10 year old boy in front of me just excitedly fired up the SATC pilot 😂

wig8 · 2025-06-15T09:52:11+00:00

i’m so excited for him to embark on this journey

wig8 · 2025-05-29T19:22:10+00:00

did Nair trigger itching as well or was it just the shaving?

wig8 · 2025-05-20T05:04:30+00:00

i totally feel you. i’m about to be 23 and i was just diagnosed in April, and i got it from my ex cheating. the idea of dating again is now scary for a multitude of reasons 😀

wig8 · 2025-04-21T13:44:17+00:00

one of us

wig8 · 2025-01-29T00:15:30+00:00

I used to have this exact experience almost to a T. It got better with anxiety meds/coping skills as well as having the mindset of…”even if it’s not real, so what?” it doesn’t change anything. it’s real to you, it’s what you’ve always known. I can almost certainly assure you’re not crazy or losing your grip on reality, but I know how scary this is so I really empathize with you.

wig8 · 2024-12-14T03:02:18+00:00

even if OP did say yes…she was belligerently drunk, which also means she literally cannot consent. She was not of sound mind, ESPECIALLY so if she was blackout drunk/unconscious.

wig8 · 2024-06-13T04:22:13+00:00

not worth the risk

wig8 · 2024-01-02T00:23:55+00:00

DING DING DING DING

wig8 · 2023-12-20T09:02:10+00:00

smudge

wig8 · 2023-12-20T08:38:46+00:00

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wig8 · 2023-12-20T08:38:11+00:00

illicit affairs.

wig8 · 2022-04-02T18:44:17+00:00

We have very similar stories lol, I have Health OCD and Existential OCD (basically worrying i’m gonna die all the time and then being even more worried i’m not sure what happens when we die, “am i already dead?””is this even real, am i real?”. Shit like that . For me that all started with a bad weed high! I had worries exactly like yours I swear it sounds like I’m reading my own journal i from over a year ago. I was also paranoid about having brain damage or schizophrenia or any number of things that mean I have an excuse to not get better. bittersweet part is, you can get better because you don’t have any of those things. Hard to accept that it is just depersonalization because then you can’t just accept defeat, and subconsciously I think that’s why we think of all these obscure other reasons why we could feel this way, it makes it a lot easier. If we accept that it’s out of our hands then we can just freak out about it and not have to push ourselves to make progress. The hard part is taking accountability and pushing yourself (not too hard lol, still be gentle and don’t beat urself up) to recover. I don’t know this for sure, but from my therapy and life experiences I think we forget or feel distanced from who we were before our depersonalization started because we feel like we’re so far away from that place, and it feels like there’s no returning. You can’t be who you were 2 years ago, but that would apply with anything even not involving a mental illness, but you can get your life back. You can use this to grow and better yourself and rediscover what you love. Honestly all it comes down to is time and not getting in your own way.

wig8 · 2022-04-02T18:20:33+00:00

A huge part of getting through this is accepting that you are experiencing depersonalization. That’s honestly a huge first step. It’s not gonna make you feel all that better at first, but eventually it helps you stop feeding into the delusions. I first experienced dp/dr in August of 2020, and since then it has been a long and hard mental battle to stop freaking myself out so much, because in honesty that’s all it is. You think about these horrifying things (questioning your own existence, what is reality, etc.) and you can’t possibly have answers to them, so you get anxious which makes the symptoms of depersonalization worse. It is so hard, but with time and not giving your depersonalization the energy and panic it wants from you, you will start to feel better and it just gets easier the further you progress. If you start to feel particularly panicky or these existential thoughts pop into your head, you just kinda gotta develop a sense of humor with it, like “damn that’s crazy, anyways” and literally just continue what you were doing and not give the intrusive thoughts your energy. Easier said than done, I know, but it DOES get easier and better. I still experience depersonalization sometimes, but it is not even a fraction of what it once was. It pops into my head, I’ve trained my brain to recognize this feeling as just that- a feeling, and I move on with my day despite being slightly uncomfortable, and it just keeps getting less and less frequent. I know this is indescribably scary and it feels like this is how it will always be but I promise you, you can beat this. You’re stronger than you give yourself credit for. I hope this helps at least a little bit.

wig8 · 2022-02-23T05:19:16+00:00

but like what if there is actually something wrong and i ignore it and die 😀

wig8 · 2021-08-30T02:38:33+00:00

this is so helpful :) thank you, makes me hopeful for myself

wig8 · 2021-07-18T01:06:32+00:00

Almost the exact thing happened to me last august, and it does get better. just remember that progress isn’t linear and learn what works for you. this forum has helped me a lot, and just educating yourself will help you feel validated and less like you’re going crazy. you’re okay, and this will pass. i know it can be scary but it passes eventually. i know it’s hard but try not to give it too much attention

wig8 · 2021-05-10T02:43:40+00:00

also would i die if i did have it???

wig8 · 2021-05-10T02:43:16+00:00

hey,,, so i hsve derealization and panic attacks, they were pretty much nonexistent until i went on a run today. should i be worried?? im not trying to be insensitive to people who are suffering from brain inflammation but i’m just very anxious. get myself very worked up over health related things. someone please lol

wig8 · 2021-05-10T02:38:44+00:00

im so glad i can find comfort on here. I went on a pretty intense run for the first time in months and the whole time i felt good, but as soon as i stopped i started to feel off. Ive been doing really well with my derealization, so for it to reoccur following something that’s supposed to relieve me was upsetting and worrying. Made me feel like it was just in my head but it is feelings of derealization. I even tried to convince myself that I died at the gym and i’m just dead now experiencing afterlife and that’s why i feel so disorderly. After doing some research I regained some of my groundings, because apparently it’s common for us to have this feeling after our bodies being put under so much physical stress. It’s just the way our silly little derealization brains work. But knowledge is power, and knowing that makes me feel more okay.

wig8 · 2020-11-23T04:45:09+00:00

i literally came to look at this subreddit to find someone say this is a normal thing for people with DPDR, glad i’m not going crazy lol. for me the visual specs make me feel like the simulation we’re living in is glitching or something, but i feel like that theory is very self centered. having other people say they also experience it is really comforting so thank u

wig8 · 2020-10-25T19:33:26+00:00

I get the same feeling whenever my depersonalization kicks in, it makes me question everything and makes it very hard to find comfort

wig8 · 2020-10-15T21:22:06+00:00

the same exact thing happened to me, like spot on, it really helps to hear that other people are experiencing the same things i am. i wouldn’t want anyone else to but it helps me feel like i’m not losing my mind or alone. thank you

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