I get a similar feeling some days and it lasts for the whole day. Today is the first since I started to notice my anxiety and had to go sick from work. At the time, I thought it was the working out at the gym I had just started, but being off work for 3 months, it has returned. It's like a light head and a bit dizzy and spaced out...can't concentrate and just want to stare into space.

I think it's just a symptom of the anxiety as i'm sure that we are lacking or getting too much of one chemical in our brains by being down all the time.

Perhaps others could suggest anything else?...

De-personalisation. I also have this all the damn time. Like living in a dream world or something. You forget what its like to feel normal.

Interesting...Do you think that the spaced out feeling is linked to de-personalisation?

I don't want to hijack this post, but i've always had this feeling of living in an alternative life...like watching a film of myself...weird, but like i am in my body but I should be someone else.

I never really linked the spaced out feeling to this.

Crap! now i've got more stuff to analize internally...lol

That sounds exactly how it is stum. Maybe our brains somehow are living in two different paralels, if you know what i mean. After all everything we are is our brains, everything else is flesh and blood, it is the brain that gives us all our thoughts, feelings, emotions, mobility, its a very complex organ, but without it we are nothing, when you think about it, every single person here is really just a brain communicating to another brain. I know, what a headfuck of a subject.

Hi Anna. Mine is usually situation specific, so I try to remove myself from the situation. Doing something I enjoy helps me too. For example, when I get to feeling like that, I start surfing Amazon's website or read a comic book. I sometimes resets me to a more comfortable state. Hugs and prayers.

It is the anxiety, working at a lower level you are experiencing. Though the panic attacks have subsided, what we experience after the attacks is sometimes called anticipatory anxiety. It's that lower level of underlying anxiety that 'keeps us on our toes' or keeps us in a 'sensitized state'. Have you mentioned this to your doctor? I lived just as you described for many years, before trying medication. It helps ALOT. Things I used to obssess over do not bother me at all! Whether it was difficulty swallowing, the eye discomfort, that 'spacy' feeling, etc. Relaxtion techniques/deep breathing are very helpful in this area. You're not alone!