General Mental Unwellness thread

yes I  get that side of disosiation when stressed aswell for me. but   for me in my case if stressed and particularly if over stressed  I dont get flu like symptoms for me in referance to the last paragraph.

but if im over stressed  can feell under the weather.  it uses up alot of energy so it can make me feell tired or run down and when im tired or run down I can get all sorts of things. I dont usualy fever like symptoms or get cold like symptoms but can get signs of low energy or getting drained or  run down so  my body responds with  dry eyes and mouth  I also suffer from stress headaches if very anxious or over stressed but when im ok again or not over stressed  anymore  it goes away and it looks  as if nothing ever happened.

the body can react in all sorts of ways when overly stressed both psysicaly and mentally.  the only one I dont exsperiance is the flu like symptoms in the last paragraph in the message you wrote but I can relate to the part about the room that can look slightly strange looking smaller or bigger and the feelling of is this real or not. for things can also  apear to be moving in the sense of moving further away or closer to you aswell sometimes at the same time but  other times it can be just a part of the room becoming distorted or un realistic and get biger or smaller this doesnt allways happen though. other times i might just get what alienated human described on there disasociation whereas other times i might just get the size thing you get  in disociation  it can also happen all together but not allways

I wrote this when stressed looking after my wife who had vascular dementia.

'iF IAM F***ing lucky i 'll get to have the mental fever breaking bit was
what happened real or wasit a dream disconnected everythingh is
unaturally calm bit with the room looking
slighly weird insome way smaller bigger clearer just basically somehow
out of sync like everything is veing seen through the lwens of a an
avant garde camera man stoned on on lsd.'

I'm also prone to having flu like symptoms when overly stressed

thats ok. I understand what you mean part of my autism is that I dont like changes either which can cause high levels of Anxiety. the feelling about not being in your body that you are describing sounds like zoneing out and disosociation. 

you dont need a disorder to exsperiance dis asociation and you csn disososiate even if you havnt been diagnosed with a disososiation disorder

it can be a synptom  of  post traumatic stress disorder, Anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and Borderline personality disorder 

but you can also disasociate when you dont have a disorder aswell and so  is considered normal to an exstent. 

I exsperiance dissociation when im stressed aswell.

for me though I can also get stress related hallucinations  though  which are hallucinations caused my stress but not everyone gets hallucinations or hallucinations caused by stress it is completely normal.

aswrll as that usualy when anxious due to things being too loud, crowded places, disruption to routine or sensory overwhelm can disosiate in the way you described aswell though  you. not allways. for me as an infividual its more common tham the stress related hallucinations I can get so when you described that I understand what your talking about. 

dissociation is when you feell disconnected from yourself and the world around you like feeling disconnected from your body for instsnce 

 an outside observer or looking at yourself from the outside  you can also feell like your living in a dream but everyoned exsperisnce is different. 

it is the minds way of dealing with stress. some people have learned to dis osociate as a way of dealing with it. 

so if you ever feell that way your not alone cause other people like me can get it when  things happen aswell 

in case you might be interested 

de realisation is a type of disososiation 

it is where you feell like the world around you isnt real

for instance seeing things change shape or colours 

feelling detached ftom the world around you or seperated from it 

the world looking lifeless.  or a foggy feeling like your living in a dream 

wheres de personalisation is looking at yourself from the outside 

feelling like your disconnected from parts of your body or emotions, or  feelling like your floating away, etc there is another type of disosociation 

there is also disosiative fatgue 

which is gaps in memory in other words not being able to remember certain events or about yourself or your hostory, and forgeting how to do something youv allways been able to do well in the past 

the type of disosociation you described sounds like de realisation or de personalisation 

but like I said anyone can exsperiance it at any time and can be caused by stress like it  was with you and everyone  exsperiances disosociation differently if or when it does happen. 

its good that you feell much better now 

if there was a change or disruption to your routine it is understandable that it made you feell the way it did but like I said im glad you feell better. 

as for the book you lost it can help to think where you had it last and where you remeber putting last even if you dont know where it is right now.  where did you last have it? 

