u/Exact-Arrival4102

I’ve been experiencing DPDR for a month now and this is horrible! I feel like I’m losing my mind every single day and the symptoms keep shifting and this is so overwhelming I don’t feel real anymore I don’t feel present my thoughts and dreams are more real than reality, I have this weird feeling where I feel like I’m going to fall out of my body or through the ground and it’s so overwhelming and scary along with being unable to be present. Now I also have a fear of having ALS at 19 years old because my hands and feet feel like weirdly tense and weak? if anyone could share their symptoms and if you had a similar experience to me please do! I feel so overwhelmed and hopeless! It has moments where it’s better and then it gets worse again!

Week 3 of dealing with DPDR and my symptoms have shifted again, I feel like my depth perception is off and sometimes everything looks bigger or smaller, everything feels sort of unsteady like the earth could just start dropping or spinning at any moment or I could just fall through the ground, sometimes I’m worried that I have dementia because my memory is so bad and I feel so off, sometimes it’s hard to recall what day or month it is, I also overall just feel very disconnected from reality still I know it’s reality but I’m having a lot of scary existential thoughts and my mind just never stops racing and it feels like I’m living two lives kind of one in my head and one real one and the one in my mind is more present and I just start thinking about wild things and wild possibilities and scenarios and I’m just scared I’ll lose my mind or something. I got some medication and it’s helping slightly but still feel like I’m losing my mind or I’ll lose touch with reality permanently. Did anyone else experience all these symptoms?? Please let me know!

Recently, my DPDR has shifted into a state of uncertainty and a sense of being an alien. if I’m playing a game or just in public and observing people’s interactions, it feels completely foreign to me. This has been a persistent issue for a while now.

Additionally, I’ve developed a new fear of losing my mind and experiencing hallucinations. I imagine the world crumbling, falling through the ground, or everything spinning and dropping. I also fear falling into an endless black void, free-falling forever. Just thinking about these scenarios makes me motion sick!

Furthermore, I have a constant feeling of being disconnected from the present moment and grounded. These experiences are non-stop and overwhelming, and it’s terrifying.

If you’ve experienced any of these symptoms and have recovered, I would greatly appreciate any recovery tips you could share.

I’ve had DPDR for about two weeks now and the symptoms keep shifting, my newest symptom is genuinely feeling like I’m in a simulation and the ground is gonna open up beneath me and swallow me and I’ll end up in a black void free falling forever or the world is gonna start spinning or falling and never stop. Did anyone else experience this and does it go away? Basically scared of having a psychotic episode and never coming back, it’s terrible at night but better during the day.

just sharing my experience with dpdr and my symptoms so hopefully someone can relate and tell me they improved just to bring me comfort.
- feeling like I’m in a simulation, like nothing is real
- uncoordinated? not sure how to describe it but I felt like I wasn’t able to do a task properly and id have this weird tripping sensation or this feeling like I was about to phase through whatever I grabbed or just the floor in general
- floaty feeling
- some very scary existential thoughts about the universe
- just genuinely feeling like I’m going to lose my mind every single day, very bad at night
- visual glitches, black dots, shadows, black waves, flickers
- auditory hallucinations when I first woke up like vintage chatter and over my ac I heard like noise as if I was in a restaurant or rhythmic noises
- very disconnected from my body
- confused and out of it especially when going to sleep and waking up
- familiar people look unfamiliar
- intense fear of a black void opening up beneath my feet and I just start free falling forever
- fear the world is just gonna unanchor and start spinning or dropping
- lost in thoughts
- losing sense of self
- tinnitus
there’s probably more but that’s all I can think of right now, please let me know if u relate to these symptoms, it’s really hard to live with it’s been two weeks for me now and knowing someone can relate to all these symptoms and improve will make it more bearable!