The simple realization that helped with my derealization

I’ve been struggling with depersonalization and derealization for almost a year. It started after a string of bad panic attacks. It’s very difficult to explain what I went through, but I’ll do my best.

Basically being alive felt weird. I couldn’t explain who I was, how I made sense of the world, and where my thoughts came from. So it felt like I didn’t have control. I was constantly questioning everything and nothing made sense.

But then I realized something: we’re WIRED for life to feel normal to us. When you REALLY think about life it seems so insane and so uncontrollable, but somehow we intuitively get it. Because we’re given the tools to make sense of everything on a deeper level, beyond rationality.

Has anyone else had this same experience?

Do you mean something like a "God thing"? helps us make sense of the world? Like God created the world and ppl, so they mesh or something? I didn't understand what you meant, but my once wonderful brain has been terrible the past year with this anxiety disorder. My depersonalization has improved with my SSRI med. And so has the anxiety. I am much calmer these days. I hate feeling out of control though! Just had another thought. Do you feel like since we basically can't control anything around us anyway, we 'depersonalize' as an escape from the feeling of responsibility for being in control? Maybe you don't get what I mean either.

I think that cause of depersonalization/derealization is a mechanic thing in brain that response to stressful situations and trying to get out, brain trying to protect itself from harmful reality and causing derealization.

I suffer from anxiety disorder and derealization/depersonalization and I've also had a panic attack few times. First time I thought it was a heart attack and I going to die, it's qouite disturbing situation. I had panic attack that last almost an hour or maybe even two hours.

After a lot of researching I figure out that was a panic attack that went into disorder state and I visit my doctor and he prescribed to me benziodiazepams and I felt better, but when effects of benziodiazepams passed I again felt panic and avoided public places. This got me into phase to get dose higher and I can't functioned without them.

It was hell without benziodiazepams, I felt cramps in my stomach and fear and sense of horror in my head. I visit specialist and he prescribed me a clonazepim to get rid of benziodiazepams. I felt better again, not great, not even good, only not critical.

But soon came derealization, most disturbing simptom, and I felt like I'm going to lose my mind. My heart starts pounding and I have increased level of anxiety, also social anxiety.

I suffer from depression since high school, sometimes depression was low sometimes high, depending on activities and enviroment. But when I something doing, I feel better, my thoughts are more directed to activity than self-awareness.

Well, the root cause of depression and anxiety is self awareness, when we absorbe ourselves to much. Not miss to mention that low self confidence is generator to anxiety and depression and others disorders that cames into it.

We must be like children, our eyes must be open to outer world not to inner world. Anxiety is fear based disorders, we struggling with our emotions and our thoughts that fear caused them. We constantly think about our felling and thought and just get worse.

Best cure is time. Time will heal our disorders, but only if we engage in some kind of activities that will turn off our self awareness.

I still struggling with my emotions, anxiety and depression. I think to much deep, think too much about meaning of life and cause of life, about God etc. It's cause of my depression and anxiety that detached me from outer world and society and develop social phobia.

We must be strong, we must faced our fear and not trying do defeat the fear, we will not win. Let time do it's job.