(Dec 3, 2024 03:47 AM)DashPHP Wrote:  Cold showers, feed yourself better food.

You’re welcome.

(Dec 3, 2024 03:50 AM)Eran Wrote:  Wish I could neg you an infinite times

(Dec 3, 2024 08:02 AM)Bastille Wrote:  It happened to me a year ago when my burnout started because working too much and also loosing many grants because of my ex-girlfriend (this is the stress part that killed me I guess, because I used to work a lot and I was never impacted by it). I had few moments of depersonalization (especially when I was looking at my hands, like when I was eating), however in parallel I had derealization, which is what you desccribe when you say "nothing feels real".

I had the feeling that I was in a matrix, surrounded by people who are either not real or do not realize they are in the matrix too. I've lost most of my feeling at this moment, no joy, when I had to laugh I laughed but I was faking, when I had to do things outside it was the most disturbing. I was in an "auto-pilot" mode, I walked to the locations I needed to go, I spoke with people like the cashier and so on, but at the same time I was like "what the F am I doing now, why do I talk to these people, there is no meaning to talk with them as they are not real".

Really really weird feeling, then I've left my job, and things started to going back to normal, it lasted around 2 months like that, 24/7. Before that it started 1 month ago, for a short moment during the day like few seconds, during time it became more recurrent, until it was here 24/7 for 2 months.

Did you think about speaking to a psychologist ? it helped me a lot.

(Dec 8, 2024 11:33 PM)Syndicate Wrote:  I often get this when I am overworked and don't get enough time off between my shifts to decompress my day. I hate it and I don't feel like myself at all when this happens to me.

(Dec 9, 2024 03:09 AM)The Pact Wrote:  I think the only times I've felt this in life is when someone I loved or intensely liked rejected or betrayed me in some way.

(Dec 10, 2024 02:58 AM)Eran Wrote:  Well it feels different reading about when someone has this short term only.
It's probably different for both of us. I don't think a psychologist would help in my cause since I constantly have on-going problems and I am kind of stuck in a place since about 1.5-2 years ago. I know deep inside the root of my issue and what would solve it, but I kind of subconsciously self-sabotage myself at the same time.


Now imagine something like this lasting for months.


Yeah, our brain does that to protect itself from stress. Weird.

(Dec 10, 2024 03:06 AM)The Pact Wrote:  Actually I forgot also when my spouse died, I had it for like a lot of the two years after, and I really liked having it compared to the pain of that on the days that I didn't have it.

(Dec 3, 2024 02:55 AM)Eran Wrote:  Did anyone ever have this? Depersonalization caused from weed and other drugs has been discussed a lot, but when it comes to stress caused depersonalization it isn't being talked about enough. You ever had so much stress in your life that you just stop feeling yourself anymore? Nothing feels real, time moves weirdly, sleep schedule is all over the place and you can't control your emotions.

I am currently having this and it sucks because I had this happen last December as well. Thought I would get to enjoy these holidays because I missed out on a lot last year but it seems that won't be the case. :/