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GSletstalk
GSletstalk

Hi I'm here about a problem my boyfriend is having with his anxiety and OCD as it relates to feelings of disorientation.  He describes it happening when he's driving, walking through our house or passing the ketchup :( he gets this feeling all day long at different times and not always during the same activity.  Can anyone shed some light on this for us? The therapists we've spoken to haven't been much help....

bridgie101
bridgie101
I have so many questions. :) Has he had a nervous breakdown? How bad has the anxiety been? How is he eating, sleeping? I had some times of disorientation, some times of things not feeling real, I found in the worst times my mind was mostly used up and I had only a little left to try and do things like hear people, listen to them, reply to them... that was often hard. So I don't know what he's gone through, or whether he's on the way down or on the way up. but I'd guess the only thing that will help is time, good food, sleep and rest, peace, maybe a month on a deck chair at the seaside (I suggest this a lot).

I remember feeling in the bad times that I was all full up. That I was full of information and I couldn't take any more in. I had to find a way to stop the flow. Slow life down enough that life was only generating as much as I could process. I don't know how to describe it. And I don't know if that's what your boyfriend is experiencing, either. Can he tell us more about how it comes on, and how it feels?