Thread: Please, I need help. My mind is thinking that everything around me is not real - Lucid Dream caused

Depersonalization...what a bitch. A few years back I was having panic attacks, losing sleep, with my brain in a permanent state of horror that perhaps my world was not real, nor was I real, nor was anyone else real. I would pay close attention to every detail of things, always automaticaly questioning if this or that was actually there, why do I have hands, what is food, etc. There was a constant sensation that I was about to disappear, just *pop* vanish. The brain is at Defcon 4 and you have so solve that issue.

-Stay off any stimulants.

-Write about what you experience - it's interesting to read when you're better and also helps you to see how you are thinking about your world.

-Drink a few beers or some wine to cool your mind down. If you can't do that, try some other method of relaxing your mind and pushing random fear-based logic out of your thinking.

-Remind yourself not to question everything, even though it seems you must. Keep yourself distracted somehow. Video games work. Books work.

-keep writing about your perceptions.

-get more sleep

-interact with people

When this happened to me at 21 on through 23, depersonalizatin/derealization, it came also with depression and anxiety - a whole walloping load of mental confusion, self-questioning, severe doubt, 'what's-the-point-of-it-all' thinking, feeling like I was on a permanent trip, and I thought it would never end but it finally did. It's a weird wave but you just have to ride it while it's there.

As far as proving if any of this is real? Nah, never figured that out. Just had to let it go.

I never sought treatment for what I was experiencing. The cure is to STOP CARING about whether life is real or not and just roll with it. Your case sounds exactly like my own, and who knows, maybe you are me in the future here writing from the past also to me as I am here in the future reading what you are now experiencing in the past and writing about to me in the future reading it now when actually I am experiencing it in the past and writing to me about it so that I will read it in the future which would therefore make me you. must-shut-brain-down

Learning to laugh at it helped tremendously.