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Offline Turtle88m

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quick question
« on: March 23, 2008, 02:00:07 AM »
Hello, If any of you have read my previous post you will know that I am currently suffering from intense derealiazation and intrusive thoughts. Some of you have said it is GAD. It probably is , I was diagnosed with it when I was younger but have suffered it up in till December of 07. My question is this. After reading other peoples post about there problems with GAD I have noticed that I don't have some of the symptoms they do. I am talking about the physical ones. I don't feel  numb or weak and I don't have heart palpitations. Also I don't feel the derealization the entire day. Just about 60 percent of it. I can go a couple hours feeling normal. Then it comes back again. I have relizied that this all started to go out of control when I stated reading about schizophrenia. After reading about it I experienced extreme anxiety. After that bout of anxiety the derealization started. So back to the question. Do different people suffer GAD in different degrees of intensity?
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Re: quick question
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 02:01:47 AM »
opps sorry about posting this in the wrong forum.
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Re: quick question
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2008, 05:20:54 PM »
Yes...some people have different effects.  Just read through the posts to see what other people go through.  You may recognize some things. 
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Re: quick question
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2008, 09:40:03 PM »
Schizophrenia has to do with delusions and hallucinations.  Your symptoms seem to be more related to anxiety since they occur after feeling anxious about something.  DP and DR are both considered anxiety symptoms, but can appear in other disorders.  They can even appear in healthy people when they don't get enough sleep.  Mostly, they appear during panic attacks and then disappear.  Sometimes they can linger.  As long as you don't have any other symptoms there's no reason to believe it is anything other than anxiety.  I think everybody gets this feeling from time to time but in people with anxiety the feeling tends to stay longer than usual.  DP and DR are basically defense mechanisms to help us cope with stressful situations, but it isn't a perfect process.  For someone that was abused as a child, they dissociate to help take the pain away.  But this could lead to other problems in life such as Dissociate Identity Disorder, or MPD, whatever you want to call it.  In anxiety, it is just yet another physical symptom.
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