Some people, who had a s**t life, intend to make EVERYONE'S life s**t!

Get everyone b***hing about others, while ignoring the real threat.

Don't hate the Player! Hate the Game! 

Here's another thing to be depressed about.  The country that we live in is almost certainly never going to get better.  And there are people waiting in the wings who if handed power will make it a lot worse.  There's a real lack of intelligence, pathos and ethics at play and I see it everywhere.  In all classes, all backgrounds and all communities.  What  rational response is there to that other than to force a barrel of a shotgun into your own mouth and pull the trigger?

They help me a bit - if I’m not on meds, it’s very easy to make me cry and it’s very hard for me to calm down. With meds I’m more stable, and if I start crying, it’s easier for me to calm down. But this time meds didn’t help. 

Thank you, the only thing that happened recently was my holidays in my hometown I visited my parents, it was good we spent nice time but it was a disruption to my routine which results in me feeling like I’m not in my body or something like that and crying without any obvious reason. Now it’s better. The problem is that I lost any will to do anything enjoyable. Before I started writing a new sci fi novel and unfortunately I lost it. 

I dont know if your still feelling the same way now but have you tryed things to help cheer you up like listening to your favourate song or listening to some jokes or watching a movie or drawing or something you find enjoyable  ? if not then maybe that might help if you dont know why. if not sometimes it can help to write poetry, or just write or draw what your feeling. you dont have to know why your feelling the way you are to do it. another thing is ask yourself if anything has happened recently that has made you feell a certain way if not then one thing you could do is something you enjoy otherwise if not then its just rideing it out until it passes but these things could help while you do if you havnt already. 

They don't hurt that bad at the moment.  When they start hurting again ,I'll have more of an incentive to get them fixed

I hope you can overcome the SA enough to get them sorted out.

I  quit heavy alcohol usage a decade ago.   It is possible to quit, but it will be difficult.

I don't have any advice on social occasions as currently  I avoid them all.  I would not recommend doing what I do.  What's the worst that could happen?  I wish you good luck.

Med's have never helped me either.

Thankyou Debbie.

Feel free to vent in this thread.

My teeth are in a bad state because I'm too socially anxious to go to a dentist  at the moment

I hope you got some sleep in the end?

I don't disagree with that.

If you've got a really old house then it may be better and cheaper to go for somethng custom built, either that or have a free standing kitchen, they're becoming much more fashionable again. I did see on a tv program about ex display kitchen's or ones that have been returned because they've had a scratch or don't fit, I looked them up online and there are loads of places that do them and they're a fraction of the price like about 20k cheaper!

I will see how I feel nearer the time about going out and how many more additions there will be, propbably there will be someone or two that won't go to and Indian restuarant, even though it has quite a big range of British food, that will be my queue to drop out to stop it getting too complicated.

Yeh I get you there. I am not depressed but I do have problems with alcohol in the sense that I appear to need it because of some kind of chemical imbalance in my autistic brain. I wish there was more known about autism and more treatments available. I know not everyone wants a treatment. But to be honest I do just want to feel better without the alcohol. All my family line is autistic and alcoholics. I don’t talk to any of them anymore they all abandoned me they don’t answer my messages. I’m on my own got no one. Except my dad he is not autistic though unlike my mother who is. Don’t know why my autistic family members don’t want anything to do with me? Who knows? Anyway yeh my mum is also an alcoholic always has been always will be. It must be the GABA brain transmitters. I have been taking my B6 vitamins again and they help a bit with my brain imbalances. But it’s not enough sadly. I feel as though I need anticonvulsants or something but I would have to see a neurologist for that and I am on the list. But still have to wait till January or something before I get seen and I have been waiting since 4 months ago. What if I’m dead by the time I get seen by this neurologist what the use in that? lol. Anyway I appreciate you giving me this space to share my depressing thoughts lol