Feeling detached/spacey today..Anxiety comedown? Any experiences? What can I do?

[pittguy578]

I have not had a serious problem with anxiety, but I was doing some research online regarding my spacey/detached feelings today and thought it may be related to anxiety? Here is my situation..

I do suffer from depression and have been on Wellbutrin and Ambien-obviously just the Wellbutrin duing the day-never had any problems with either medication with regards to side effects.

Today I woke up feeling very spacey/detached..very hard to explain. I have a ton of brain fog. I thought it may be related to some type of medication issue, but as I indicated above, never had any problems with those medications in terms of side effects other than cleaning and polishing shoes (Ambien) Never had any kind of "hangover" from it-it is a very short acting drug and is cleared from your system pretty quickly.

Then I stumbled upon something today that I had never heard of before..Anxiety letdown/comedown? I guess it can make you feel spacey/detached?
Yesterday was very stressful for a stupid reason-I was trying to install a part in my computer (new heat sink) and it took me 8 hours to do it-they were very stress filled hours..I thought I broke my computer, etc..and I was working on it until around 1 am last night-I had started at around 4-5 in the evening-I had so many things stress me out during that time period...couild not get it hooked up right..thought I broke my motherboard..then I was having trouble getting the "cords" in my case nice and neat-I was nearly in tears from exhaustiion and frustration. I was nearly in tears a number of times and was calling out to God to help me..I know..ridiculous.I started on it at around 5 PM..and didn't finish it up until close to one AM..as I said above, I was very stressed out by the process and should not have let it get to me like I did. It was one of the few times where I had constant serious stress for a number of hours straight..and then I went to bed right after feeling stressed.
Is this spacey/detached feeling anxiety comedown? I have never experienced anything like this before i.e. feeling detached from my body and foggy all day.
What is the best way to beat this? Anything I can take to help me through this? I want to be fine for work tomorrow-today was relatively stress free other than wondering what this weird feeling is...Any assistance is appreciated..

[pacman]

i think its depersonalization/dissociation/derealization/ most of us suffers from this thing, mostly when you are new to disorder. so don't worry much, we can recover from this. God bless.

[tigerpaw]

You may want to pick up a book by Claire Weeks, Hope and Help for Your Nerves, where she explains many of your symptoms.

[Daisy131]

i second tigerpaw. every person i know that has read the book felt like she wrote it for them. she covers everything.

i have experienced this as well; usually after panic or high anxiety i have these hangovers when i'm not exactly "attached" to things. it's a very strange feeling, but once you know what it is, it doesn't scare you and create that second fear (which starts the pattern all over again).