Begining to think these feeling aren't anxiety?
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Begining to think these feeling aren't anxiety?
Since late last Thursday night I have been in a hazy fog. I feel disconnected from everyone and everything I feel like I am not real and that I'm going to implode any second. I'm not having a anxiety attack or panic attack but that's the feeling 24/7 and then on top of that there is under lying anxiety every ten minutes. I feel delusional, and keep thinking strange thoughts and asking my self strange questions. I have never had this last this long! I can't get out of the hazy cloudy anxiety filled fog in my head. I just want peace guys! I haven't felt happy or "normal" in so long!!!!! I'm so sick of this ****!!!!! These feelings are making me think this is going to be how it is for ever. A dulled out anxiety filled mind. I just don't know what to do anymore! I'm getting desperate!!
Two things: First, if you are feeling unsafe, or like these feelings are going to lead you to making dangerous decisions, go to the emergency room immediately. Second, I had these feelings as well in early sobriety, but not to the extent that you are experiencing them. The timeline for returning to "normal," is different for everyone. Are you sleeping? Of not, this might be a contributing factor. But by all means, pay attention to what you are feeling, and seek help if you need it.
You just started an anti anxiety med yesterday, it's most likely going to take quite a bit longer than 24 hours to start seeing results. SSRIs affect all people differently and there are potential side effects so make sure you let your doc know what's going on.
Hi FLA
if you look up alcohol withdrawal kindling you'll see that the withdrawal effects can get worse over time...
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...lly-again.html
fuzzy headedness, anxiety, sense of dread, confusion...they can all be withdrawal symptoms and they can last for days.. to weeks, and unfortunately sometimes months.
It will NOT be forever tho, I promise
None of us are doctors tho - there's no way for us to diagnose whether this is withdrawal stuff or something else.
If you're finding it debilitating, please do see a Dr - and be honest about your past drinking cpd the more info you can give the more they can help
D
ps Scott is right that any new med will take a little time to bed in.
if you look up alcohol withdrawal kindling you'll see that the withdrawal effects can get worse over time...
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...lly-again.html
fuzzy headedness, anxiety, sense of dread, confusion...they can all be withdrawal symptoms and they can last for days.. to weeks, and unfortunately sometimes months.
It will NOT be forever tho, I promise
None of us are doctors tho - there's no way for us to diagnose whether this is withdrawal stuff or something else.
If you're finding it debilitating, please do see a Dr - and be honest about your past drinking cpd the more info you can give the more they can help
D
ps Scott is right that any new med will take a little time to bed in.
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Hi FLA
if you look up alcohol withdrawal kindling you'll see that the withdrawal effects can get worse over time...
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...lly-again.html
fuzzy headedness, anxiety, sense of dread, confusion...they can all be withdrawal symptoms and they can last for days.. to weeks, and unfortunately sometimes months.
It will NOT be forever tho, I promise
None of us are doctors tho - there's no way for us to diagnose whether this is withdrawal stuff or something else.
If you're finding it debilitating, please do see a Dr - and be honest about your past drinking cpd the more info you can give the more they can help
D
ps Scott is right that any new med will take a little time to bed in.
if you look up alcohol withdrawal kindling you'll see that the withdrawal effects can get worse over time...
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...lly-again.html
fuzzy headedness, anxiety, sense of dread, confusion...they can all be withdrawal symptoms and they can last for days.. to weeks, and unfortunately sometimes months.
It will NOT be forever tho, I promise
None of us are doctors tho - there's no way for us to diagnose whether this is withdrawal stuff or something else.
If you're finding it debilitating, please do see a Dr - and be honest about your past drinking cpd the more info you can give the more they can help
D
ps Scott is right that any new med will take a little time to bed in.
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You need to check in with the doctor who prescribes your medication.
Anxiety is a state of being, a condition, not a feeling. Nervousness, which is a feeling, typically accompanies anxiety, but is not the only symptom. A sense of things around you, our you yourself, not feeling quite real can be symptomatic of either chronic or severe anxiety, and often comes with panic disorder. As Scott commented, what you're experiencing could also be related to your new meds, or another medical or psychiatric condition. Only your doctor can know what's going on.
