Feeling like I'm losing my mind again (Worse than ever)

Please somebody help me understand what is going on. I had issues on and off.....feeling like I was losing my mind. Then I was perfectly fine with it (knowing about the others....etc.)

Now all of a sudden......I feel as if I'm losing my mind worse than ever. I don't understand why. I know there's no way I could be making everything up. Way too much evidence that I'm not. Still though.....I feel as if I'm going way beyond insane. It's tearing me apart. I can't shake that feeling.

How do I make it stop? By that....I mean the terrible feeling of feeling insane. If you ask me though....I think it's the "new" guy who is feeling this.....not me. Still though......It's tearing me apart.

I feel all alone with my problems lately too. I just don't know why. Everything seems so chaotic. This mess is even worse than the mess we've had with the "forbidden area" before. UGH! Even worse than the worst mess we've encountered yet. I just don't know what to do.

We're still mourning. It was the start of this wave of issues lately. It seems unrelenting. Everything is a major mess.....and things seem to keep getting worse. UGH!

do you think it might be time to get some more help, like a crisis intervention?
because it kind of sounds like there is more than one problem to address and it might just be too much to do that all by yourself.

birdsong87 wrote:do you think it might be time to get some more help, like a crisis intervention?
because it kind of sounds like there is more than one problem to address and it might just be too much to do that all by yourself.

Thank you for your reply! I greatly appreciate it!

That's a good idea....but We feel we can't do that. Shadow hates hospitals with a passion....so does a bunch of the others (due to what happened before...multiple times). We are afraid they won't understand. We feel they'll think we are crazy and put us in the "mental ward". We feel we won't ever get out this time. We were put in the "mental" hospital many years ago (when we were in elementary school).....and it was extremely traumatic. We don't want to risk going back. Also we are safe. For now....all the bad stuff just seems to be happening on the inside.

We do have a therapist.....but that's not much help.

Any chance to work in an extra appointment with the T? Maybe they have a cancellation...

SOHank wrote:Any chance to work in an extra appointment with the T? Maybe they have a cancellation...

That might work. Thanks for the idea.

I'm so sorry things are rough. just a quick check on the basics....

any meds could be doing it? even OTC stuff like allergy meds or decongestants. new multi vitamin, etc.

drinking water and eating healthy foods regularly?

showering, sleeping, exercising, sticking to a schedule?

we and many on the forum have to learn and practice taking care of ourselves and need reminders from time. sometimes when you dont know what to do, just remembering to love and take good physical care of yourself can make a big difference.

Hi. You sound like me (Georgia). I have lots of different qualities however a inconvenient one is when I panic. Something triggers me and then I have emotional flashbacks. I run around scared as if things that happened in the past are happening now, except they're not.

I noticed that you mentioned an intense feeling of losing touch with reality, except you didn't mention specifics as to what's making you feel this way.

Is it possible that these moments are emotional flashbacks of times you were made to feel 'crazy'?

If so, I use grounding techniques to reconnect with reality. (smelling, touching, listening to odd sounds. That type of thing)

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Hi. You sound like me (Georgia). I have lots of different qualities however a inconvenient one is when I panic. Something triggers me and then I have emotional flashbacks. I run around scared as if things that happened in the past are happening now, except they're not.

I noticed that you mentioned an intense feeling of losing touch with reality, except you didn't mention specifics as to what's making you feel this way.

Is it possible that these moments are emotional flashbacks of times you were made to feel 'crazy'?

If so, I use grounding techniques to reconnect with reality. (smelling, touching, listening to odd sounds. That type of thing)

Thanks y'all for the advice! It's greatly appreciated! We're not 100% positive regarding what's causing her to feel that way- but- maybe it does have something to do with our past. We actually never considered that before- for some reason.