Posted by natas4u on July 26, 2003, at 4:09:07
In reply to Re: CRAIG and everyone please read, posted by furryz on July 25, 2003, at 19:55:04
First of all sorry for my alias. It might offend some people but it's a name I got from a skate boarding hero from my youth.
Secondly I would like to speak about something I forgot to mention. For what I have heard we interact with our selves and our surrounding through emotions. That is objects provide us with emotions for what when emocionaly numbed reality seems like a dream.
I raeally did not want to extend my self in Serotonine and SSRI because of people undergoing treatment with these drugs. My girl friend described to me the derealization state, before she even new it is my way of life. She was induced into it from taking SSRI, when she stopped taking it, it disapeared.
My mind also races all the time. It is working under huge stress constantly so i think that is only obvious.
My memory has been getting worst and I can not sustain concentration unless the matter is extremely interesting or convinient. For one side things don't seem to be important enough to memorize and for the other I don't seem to have time.
Have you tried stopping your mind? It's really hard for me, but when I do it it's like I've sudenly gone dumb. Mind stops speaking. After about ten minutes reality is more powerfull, although not as powefull as that split second I can see it out of will power.
Another thing i do to stop my miind from racing is not doing things all the time and quickly. I force my self to go slow and try not to get envolved in to many things. Although when I stop my rithm I do get panic atacks. I guess the beast is catching up. For that what I do is stop complettly and let it reach me. It's scary but you eventually realize that nothing is going to hapen. Then you can rest.
If there is a drug that can help I think it has to be one that awakens your senses by relaxing.
A way I think is pretty good to identify what the derealization feeling is is with movies. Any body seen The Blair Witch Project? Campare it to any other movie. I think it is quite scary because it has been filmed in Super 8 and domestic cameras. The sense I get when I get a glance of the intesity of reality is like going from a regular Hollywood movie to The Blair Witch Project.
This is how I figured out derealization.
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