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Feeling odd

Hi,

   I have a few questions about depression. First i would like to say that i have suffered from panic attacks and anxiety since July 7 2008. Recently i have been feeling really strange, places that are familiar to me seem strange, and i question my sanity when i have these thoughts. I even feel strange in my own body from time to time, it feels like my memory is going and the best way to describe it is, it feels like my brain is failing. My question is, could all of this be depression and anxiety? Also i have been experiencing tightness in my throat and a feeling that i need to cough along with a weird heartbeat. I have had an ecg, chest x-ray, and multiple blood tests. Im only 23 years old and i had to quit my job of 5 years because of this, i have no insurance and i dont know what to do. ANY advise will be helpful. Thanks
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993025 tn?1284886091
My depression is the root cause and my anxiety is the alarm system in my body thats telling me.."hey something is wrong here, you are not feeling like you"hence it blows through the roof, the anxiety is heightened so you are ultra sensitive to what you are sorrounded by. My anxiety wont go away until I feel like ME again, the person that I recognize, thats the best way I can describe it..
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i was on paxil for about 3-4 months. 1)  i didnt like the way it made me feel. 2) i quit my job and had no insurance to go back to the docs.

Also, yes i did have a chance to seek counseling, i really dont know why i didnt accept.
  So i guess my next question is, how much does therapy cost?
And possibly, could depression lead to anxiety and panic? i lost my Father Oct. 2007, and i had no problems with anxiety and panic until July 2008.
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Hi,

First thing to say is it seems you have had a barrage of physical tests and they have all shown nothing abnormal. Correct?

So you have been seeing a doctor and possibly some specialists. Correct?

So what did they say? What have they diagnosed? Anything?

I cannot imagine any decent doctor seeing someone with what you describe and not prescribing meds. As I'm confident they would have wanted to it seems you believe you are the first who can beat this stuff with no help. Correct?

Not going well so far is it, this non treatment approach?

Are you having talk therapy? Seeing a counsellor? Or just suffering away hoping it'll disappear? After at least a year of it the truth is it's going to get worse, not better as you are doing nothing about treatment.

Why the resistance to meds? They don't cure these problems but they certainly can and do relieve the symptoms so you can feel human again for a while and maybe see what's the cause of it. Or at least have productive talk therapy that will lead to the cause and thus to resolving it.

But maybe you already know the cause(es) and don't know what to do. The anser is to go with the doc's advice. You don't have to have meds and you could just ask to be referred to someone who can talk you through this stuff. But why would you want to keep feeling this stuff when it can be controlled.

You are talking about anxiety and panic rather than depression and meds for that work a whole lot better than the depression ones.

I should add that I am firmly of the view that anxiety and panic are the mother of depression. They start and it develops into depression.

Go see the doc and get real help. Not ego driven resistance. You ned help from outside yourself, get it. It would be good too if you were honest with at least yourself and your doctor about what you are doing. Any street drugs? Dope? E? How often do you drink. Questions for you to tell your doc the answer to, not us.
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Actually i was drinking pretty often, until one night i drank a bunch and i felt as if i was losing my memory, my ability to function and everything felt weird. i have been sober for almost 2 weeks, and things still seem off.
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If it's not that bad, you may be able to stick it out without meds.

On the other hand if it gets real bad then you will take anything "and I seriously mean anything" to make it stop.
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yeah i guess it kinda feels like that... to me it seems like i have a deja vu feeling also. its kind of a weird feeling throughout most of the day..but then again things seem unfamiliar also. Thanks for all of the replies. Im trying to tough it out without meds, but i dont know how much more i can take
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You would be supprised to know just how unusual the symptoms of Major depression and anxiety dissorder can get. When the condition gets really bad then many VERY bizarr symptoms can occur.

I had the same odd sensations as you had when my condition first started showing signs at the age of 22. I felt very weird all the time, it was almost like my visual prespective had actually been altered. The world areound me felt different and my I felt a strange sence of darkness and confusion that made the world take on a different feel. Almost like I was not connected in a normal way.

I guess the closest I can come to describing it is like a bad LSD trip that never ends.

Frankly it scared the **** out of me. It got so bad that I had figured I was going insane so I had decided to kill myself.

Turns out I wasn't going insane, rather I was suffering from very severe depression.

So do you mean it feels like that? If so then yup, you have depressive dissorder combined with anxiety dissorder.
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993025 tn?1284886091
Hi
Read my posting oN the depression forum labeled Depersonalization...It will help give you insight as to what you are feeling, Im going through the same thing..you are not going crazy, its a sub side effect of anxiety/depression...please read it!
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874521 tn?1424116797
hi I am sorry for you're troubles.........you need to discuss this all with you're doctor preferably a psychiatrist to get a proper diagnosis, but to me it sure sounds as though you are having PANIC ATTACKS, throat tightens and heart will excellerate and you can become very disoriented....
check out the ANXIETY COMMUNITY maybe you will find more help there, good luck.
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I forgot to mention that the test were almost a year ago....is it possible that my heart was affected by the anxiety??
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