HELP I FEEL LIKE EVERYTHING IS UNREAL

[cody81]

I have been dealing with anxiety for a while now I am 16 years old and this mainly started when i was in 7th grade (12 or 13) where i am just nervous randomly but over the past year or so it has just been getting worse and worse, i havnt been to the doctor or anything about it because i just really hate going to the doctor its not a fun place. i havnt always been like this which is why i really want to feel normal again and it seems to just be getting worse with time and it really scares me about a year and a half or so ago i got this feeling that was veeerrry strange like i was walking at school and there were alot of people around me and i suddenly felt as if i wasnt really there like everything was unreal or dreamlike it was very scary and i figured lke whoa i must be sick but then it passed as i got back into class. then one night i got it again when i was hangin out with friends after that i started getting it every so often that was back around 7th grade i am in 9th grade now and just about this last summer it came back and now i feel like this all the time its so horrible and scary! i have learned to deal with it alot now but i just want to feel like myself again sometimes i seriously feel like im going crazy or like i will never feel like myself again i feel like and i worry that i have all these different mental disorders, i constantly look up my symptoms online because i just want to find the answer its so hard to enjoy the great life that i have when i constantly feel like i am in a dream i swear everything feels so unreal, like all the time now most every where i go i feel like the only time i feel normal is whne im sitting in my room, or in my house but i still get it when i get up and go somewhere alot and it really ***** i also noticed that i am getting really bad anxiety in social situations such as talking to people looking people in the eye i feel as if my neck is stiffening and i feel like my head shakes. (not visibly usualy i just feel it.) i get alot of muscle spasms as well, i constantly think that i am very sick like mentaly i am soo afraid of getting serious mental disorders

also my memory feels like it is getting worse now i feel like i cant think of what im trying to say anymore i cant ask quesitons in class because i feel really strange and when i talk alot of times i feel like it is not me, like it doesnt sound like me its so scary i just want to feel normal again is there a cure for this problem that i have im really a normal person i just dont feel normal anymore and it affects me in so many ways. i usualy wont be aware of the dreamlike/unreal feeling untill i remember it or think of it then it seems to come right back and i will just feel like i am not there and everything is just not really happening scary!!!

about my memory it seems like its getting harder to remember things such as peoples names even though i know themreally well usualy when i'm trying to tell somebody something about someone or anything like that. i cant focus at all i have the worst attention span eveer and its just gotten worse in this year or two year period.

I mean i  just dont know i feel like im getting dumber i cant stand up infront of the class anymore i cant read in class casue when i do it doesnt sound like me to me everyone tells me that im ok and its just stupid because i talk about it 24/7 i wanna be with reality again and be able to hangout and enjoy my life without feeling like im just not myself THIS *****! helpp pleeeasse


ALSO i feel dizzy all the time my eyes suck too they seem fuzzy and dizzy/strainedi dont know what to do becaues my eyes feel really messed up all the time not that i cant see good i see fine there just seems to be like tiny dots and i just dont really know how to explain but thats one more thing that reeally affects me is i feel dizzy like all the time now its so annoying!

[Mr_lucky]

exact symptom as guy explained above, but how will you help ?

[Karenzcorner]

Every symptom is uncomfortable, but NOT dangerous....we don't get enough oxygen into the"belley"...every time you fear the symptoms Write down FEAR= False Evidence Appearing Real...it is general anxiety, and you can say SO WHAT!!! with every scary thought.  Act as IF  in spite of.  This is soooooo common as you can see, and it always has its end.  Don't be fooled into avoiding things because of the symptoms.  The more you outsmart them, tell them they won't hold you back, !!  Depersonalization very common during anxiety.  Your adrenal glands secret a stress hormone adrenalin, it won't hurt you, but you can overcome it by positive mind talk.  You're not crazy.  You will most likely help thousands of others with it.  You are, and always will be in control of "it"...don't buy into the lie that your weird, or weak, it always passes, it always will!

[unkown123453212]

if you stop will you ever fully recover?

