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Posted by mmcconathy on January 21, 2005, at 18:45:51
I go in these *spells* where i feel like im flouting away, and i feel like i dont connect with the enviorment.
Here are the best symptoms i can describe:
1) A numbness feeling, egg cracked on my head, and the yok is ozzing down, hard to explain
2) Feel a fear of not knowing what is happening
3) Just........a very disconnected feeling, i feel and fear as if I will start making up my own "theroies" in my mind that dont logically add up
4) Vertigo, at times off balance
5) Sometimes feels like a dream trance, i am blizts, like a blank stare, very hard to get out of, especially when im driving.
Does this sound anything to psychotic symptoms, i have STOPPED my adderall for the time being becuase I dont know what goes on, and it interferes. Klonopin does nothing.Please tell me your advice and on medication, I have asked my doctor about Respirdal, given me samples, but dont really treat it well, just less "flouting thoughts"
Thanks
Matt
Posted by Maxime on January 21, 2005, at 23:18:26
In reply to Am i losing reality?, posted by mmcconathy on January 21, 2005, at 18:45:51
When i miss a dose of adderall I feel that way. Maybe you are going through withdrawal. Why don't you try taking it again and see if the feelings go away. That way you will know.
Maxime
> I go in these *spells* where i feel like im flouting away, and i feel like i dont connect with the enviorment.
>
> Here are the best symptoms i can describe:
>
> 1) A numbness feeling, egg cracked on my head, and the yok is ozzing down, hard to explain
>
> 2) Feel a fear of not knowing what is happening
>
> 3) Just........a very disconnected feeling, i feel and fear as if I will start making up my own "theroies" in my mind that dont logically add up
>
> 4) Vertigo, at times off balance
>
> 5) Sometimes feels like a dream trance, i am blizts, like a blank stare, very hard to get out of, especially when im driving.
>
>
> Does this sound anything to psychotic symptoms, i have STOPPED my adderall for the time being becuase I dont know what goes on, and it interferes. Klonopin does nothing.
>
> Please tell me your advice and on medication, I have asked my doctor about Respirdal, given me samples, but dont really treat it well, just less "flouting thoughts"
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
Posted by lames jill on January 22, 2005, at 14:22:40
In reply to Re: Am i losing reality?, posted by Maxime on January 21, 2005, at 23:18:26
Hey, thanks for summarizing these feelings for me. The same thing happens to me, but its jsut so hard to put words to it. The best way i can describe it is feeling liek the world is a movie. I am on Lexapro for anxiety and thes spells go on for about a week. Went i went to a phychiatrist he said that this is depersonalization, which is pretty common with anxiety. I get the same feelinsg like if i am going crazy or something, or r these feelings just apart of my anxiety. These spells are so annoying and they are impossible to shake. I dont think we r going crazy, but thses spells do suck and i wish i could gert rid of them once and for all
Posted by jujube on January 22, 2005, at 16:32:47
In reply to Am i losing reality?, posted by mmcconathy on January 21, 2005, at 18:45:51
Matthew,
I know how difficult and scarey things must be
for you right now, and my heart goes to you. I don't know anything about Adderall, or what you might experience in terms of withdrawal. What I can tell you is that a lot of the symptoms you
are experiencing are things that I have experienced when my anxiety is over the top (especially the vertigo/dizziness and feeling disconnected and spaced out). Severe anxiety can really cause all kinds of unnerving and frightening symptoms.You really need to talk to someone openly and honestly about what you are experiencing and how you have been trying to self-medicate. I think, too, that you need someone to confide in about your situation at home, particularly how your dad makes you feel. Can you get in to see your pdoc to discuss at length your symptoms, your fears of neurotoxicity, and your medication? Can your pdoc refer you to a therapist so that you can at least talk about the stresses in your life? Or, is there a school counsellor who you could talk to? What you are going through is a lot, and it is important that you get some help (don't try to do it alone).
Please try to hang in there and take care of yourself.
.
Posted by bimini on January 22, 2005, at 16:44:02
In reply to Am i losing reality?, posted by mmcconathy on January 21, 2005, at 18:45:51
I call them "gaps". It feels like sinking, everything becomes quiet even noise, like it belongs elsewhere. Can't understand when someone talks to me and can't speak. Lose sense of direction and have fallen over so I hold onto something or sit and wait it out. I can't control it nor stop it. Sometimes I get a warning just before, I see blobs of shapes or my face starts tingeling.
First time this happened while I was driving, several city blocks later I wondered who was driving the car, freaked out when I realized there was only me. I was not taking any medications at this time. I avoided driving for a long time.
I believe these gaps are complex partial seizures. Some of them are very visually intense, I no longer try to fight it, I can't stop them. I get several every day, more since taking stimulants.
bimini
Posted by mmcconathy on January 22, 2005, at 21:20:12
In reply to Re: Am i losing reality?, posted by bimini on January 22, 2005, at 16:44:02
mmmm
Well im getting somewhere, im tring to see if its a try of siezure, or just psychological dissociation, which my therapist told me it sounds. I've told him alot of stress that happens, i've been streched and beatned, he said this may have triggered some of these symptoms.
But still there is other stuff, similar to siezres, one time ordering food at sonic, i could not talk or move, i felt "froze", i had an EEG but i havent talked with my neuroloist yet, it will be a while....
Well atlest I dont feel alone.
Matt
Posted by Camille Dumont on January 22, 2005, at 23:39:27
In reply to Am i losing reality?, posted by mmcconathy on January 21, 2005, at 18:45:51
Sounds a bit like depersonalization or derealization. I have the former but I found an really silly and simple way to stop the "episodes" when they happen.
As soon as I start feeling myself "floating away" I reach for the nearest solid thing. A book, the desk, a staples, it doesn't matter what it is as long as its solid. And then I squeeze it hard ... very very hard, to the point where the muscles hurt and / or the pointy parts of the object start to dig into the skin. This pain sort of forces me to "stay there" and usually puts an end to the episode. It sorts of keeps me grounded without having to resort to things which cause permanent damage.
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