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In all my years helping people overcome anxiety, the symptoms that most unnerve people, are the ones related to mental manifestations of anxiety.
I am talking here about feelings of unreality (DP/DR) or intrusive thoughts.
Those were the symptoms that most troubled me when I was caught up in the anxiety loop.
I feared for my own sanity. I feared I would go mad, I feared I would be stuck like that forever.
When Michelle Cavanaugh and Aida Beco told me that this was a major theme in their one to one sessions with people, we decided it was time we three recorded a video to give people information and guidance on how to overcome it.
So if you suffer from feelings of unreality or feel disconnected from yourself or deal with intrusive thoughts, this video we just recorded will help you immensely!
It's a video I wish I could have had access to all those years ago for my own recovery. If I had seen this, I know I would have saved myself a lot of unnecessary anguish.
Depersonalization symptoms. (From the Mayo Clinic)
Symptoms of depersonalization include:
Feelings that you're an outside observer of your thoughts, feelings, your body or parts of your body - for example, as if you were floating in air above yourself
-Feeling like a robot or that you're not in control of your speech or movements
-The sense that your body, legs or arms appear distorted, enlarged or shrunken, or that your head is wrapped in cotton
-Emotional or physical numbness of your senses or responses to the world around you
-A sense that your memories lack emotion, and that they may or may not be your own memories
Derealization symptoms
Symptoms of derealization include:
-Feelings of being alienated from or unfamiliar with your surroundings - for example, like you're living in a movie or a dream
-Feeling emotionally disconnected from people you care about, as if you were separated by a glass wall
-Surroundings that appear distorted, blurry, colorless, two-dimensional or artificial, or a heightened awareness and clarity of your surroundings
-Distortions in perception of time, such as recent events feeling like distant past
-Distortions of distance and the size and shape of objects
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