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Everything's like a dream

I'm 14 and every single day I feel like it's not real. It started out for maybe 5 minutes every week or so but in the past month it's progressed to every living minute. Everything feels like it's going in slow motion at the time but the days go so quickly. Also my entire body feels completely numb, I got punched in the face today and I didn't feel a thing and this guy does professional amateur boxing. I'm really scared, I have no idea what to do because if I tell my parents they just make things worse and I hate my doctor. It's not anxiety because I'm usually really happy and always smiling. I have no idea what this is and I just want it to end.
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I have been feeling the same but I'm 13, and I been happy lately because I been getting more friends and everything lately so I know it's not depression, last night for 10 minutes it happened and I don't want it to happen again, if it does I'll put it on here but I just feel like it isn't my body like number all over, i can think and do things fine it just doesn't feel right and when it happens it feels almost like i have no emotions. When it happened in just felt like doing anything to know it was real, i kept counting my fingers over and over and everything
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1149753 tn?1280478422
sounds like a depersonalisation syndrome of sone kind.  People also describe the sense that they are floating of that they have out of body sensations like they are warching themselves doing a task.

It can be an isolated disorder in its own ght (or can be grouped with dissociative  and dissociative identity disorders  or even more classical personality disorders.  It is a side effect of many prexcription and illgal drugs too.  
Some of us cope, rathern than expressing anxiety and distress, ut by shutting everything down.  freud would have called it a classic or strong ego defence.

sorry.  all I have off the top of my head!
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1540869 tn?1351214013
You are very young. But this is normal for depression, I'm thinking that this may be what you are going through. I know exactly how your feeling i started going through it when i was 19 a little bit older , but i still feel the same exact way. What happens is you start doing day to day things, and eventually you stop noticing it AS MUCH. But it is very very very hard, every minute you feel why me? I still feel that way. I know it's called depersonalization disorder, or maybe just depression, but both can make you feel this way. I would start doing things to make yourself snap out of it a little , make sure you eat right, try to read, journal, hit a pillow, touch things (like an edge of a dresser)  because that makes it real, drink a lot of water, and try to ignore it the best you can, the more attention you give it the worse it will get. But if it gets worse i would tell your parents. xoxo
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