I really need to know what this is anxiety/panic atacks or depersonalization disorder i need help please??
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You keep asking the same question!! STOP!! It's not the marijuana that started this. You have anxiety and panic attacks, that's what your doctor told you! During a panic attack you can feel unreal.
See a counselor, only they can tell you exactly what is wrong.
To treat depersonalization disorder see this link: http://www.depression-guide.com/deperson...
please stop smoking pot..some people can cope better than otheres on this stuff..i have a a site thats excellent..please give it a try to put an end to all your anxiety suffereing...because thats what is it..once you learn how to treat it..youll be fine..but no more pot..or you may never get better ..one more thing is the if you have stopped smoking then its most likley out of your system now..so stop worrying about that part..anxiety cannot not harm you or anyone.its a frightened state of mind thats all..your not crazy..anxiety is scarey..but we make it worse when we have a fear of it..its only fear keeping your anxiety alive please read this site.
Do not worry, the weed did not cause this. You are 15 and you have so many hormones raging through your body and teens are under so much social presure. Take a breath. You do need to go to the doctor and tell them exactly how much you are having attacks. Be honest. They could put you on something that will stablize you a bit. It would probably not hurt to talk to a counslor. Find a church with a great youth program and get involved, that will help more than you know and will be a blast.
You are probably having what are called 'flashbacks'. My friends son got a hold of some bad weed. He needed to see a psychologist, and was in counselling for about 6 months. Next time you start feeling 'weird' try taking in about 4 deep breaths in thru your nose and out thru your mouth. Hopefully this will help calm you down. Tell your parents you want some counselling, even if they don't know about the weed. Just say you're feeling very anxious and depressed, tell them about the weed if they don't know about it.
Depersonalization Disorder is a Dissociative Disorder and it's characterized by a profound sense of detachment that makes you feel as though you're going through the motions of life, but not really living the experience. People describe it as feeling like they are in a fog, or almost as though they are in a dream and there's often a sense of unreality about things (derealization), although you consciously know what's real, it just doesn't feel that way. Sometimes there are alterations in your sense of space (things appear smaller or further away) or your sense of time (things seem to be speeded up or slowed down) or you may see people talking but not really hear or know what they are saying for brief moments, like in the song "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd which is quite a poetic description of one presentation of the experience and dissociation generally.
Depersonalization can exist alone or as part of another disorder, most notably Panic Disorder and PTSD, but it may also be connected with depression, especially in milder form where people describe feeling numb or like their emotions are blunted or flat lined. However, actual depersonalization is usually more extreme and represents a significant sense of detachment from oneself more than just the chronic numbness that often accompanies depression.
It is also has a relationship to “trance” and can be brought on by significant periods of sleep deprivation or other “trance-inducing” activities that require extreme and prolonged focus and concentration, like addicting computer games or monotonous and routine activity, both of which I believe are related. “Trance-inducing activity” leads to an altered state where there is reduced sensitivity to your surroundings. (Just think of "highway hypnosis"-this is pretty common and normal, but lasts briefly, though it shares many of the same features)
There's a good chance that Depersonalization will resolve on its own without intervention, particularly if it’s brief and hasn’t become habitual. However, a longer duration suggests that treatment aimed at helping you reconnect with yourself may be beneficial. Often times, depersonalization becomes a chronic way of coping with overwhelmingly uncomfortable or painful feelings and disconnecting from the experience of them, hence its frequent occurrence in response to trauma. Depersonalization is a frequent and common symptom associated with PTSD and also extreme anxiety and functions as a defense against the intense feelings people experience during abuse, life-threatening circumstances and extreme anxiety and panic and protects a person from becoming completely overwhelmed. People often "trance out" when under stress, and it functions to decrease their awareness of and sensitivity to distressing experiences, like the "freeze" response seen in trauma victims. (Just think of the teenager who "tunes out" when a parent or other person is berating them with criticism-they hear it, but don't really react to it). Therapy can be especially helpful if there is a history of emotional abuse that depersonalization helps you escape as it can become a familiar and almost automatic process that gets triggered by emotional arousal. In that way, it becomes a disorder as it serves to keep a person detached from their own experiences and disconnected from their sense of self. Therapy aims at making this a less automatic process and helping people reconnect to their emotions, their body and their sense of self and learning other ways to cope and self-soothe so that dissociation is no longer a “knee-jerk” reaction to emotional triggers.
Things you can do involve grounding yourself in various ways. "Mindfulness" is excellent and is simply being in the moment and concentrating on all the sensations you are aware of in order to ground you both in the present and in your body (Eg: doing the dishes: concentrate on the temperature of the water, the smell of the dish detergent, the feel of the glass or ceramic you're holding, notice the soap bubbles, etc.) It can break the "trance" effect when you are experiencing depersonalization. Another tip is to keep your eyes moving-frequently when we are stressed and "freeze" our gaze becomes fixed, or locked, and this induces the hypnotic "trance" state. Keep your eyes moving and avoid becoming transfixed or staring at a single object. Using a journal or meditative practices that seek to connect you with yourself, being in touch with your feelings and even your physical state, as well as your emotional self, can help reconnect you and ground you. Deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation is excellent as it treats both the disconnectedness as well as being the single most effective technique for stopping a panic attack. Hope this helps, but please seek out a therapist who can assist you further if you suffer from continued panic and depersonalization.
Hope this helps.
Let me try to answer 'when I realize that I'm feeling unreal or floaty I get freaked out and I don't know what to do'. The upper brains erases a belief that is not true with life and a waste product is produced. There is no pain at this point as the expectation is not about love and sex. The chemicals produced overload the fluid around the lower brain which automatically controls your balance, your heart rate, your temperature, your zero mood and other auto systems of life. Like a cow has no upper brains only the lower the size of an apple and it cant think. The spinal fluids can be discharging these chemicals slowly into the blood but there is no kidney on the fluid. There are some people skilled in using other chemicals made by the brain to cancel the depression chemicals. The female of course has many more chemicals than the male has to learn about. Also medical and street drugs all get into the act of psychotropic chemical control. I would suggest the simple endorphins made by sunshine and exercise. Summer is a good time to get well. I would also suggest a geographic cure of emotional stresses. If you can afford it, it costs less that doctors in the long run. There is a whole other system called the body aura and its management but that is too complex for this time.
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