Anxiety is a state of being, a condition, not a feeling. Nervousness, which is a feeling, typically accompanies anxiety, but is not the only symptom. A sense of things around you, our you yourself, not feeling quite real can be symptomatic of either chronic or severe anxiety, and often comes with panic disorder. As Scott commented, what you're experiencing could also be related to your new meds, or another medical or psychiatric condition. Only your doctor can know what's going on.
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Hi FLA
if you look up alcohol withdrawal kindling you'll see that the withdrawal effects can get worse over time...
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...lly-again.html
fuzzy headedness, anxiety, sense of dread, confusion...they can all be withdrawal symptoms and they can last for days.. to weeks, and unfortunately sometimes months.
It will NOT be forever tho, I promise
None of us are doctors tho - there's no way for us to diagnose whether this is withdrawal stuff or something else.
If you're finding it debilitating, please do see a Dr - and be honest about your past drinking cpd the more info you can give the more they can help
D
ps Scott is right that any new med will take a little time to bed in.
if you look up alcohol withdrawal kindling you'll see that the withdrawal effects can get worse over time...
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...lly-again.html
fuzzy headedness, anxiety, sense of dread, confusion...they can all be withdrawal symptoms and they can last for days.. to weeks, and unfortunately sometimes months.
It will NOT be forever tho, I promise
None of us are doctors tho - there's no way for us to diagnose whether this is withdrawal stuff or something else.
If you're finding it debilitating, please do see a Dr - and be honest about your past drinking cpd the more info you can give the more they can help
D
ps Scott is right that any new med will take a little time to bed in.
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You need to check in with the doctor who prescribes your medication.
Anxiety is a state of being, a condition, not a feeling. Nervousness, which is a feeling, typically accompanies anxiety, but is not the only symptom. A sense of things around you, our you yourself, not feeling quite real can be symptomatic of either chronic or severe anxiety, and often comes with panic disorder. As Scott commented, what you're experiencing could also be related to your new meds, or another medical or psychiatric condition. Only your doctor can know what's going on.
Anxiety is a state of being, a condition, not a feeling. Nervousness, which is a feeling, typically accompanies anxiety, but is not the only symptom. A sense of things around you, our you yourself, not feeling quite real can be symptomatic of either chronic or severe anxiety, and often comes with panic disorder. As Scott commented, what you're experiencing could also be related to your new meds, or another medical or psychiatric condition. Only your doctor can know what's going on.
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Yes I felt like this before the meds. First day I took them I felt slightly better now I'm way back down where I was. I just don't feel like my self and super disconnected from everything. Just went to the local lake to take a walk and get some air and there is like 200 people here playing Pokemon..... Wtf. Walk helped a little bit still feel completely ****** and out of whack tho.
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But the whole reason I'm on the meds is because of the way I'm feeling I haven't noticed any side effects other than delayed sex stuff. But that could also be just because I'm disconnected and have all this anxiety. It's Zoloft as well, a pretty easy going SSRI. My dads on it and has helped him a lot the past 20 years he's been taking it for anxiety. I was ok two weeks ago, aside from the drinking, mentally I wasn't this bad.
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Your Dr. should have the Millenium GT test available to you. They take a swab of saliva and send the kit to a lab. You will get back a loooong list of drugs.....which ones you are compatible with and which you aren't. I couldn't tolerate Celexa so my Dr. took me off of it. Later the test showed it's not for my system.
If you don't feel you're a candidate for kindling, thats ok - no skin off my nose, just trying to help
I didn't know you were on new meds in my initial post.
I always follow a latest change flowchart if there's something new developing or something wrong. It's just common sense
See your Dr by all means, but I'd hope it's just the new meds bedding in
D
I didn't know you were on new meds in my initial post.
I always follow a latest change flowchart if there's something new developing or something wrong. It's just common sense
See your Dr by all means, but I'd hope it's just the new meds bedding in
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Since late last Thursday night I have been in a hazy fog. I feel disconnected from everyone and everything I feel like I am not real and that I'm going to implode any second. I'm not having a anxiety attack or panic attack but that's the feeling 24/7 and then on top of that there is under lying anxiety every ten minutes. I feel delusional, and keep thinking strange thoughts and asking my self strange questions. I have never had this last this long! I can't get out of the hazy cloudy anxiety filled fog in my head. I just want peace guys! I haven't felt happy or "normal" in so long!!!!! I'm so sick of this ****!!!!! These feelings are making me think this is going to be how it is for ever. A dulled out anxiety filled mind. I just don't know what to do anymore! I'm getting desperate!!
