Depression

[Exe Gesis]

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

come to the pub Mr Sexe

$10 pot and parma

(srs)

 

[Exe Gesis]

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[Perth gal]

Maybe one day

Stop being a wimp. Ffs.

 

[Gosha]

Anyone ever experienced derealisation? It's driving me insane

 

[Exe Gesis]

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[LicoriceAllsorts]

Can you explain it in your own words, please?

Realisation that nothing is real

 

[Exe Gesis]

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[LicoriceAllsorts]

Then no. Of course everything is real. That's why it hurts. Sounds like a mechanism to dull the pain.

Everything is real because if it wasn't then it couldn't even be not real. It's there one way or another. Like if you're in a dream it's still a real dream. You can't dream unless you're real. Something can't be not real without there being a real.

 

[Gosha]

Can you explain it in your own words, please?

When you feel completely disconnected from reality, nothing feels "real" and you feel like you're permanently in a dream. Similar to brain fog and is a symptom of anxiety/panic.

 

[Exe Gesis]

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[Perth gal]

When you feel completely disconnected from reality, nothing feels "real" and you feel like you're permanently in a dream. Similar to brain fog and is a symptom of anxiety/panic.

Poor thing .

 

[Gosha]

See above ^

I know everything is real. I just feel out of it due to extreme anxiety.

 

[GreyCrow]

I know everything is real. I just feel out of it due to extreme anxiety.

Do you feel disjointed? ie as if there are 2 of you side by side just that fraction of space and time.

 

[Exe Gesis]

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[Gosha]

Do you feel disjointed? ie as if there are 2 of you side by side just that fraction of space and time.

Nope everything just feels kind of fake. Like I'm not really "there".

 

[Gosha]

Embrace the pain. People always want to shut it off, just want happiness and good. But that's weakling stuff. Good and bad should be equally embraced. Adversity, pain, heartache, etc....they're all good for the soul.

Easier said than done, but I completely agree with you. Fighting it only makes it worse. I am just struggling to accept it now.

 

[Exe Gesis]

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[TheFreshBanana]

Anyone ever experienced derealisation? It's driving me insane

No, I don't think I have.

I think I've gone through depersonalisation though.

When I'm on the brink of a mental breakdown and I'm doing weird shit like shaking, screaming, rocking back and forth, holding myself, etc. Which feels normal, but there's a part of my inside my head that is rational, logical and calm like I am now, looking at myself going "wtf are you doing"?

It's scary. Hope youre okay.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

It's hard. I can't eloquently emphasize it any better. Just takes practice. Like feeling proud of your scars, your less than perfectedness, proud of your fcked-up-edness. I constantly gloat about how fcked up i am in general chat with real life people....good way to embrace it. Because you start to get that message out there, externalized, kinda forced to embrace it....like giving birth to a baby....it becomes a real thing, not just a thought in the mind.

I think it makes you relatable.

One thing I've learnt this year is that we've all got our scars as you put it. We've all got our demons. We've all got our story.

It may not manifest itself in a mental illness.

But I've met people this year who's had problems with their sexuality, their dad's, their mums, losing their virginity to rape, being sexually abused at the age of 6, their family having cancer, being severely bullied in high school, having every medical disease under the sun etc.

I think people are more inclined to tell me these things because I am so transparent about the problems I deal with. I just want my friends to know that I am not ashamed of anything, neither should they, and I'm always willing to listen.

 

[Cotchin 9]

 

[Run n Spread]

Embrace the pain. People always want to shut it off, just want happiness and good. But that's weakling stuff. Good and bad should be equally embraced. Adversity, pain, heartache, etc....they're all good for the soul.

No. Eventually it just grinds you away. I literally have nothing left. Embrace a temporary feeling sure but when it is a relentless barrage and life is one rolling cluster **** you need to change the moment rather than be in it.

 

[Exe Gesis]

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[Run n Spread]

You can't change the moment, ever, because the moment is whats inside you. You are the moment itself. However you feel inside affects how you perceive the external reality. If you're doom and gloom everything around you treats you that way or seems pointless. If you're confident and schweppervesent, opposite.

So it's always about embracing your self and finding a way to love your self.

Agree. But to a degree that assumes you have control of all situations which is not always the case. While yes it is impossible to control everything around you so roll with it.................I am dead set sick of being controlled and subject to the whims of others.

 

[Exe Gesis]

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