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Nothing feels real

snoweyNew Contributor29 Jan 2019, 6:02 pm AEDT

Nothing feels real

I am wondering whether anyone has experienced anything like this?

For the last year things have being feeling less and less real. I have experienced dissociation before, but usually I come back to feeling real within a short period of time or with sensory grounding techniques.

I really can't shake the feeling. It's there 24/7 and nothing I do reduces it. Nothing I experience feels real to me. It's become more of an issue recently and I'm questionning everything that I see/feel/hear. It feels like a Trueman show scenario where everything has been set up around me. I sometimes think that my partner and close friends are a figure of my imagination - I'm convinced that I've just made them up.

I am just wondering if anyone else out there has experiences similar things before and if you have any tips for what has helped you.

(While I don't care too much about diagnosis, I was diagnosed with bipolar back in 2016. In hospital stays since then, doctors say it's not clear cut as to whether what I'm experiencing is dissociative or psychotic in nature.)

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Eden1919Senior Contributor29 Jan 2019, 9:19 pm AEDT

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hello that sounds a bit like depersonalization to me i have issues with that and it can be very scary. i find sometimes sensory things helps with feeling unreal if it is getting too much maybe see your doctor again.

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wbpd1500Contributor29 Jan 2019, 9:22 pm AEDT

Re: Nothing feels real

Hi thanks for the info. Haven't heard of depersonalization before. Do you know what casuses it?

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wbpd1500Contributor29 Jan 2019, 9:41 pm AEDT

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Hi there.

I hear you... Currently going through something similar myself I'm in day 2. I don't know if it's a result from long term use of LSD but I do have a diagnosis of BPD and Schizophrenia. But this feels different.

Usually as you said itend to recover quickly from dissociative symptoms based on grounding techniques and sometime extra medication like a atypical antipsychotic but this time it hasn't worked.

Even sitting here writing this feels like a dream. I haven't done anything outside my usual routine eather. But feel it's getting worse.

Spoke to the psychiatrist today and he doesn't think it's a psychotic epesode as I'm not delusional or hearing the voices what I get when generally having a epesode ay.

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