Or Derealisation, the sensation that the world aroung you doesn't feel real, are dissociative disorders.
They can be brought on by extreme stress and anxiety.
I've had it before when I was younger. Along with all the other strange thoughts you describe.
It's a horrible feeling, and frightning if you don't know whats happening.
Luckily, once the stress and depression are under control, it goes away.
If you Google dissociative disorders, you should be able to find a good explaination about it.
It won't last forever, and will probably recede once the anti-depressants kick in.
Don't worry, all the strange thoughts and feelings you are having, will go away once the anxiety and depression are brought under control
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Your Dr. should have the Millenium GT test available to you. They take a swab of saliva and send the kit to a lab. You will get back a loooong list of drugs.....which ones you are compatible with and which you aren't. I couldn't tolerate Celexa so my Dr. took me off of it. Later the test showed it's not for my system.
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Depersonalisation, the sensation that you don't feel real.
Or Derealisation, the sensation that the world aroung you doesn't feel real, are dissociative disorders.
They can be brought on by extreme stress and anxiety.
I've had it before when I was younger. Along with all the other strange thoughts you describe.
It's a horrible feeling, and frightning if you don't know whats happening.
Luckily, once the stress and depression are under control, it goes away.
If you Google dissociative disorders, you should be able to find a good explaination about it.
It won't last forever, and will probably recede once the anti-depressants kick in.
Don't worry, all the strange thoughts and feelings you are having, will go away once the anxiety and depression are brought under control
Or Derealisation, the sensation that the world aroung you doesn't feel real, are dissociative disorders.
They can be brought on by extreme stress and anxiety.
I've had it before when I was younger. Along with all the other strange thoughts you describe.
It's a horrible feeling, and frightning if you don't know whats happening.
Luckily, once the stress and depression are under control, it goes away.
If you Google dissociative disorders, you should be able to find a good explaination about it.
It won't last forever, and will probably recede once the anti-depressants kick in.
Don't worry, all the strange thoughts and feelings you are having, will go away once the anxiety and depression are brought under control
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Don't worry, it will end.
It is hard, walking around with this surreal feel to everything and to yourself and trying to pretend everything is normal.
And it's a hard sensation to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it.
The time I had it, I had to have a peice of paper with my name and address written on it, incase I forgot who I was, or where I lived.
It felt to me like I was disappearing from the real world, or that it would disappear from me.
Strangest, most disturbing thing, not nice to have at all!
The good news is, you are not going mad, and it will end.
Take care
It is hard, walking around with this surreal feel to everything and to yourself and trying to pretend everything is normal.
And it's a hard sensation to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it.
The time I had it, I had to have a peice of paper with my name and address written on it, incase I forgot who I was, or where I lived.
It felt to me like I was disappearing from the real world, or that it would disappear from me.
Strangest, most disturbing thing, not nice to have at all!
The good news is, you are not going mad, and it will end.
Take care
I just don't feel like my self. And I was never "dependent" on alcohol, I went out a few nights a week and drank often but a lot of times skipped a week or two of no drinking with no issues. I do not think this is alcohol withdrawal. I have seen the doctor three times this week. I just don't even know what I'm doing anymore it's extremely frustrating to live like this and I know my girl friend has to be getting tired of me and me "feelings" and how I'm acting so dull and distant lately. I'm very open with my doctor and girlfriend etc I don't hide anything, I just want to be my self again.
I am full of gratitude for the gifts that sobriety have given me, and the new Me that I am able to be. For a lot of months I was worried that my old me was disappearing and I too would disappear altogether. But it wasn't a process of losing the old self. It was a process of removing all the crap, and finding the good underneath. I heard someone describe it as being like a shiny magnet that is covered in crap after being dragged across the junkyard of life. Recovery is a process of not picking up any more crap, and slowly removing all the stuff that weighs us down. As well as the crap, you may well find some treasure in there.
Good luck on your journey of recovery. I wish you all the best.
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