[unkown123453212]

this makes soo much sense i hope it works

[TheJourneyWithin]

I once went through this hell and found a way out. Some people experience mild, moderate, to severe symptoms. I had unbearable. Every day was a question to myself of how much longer can I actually endure this before there is only one option left. It started mildly where I just assumed I was still high from the day before but I would realize non of my friends would be. Then I quit smoking and still felt slightly high for months. After a year of that it started turning into hell. Of course I have bad anxiety always had so this was all new to me. I couldnt drive or leave my house for years. Felt terrified and physically sick. Nothing looked real to me but my tv. That was my safe haven from the scary "unreal" real world. I couldnt even be a passenger in a car to go to doctors but when I did they made it worse with meds that were garbage. I ended up buying a blood pressure machine to see if that could be it because I felt also deathly sick, turned out I had high blood pressure too but that was from anxiety having this crap for so long.   Hell most doctors didnt even know where to begin with the symptoms I chose to express but pass me along to the next doctor. Even the "best" new age psychiatrists never came across what I had to explain but of course they pretended to know what was wrong with me and prescribe more crap meds that made what I thought couldnt get any worse a friken nightmare. Anyway I found a psychiatrist that reminded me of the show house that only dealt with the most difficult of cases because he knew what he was doing. Was diagnosed with anxiety which I already had known but also Depersonalization and derealism. Klonipin or any benzodiazipine helped to get me out of the stage I call unbearable into moderate. From there I forced myself everyday to try and drive farther, go out longer it took years I finally faced a major fear and drove 2 hours away which was a big step for me even after a year of being able to drive locally with no issues. These forums are horrible for people with real issues because most of the answers are from people with it not from people that got through it and came out on top. I now own many business,s at the age of 22 years old. This started when I was 16. Just dawned on me I made a promise to myself years ago while I was going through this hell all of you are experiencing that if I figured it out and got better I would share how I did with everyone I could because nobody on here could do that for me. Im happy to answer any private messages to my email. ***@**** leave a subject mentioning your issue so I dont think its spam. I can provide help with ways to control it, fight back , and just re assurance that even the worst symptoms can be reversed. Also doctors that can help instead of hinder. Sometimes seeing a doctor can make things worse not better so learn to choose carefully. My names Cameron im proud to say I beat this and I want to help all of you reclaim some normality and peace.

[TheJourneyWithin]

I once went through this hell and found a way out. Some people experience mild, moderate, to severe symptoms. I had unbearable. Every day was a question to myself of how much longer can I actually endure this before there is only one option left. It started mildly where I just assumed I was still high from the day before but I would realize non of my friends would be. Then I quit smoking and still felt slightly high for months. After a year of that it started turning into hell. Of course I have bad anxiety always had so this was all new to me. I couldnt drive or leave my house for years. Felt terrified and physically sick. Nothing looked real to me but my tv. That was my safe haven from the scary "unreal" real world. I couldnt even be a passenger in a car to go to doctors but when I did they made it worse with meds that were garbage. I ended up buying a blood pressure machine to see if that could be it because I felt also deathly sick, turned out I had high blood pressure too but that was from anxiety having this crap for so long.   Hell most doctors didnt even know where to begin with the symptoms I chose to express but pass me along to the next doctor. Even the "best" new age psychiatrists never came across what I had to explain but of course they pretended to know what was wrong with me and prescribe more crap meds that made what I thought couldnt get any worse a friken nightmare. Anyway I found a psychiatrist that reminded me of the show house that only dealt with the most difficult of cases because he knew what he was doing. Was diagnosed with anxiety which I already had known but also Depersonalization and derealism. Klonipin or any benzodiazipine helped to get me out of the stage I call unbearable into moderate. From there I forced myself everyday to try and drive farther, go out longer it took years I finally faced a major fear and drove 2 hours away which was a big step for me even after a year of being able to drive locally with no issues. These forums are horrible for people with real issues because most of the answers are from people with it not from people that got through it and came out on top. I now own many business,s at the age of 22 years old. This started when I was 16. Just dawned on me I made a promise to myself years ago while I was going through this hell all of you are experiencing that if I figured it out and got better I would share how I did with everyone I could because nobody on here could do that for me. Im happy to answer any private messages to my email. ***@**** leave a subject mentioning your issue so I dont think its spam. I can provide help with ways to control it, fight back , and just re assurance that even the worst symptoms can be reversed. Also doctors that can help instead of hinder. Sometimes seeing a doctor can make things worse not better so learn to choose carefully. My names Cameron im proud to say I beat this and I want to help all of you reclaim some normality and peace.