Hi all- serious stuff here that i'm very
concerned about. I've never been to a
psychologist and have never been
prescribed anything for mental health. I
have been feeling as if my brain just went
numb recently. I am an 18 year old
entrepreneur and feel as if I have lost
all my motivation. I feel extremely
disconnected and my friend just told me my
eyes look glazed over. Here's a timeline
to make it easier:
-i got depressed, experimented with
marijuana.
Tried it about five times...Never felt any
changes afterwards, always went back to
normal.
-1 month since last time with marijuana.
I get extremely depressed, no friends
calling, etc., so I find a sample of 10mg
lexapro. I decide i've had enough of my
shyness, lack of real confidence, ocd
symptoms, and I figured it was time to
test it out.
-felt not so good the next day,
sluggish...Completely lost my usual sense
of drive and motivation (kind of like i'm
feeling right now). Also felt some weird
muscle pain in my thigh (nerves maybe?)
that was it, one pill, never took it
again.
- felt fine after for two or so weeks.
- I am always on the computer, about 7-10
hours a day. I was staying up late on the
computer, waking up late and going back on
the computer first thing. One night I
come home from out and am about 30 minutes
in on the computer. It is about 4:30am I
believe and I completely lose all
consciousness for a second. I feel myself
going out of consciousness and feeling
scared to death even though it was a split
second and right after I come back into
consciousness holding my head. I feel
extremely disoriented and make my way to
my bed and sleep it off.
-since then I feel this whole numbness of
the brain and my mind just doesn't feel
the same as it was. I feel disconnected,
my eyes are glazed over. I am trying to
get out more and away from the computer
because I don't know if it was epileptic
or what.
Extremely worried, please help.
Please don't judge me on my
experimentation-- I got extremely
depressed and was looking for something,
anything. Not that I think there is
anything inherently wrong with it. It
would have to have been a last resort
because it is against my faith to smoke,
drink, or do drugs. I'm a good kid, just
in a weird situation. Please help me.
Also, my family is leaving for a weekend
trip out of state and we will be back by
sunday night. I'm wondering, should I go
on the trip and see someone when I get
back or go see a university psychologist
about this tomorrow?
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bic
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 7
Posted: 08-25-06 04:23am
Ok first off this came from smokeing weed
trust me when you smoked it you felt wierd
like you never felt before
so!!>>> you panickd so there for
causeing your brain to overload with fear
and panic so what you have to do it quit
smokeing weed and focus more on copeing
with anxiety and derealization cause thats
what it is look it up there is tons and
tons of it on the net .....Look up
derealization and anxiety ...Later
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slyderex
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 5
Posted: 08-28-06 18:15pm
Thanks bic, it looks like
depersonalization is what it is. I'm
still not sure if I should go to a
doctor/psychiatrist though.
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bic
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 7
Posted: 08-29-06 02:26am
A psychiatrist is ok but the main thing
that there going to do is put you on meds
like ativan,klonipon,xanex,or even anti
psychotic meds like zyprexa or even a ssri
like
effexor,paxil,wellbutrin,zoloft,lexapro
etc. And make you feel comfertable about
it but in reality alot of psychiatrist
dont even know what your talking about
when you say the word "derealization"
alot of them dont even know what it is ?
So the main thing you have to do is
understand what derealization is and stop
doing things that make you feel like your
out of it or floating or out of your body
like smokeing weed lol or any kind of
drug that makes you feel out of it cause
it has trained your brain to think your
out of it all the time and everytime you
panic about it makes it 1000 times worse
its like its happening all over again
.....But the good thing about this is it
will ease with time you just got to calm
down and get used to it and learn to cope
with things and once you do that it will
slowly fade its going to take a while but
it will slowly fade away but you got to
stay away from the things that cause it if
thats the last thing you do unless you
want to feel like this all the time like
your high lol but anyways .......Later
..Bic
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slyderex
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 5
Posted: 08-29-06 22:10pm
Yeah no more weed experimentation for me.
I'm gonna try and keep myself occupied and
less anxious and hopefully this will fade
away. Another thing I forgot to mention.
Could this be the cause of my
derealization as well?
It may be that i've cut off relations or
lost relations with pretty much every
person i've known in the last year. I
don't talk to any friends I had in high
school. I don't talk to the only
childhood friends I was still friends with
anymore. I haven't heard from anyone I
spent time with my entire first year of
college this year. And i've cut off
relations with any friends that I never
got any reciprocity from..Which is
basically all of them. Maybe that's
what's causing the derealization.
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bic
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 7
Posted: 08-30-06 06:11am
Yes smokeing weed is the reason for your
derealization and also a big part of you
derealization is coming from anxiety also
you said you cut off allmost all your
friends this is a big classic sign of
social anxiety cause you feel like crapp
all the time and you feel that when your
around these people that it makes it worse
and you feel more anxus or it just could
be the fact that you going through all
this stuff and you feel that non of them
understand or care which is kindof true
cause they dont understand cause it never
happend to them before so they dissmiss it
and treat it like its nothing and you
would be the same way if it never happend
to you so the only thing you can do is try
to fix yourself cause your the only one
that can do it cause nobody else
understands what the heck is going on and
they never will untill it happens to them
but you cant sit there and beat yourself
up for not hanging out with your friends
or not being social cause that will cause
more probs than you allready have so just
dont worry about it and do the best you
can and dont worry about others cause
remember they dont understand and trust me
once you get on a good track and just
focus on getting better and copeing with
this it will fade and then you will come
back to this a laff ......
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21lang
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 11 Location: michigan
Posted: 09-09-06 00:35am
Hi, i'm 22 and was experimenting weed and
I was fine for about the first , second
time untill the third time after I got
done I was in a weird daze like I was
detached from myself, then my legs arms
even my gums went numb.Soon after that I
found out that I had a panic attack real
bad one,still now today I still feel
disoriented sometimes but not that bad i'm
learning how to control that.What helps me
is I just tell myself it's just my anxiety
it's nothing major.
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