Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I'm scared right now. About a year ago, I had this extremely bad fear that i was going to develop Schizophrenia and go insane....Well, right now, i feel like i am going to go insane. I feel so out of it right now. I think the fear of becoming or being Schizophrenic is coming back or is back. I had the fear for about a year and a half last time i had it. It was terrible, and i really hope it isn't coming back. I feel so out of it, and i can't even explain the feeling. I just feel weird, like i don't know what's going on, but yet i do. It's freaking me out a lot.
I'll space out for a second and forget what I am doing in the middle of doing something, or like a few minuets ago, i forgot the cat was on my lap because i spaced out for a second. This is really freaking me out. I feel like i'm going to go crazy any second now, or that something is wrong with my brain... I hate this feeling and i hate even more that i can't explain how i am feeling... Everything just feels so off.....and i feel kind of confused...
I am really hoping that this is just anxiety and not schizophrenia or a brain problem like a stroke.....i'm really scared right now. Also, nothing is making sense to me.....it seems like.....
Am I going to be okay? I'm really freaked out.
I'll space out for a second and forget what I am doing in the middle of doing something, or like a few minuets ago, i forgot the cat was on my lap because i spaced out for a second. This is really freaking me out. I feel like i'm going to go crazy any second now, or that something is wrong with my brain... I hate this feeling and i hate even more that i can't explain how i am feeling... Everything just feels so off.....and i feel kind of confused...
I am really hoping that this is just anxiety and not schizophrenia or a brain problem like a stroke.....i'm really scared right now. Also, nothing is making sense to me.....it seems like.....
Am I going to be okay? I'm really freaked out.
I am not a doctor, but for what it's worth, my sister has schizophrenia and first off, you don't know you have it when you do. When people truly "lose it" to put it one way, they actually do not think they are. They think they are perfectly fine. Plus it is nothing like you are describing. You literally lose sense of reality, and by that I don't mean you space out, I mean you start believing things that are untrue, seeing things, hearing things, etc.
As for having a stroke, you wouldn't be able to type words on a computer if that were happening.
It sounds like you are having some depersonalization. I get this way when I am stressed out or if I have lost sleep or if I eat a bunch of crap for too long. hang in there, and go easy on yourself. You are not going crazy, you are having anxiety and your mind is in overdrive.
Believe it or not it is a defense mechanism for your brain. When you are anxious you send signals to your body that you are in danger. In order to survive, your brain "zones out" so that you can preserve your adrenaline for fight or flight. If you get emotional, which is what would happen if your brain did not do this, then your chances of survival would go way down. You can't focus if you are too emotional.
I hope that makes sense. If you don't take a good multivitamin now then definitely start, and cut out sugar if you haven't done that too. That has really helped me.
Take care and get some rest!!