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What should I do about this? Please help.
13/F
So I have a few questions, and I just need help ASAP. Okay so since about June 2012, I've felt weird. I think it may be Depersonalization, but I just can't deal with it in my everyday life anymore. I was hoping it would go away by now, but it hasn't. It kind of stops if I get my mind off it, but of course it will come back. Anyways, I saw a post someone made and it said something about being in a coma or whatever. Now I'm really scared because what if I am in a coma? I don't know anymore. I just want to stop this feeling. I get anxiety from my dad. I was thinking about getting pills for my anxiety in July of 2012, but my mom doesn't want me medicated all the time and I don't want to be either. But should I? Sometimes my anxiety helps by like stopping me from saying certain things. And will it help this feeling go away? I just now feel like I'm in a coma because of that post and I feel sad...
Here's a reason why I'm scared of taking pills: For some reason, I feel like I'll be weird the first time i'll take them. Like I'll be all dizzy because I'll be feeling different. I just need help. Please help asap.
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Depersonalization has nothing to do with anything like being in a coma. Depersonalization is more like standing outside yourself and watching what is happening and not having anyway to do anything about it. This is a nutshell description and there is more to it than what I just put here.
Before you worry about what or how the medication may make you feel; you need to be properly diagnosed. Self diagnoses is almost 100% inaccurate. Make an appointment with your family doctor for a complete physical. You will need a complete physical to rule out any organic reason for how you are feeling before any diagnoses for Depersonalization will or can be made. Of course when you see your doctor tell him or her about why you feel you may be suffering from Depersonalization. Make a list of any symptoms you have, any traumas or life changes that have accrued. Bring this list with you to the doctor. It would also be a good Idea to have a friend or mom with you to listen to the doctor as a friend or mom will hear things you may miss.
IF you are diagnosed with Depersonalization the treatment is medication and psychotherapy generally with a psychologist for talk therapy. As for the medication, like all medication it will have a list of potential side effects. Just how you will react to this medication is unknown. You may not suffer at all from the side effects or if you do it will be as most to only for a few days as your body becomes accustomed to the medication. Should the side effects last longer than a few days your doctor will adjust the medication to reduce or eliminate the side affects.
You will not be walking around like some zombie. The drugs recommended for treatment are not the psychotropic drugs recommended for people suffering from bipolar disorder.
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I can assure you that you are not in a coma, because if you were, you would not be able to type this question in to us.
I know that there are people on meds for mental health issues, like a daughter of mine on depression meds. There is an adjustment period for some, getting used to a prescription, but it need not affect everyone.
If it stops as you say when you take your mind of it...then you need to do more of the same. Negative thinking could be causing the issues to continue to come back. Heres a link to a book I read recommended by a friend who had great results and had me read it to see if I thought it could help the daughter.
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If you want to try a drug free path first, then I advise you try this book first. But you have to be serious about reading it and going over chapters again a couple times to make sure you are getting what its saying and doing the exercises for you to follow in the book. If once you've completed it, you are still having issues with how your mind works and perceives things, show mom the book and tell her you've tried everything in there and it isn't helping and you want to go a doctor. I can't say what is going on for you. I am not a professional. But I do understand not wanting to take a path of medication without trying something else first. I am a proponant for seeking a natural cure first before seeing a specialist unless it's something like an emergency that needs special care like a heart pain or a broken bone.
Good luck dear.
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