Hello. I have become very worried about my mental state in the past months. I feel as if I have been becoming more and more dissociated. It's very hard to explain. My brain feels foggy, fuzzy, and sometimes absent. My frontal lobe, to be exact, feels disconnected to the rest of my brain/fuzzy/hazy/heavy. My vision feels strange, it almost feels as if I'm looking at life through thick glass. I have been having severe anxiety attacks, where I feel as if maybe I am not real or there is an alternate version of myself that has done very bad things. Sometimes I sleep very badly because my body feel extremely on edge and heavy. Sometimes it doesn't feel as if i am doing something, like I will walk into a room and not remember the walk from one room to another. Sometimes i feel as if I am floating or my body is not exactly in reality. I have full body tingles, shaking feeling. Sometimes I feel like everything is happening so fast around me and i am not a part of it. Voices sometimes seem very far away and uncomprehensible. I am very very afraid as I learned today that my cousin is schitzophernic. I am 18 years old and I take 40mg of Prozac for depression and anxiety. Please, please give me some answers. I am very scared. I haven't felt like myself in ages.
Am I developing a dissociative disorder?
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- 3+ months ago by marvelous...
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If you feel like you need serious help, then go to your doctor. Maybe they need to up your medicine or change it. Depression meds can sometimes make you feel even more depressed. I would say try some new activities. Such as jogging, drawing, singing, and so forth. Whenever you have an anxiety attack just take a deep breath in through your nose for four seconds, and exhale slowly through your mouth for eight seconds. Repeat until you feel yourself calming down. Sometimes if you are not getting enough oxygen you can feel lightheaded or voices being distant. It may not be any mental cause. it could be a health problem. I would go to your doctor and discuss your feelings and concerns.