Hi everyone, I just signed up to this forum recently and would like some advice on curing or helping my terrible feelings of depersonalization.
My Story-
For the past month I have felt very foggy/trance like and have had moments in my day were I feel so intensely disconnected from myself/reality that I forget that I am alive and that my surroundings are real, it is very terrifying and makes me feel like I am going insane. The thing is I have had these feelings before throughout my life but only for an hour out of a day rarely and I never knew what it was but I never worried because I knew it would go away the next day. The reason I am here on this forum now is because one of these episodes happened on a boring day and has since yet to go away. On the third day of feeling like this I got very panicky and worried, so I started to research online and came across depersonalization/derealization and realized it fit my symptoms perfectly. I feel like I am in a dream all day and like I am watching a first person viewed movie that I can't wake up from. I can't concentrate and my perception of time is completely off it is very scary and horrible. I wish that I could turn off this autopilot mode and join the world of the living again. I think my depression and anxiety brought this on and now am on ten mgs of prozac a day, I started a week ago and if anything it has made the dreamlike feelings worse. My last hope is for the pills to eventually kick in, if anyone else has had any success with prozac or any other medications I would like to hear about it. I know alot of people online say that there is no "miracle" cure but I can't help but still have that hope because I have had two instances were I did snap out of it for a couple of minutes randomly and it was as heavenly and good as everyone who has had these feelings before imagines, but just as I start to enjoy the feeling of being normal again it slowly fades away in a couple of minutes like a fog getting thicker. I hope to feel better by this summer so I can enjoy a couple of trips I have planned. I am sorry for making this so long, if anyone has any advice or knows if prozac or any other medication works it would be really appreciated. I just don't know what to do anymore I absolutely can't take it anymore. I hate this feeling.