagnosed with anxiety and depression at age 16. It has been up and down but this past month a huge panic attack (about the fear or death and meaning of life) sent me into a spiral. I ended up in the psychiatric ward in my town to see a psychiatrist ASAP, my anxiety and depression made me unable to go about my daily life. She put me on pills I was on before that helped a lot. So I have been on them for about 3 weeks. Pristiq 100mg.
Anyways this episode of my anxiety and depression has made me feel like I never have before. I have this false sense of reality. My body and mind feels foreign and I feel fake. It's so hard to explain and that's another reason I get so frustrated. When I talk or move sometimes I feel it's not me? Like I think about why I move or talk. I over analyze everything and I feel like I'm watching my life through a screen sometimes. I'm terrified that I'm going crazy. It's gotten to the point where living normal life doesn't feel normal at all. I'll be sitting there talking or doing something and my thoughts will go to 'you are a human, thinking, we are all humans, we will die one day' and it's terrifying.
I had never lived my life thinking about that stuff before and now it consumes me to the point where I can't recognize myself fully and people around me. I know everything Is real and this is my life and stuff.
I'm sorry this is so confusing I'm just trying to explain.
I want it to stop, I used to have episodes of depression or anxiety and it was so hard but nothing like this.
This feels like my whole world has changed and it's all in my own head and I can't escape.
I can't see my psychiatrist for another 10 days she is on holiday.
I don't know what to do and if this is normal and if it will go away.
I dread the days ahead.
Side note: I read something called depersonalization, it sounded familiar to what I'm feeling.
Someone please help, is this okay to feel? Am I going insane? Will it ever stop?