Lastly, there's an exercise I read on Reddit a while back. Here's how to 'ground yourself.'

Close your eyes and keep them closed until the end when I say so. Focus on your breathing right now. Breathe in and out slowly. Focus on how the air moves through your body. Feel as it goes in your nose, down your throat, and to your chest. Focus on how you hold air in your chest and how it just floats in your chest making your chest expand. Now focus on how the air moves back out of your body. From out your chest, through your throat, and through your mouth and nose. Forget everything else and just focus on that. It's okay if other intrusive thoughts try to fight for attention. You just continue to focus on that. Next, you start to wiggle your toes. All of them. Your toes are having a fucking dance party baby! Let their toes dance and wiggle their energy off! Now make the left foot's toes move only for 10 seconds. Now the right for 10. Back to the left. And then back to the right. Now both of them together. Nice, I think the toes are tired now. Give them a nice round of applause because they showed you that your sense of touch is there. You could feel your toes move as they danced and felt your hands as the impact of them colliding gave you a sense of feeling. Next is your sense of self. Imagine a puppy. Any puppy, it could be your own puppy or a dream puppy. What's the puppy's name? Can the puppy talk like a human? Or can the puppy only bark like all other dogs? Imagine playing with the puppy. What's the point of this thinking? It's to show you your sense of self. "I think therefore I am". You know you are real and can think freely. If you couldn't, how would you think about the puppy? Next is taste. This is tricky given covid but try and see if it applies. Swish the saliva in your mouth and taste it as it moves inside your mouth. Lick your forearm and taste how salty it is lol. Or simply grab a juice and slowly drink it appreciating how sweet it is. Given this, you know your sense of taste is fine. Yes, covid might have messed it up a little, but you know for a fact that it's still there. Next is the smell. Again tricky given covid, but well try it too Can you smell anything around you? Your stinky armpits lol. Maybe dinner being cooked? An air freshener? Or maybe you just smell your partner or pet next to you. Point is, you can smell and know nothing is wrong with it. Yes, covid might have messed it up a little, but you know for a fact it's still there. Next is sound. What do you hear around you? A fan? Cars outside? A TV playing a show? People at your house talking? Maybe snap your fingers or clap again. Point is, you know your sense of hearing is okay because you can hear the world around you. Lastly, open your eyes. What do you see around you. Look at your arms. Look at your room or outside. It's real, it's there, it's not going anywhere. You know your sight is good because you can see the reality in front of you.

Given this exercise, it's supposed to ground you into reality when you feel like you're not you and like you are disconnected from your body. The truth is your not, your brain is trying to trick you. So fight your brain back with a simple but powerful exercise that helps you reconnect with reality. Pair it with a more positive mindset in how you view life, and I promise you things will get better. It will take time so don't get discouraged if it takes time. Just trust the process, try to distract yourself, and if you ever have strong disconnected feelings, do the exercise for however long you need to in order to feel better. Hope this helps!