I sometimes feel like I can't decipher reality or fantasy and I becoming very obsesed.Is this psychosis?
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Sounds like OCD to me. Most OCDs have vivid dreams of terrible things happening to others or loved ones and can't decipher what is real or not. This in turn causes them to obsess and eventually leads to the compulsions to try to calm the obsessions. OCD is very often comorbid with Bipolar disorder. Even when on meds and treating bipolar effectively, one can still transition over to OCD, especially if the depression episodes are severe. Talk to your psychiatrist and therapist about this. Chances are you'll have to take more meds.
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I believe you should go see ur doc. To understand whats going on and why you feel the way you do.
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Absolutely!  There are too many unknowns out there to dismiss life's mysteries (like ghosts or aliens).  I think we all have felt very strange and unique impulses that we couldn't truly define, which when acted upon helped us either avoid bad situations (like choosing a different route to work that helped us avoid an accident) or feeling like something good was about to happen and then running into an old friend.  \n\nIf this type of stuff interests you, you should read the book The Celestine Prophecy.  It's a fiction book that helps bring home how few coincidences there are in life.  In other words, most things are supposed to happen for a reason.  It's a fun read that won't take more than the weekend.  \n\nLastly, I don't know what "astral projection" is, but I'm going to Google it and check it out.
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Sometimes my life flashes by, faster than the speed of light (it seems).\nI start to reflect on my life, my beliefs, my future, my past, then I move on to my inner existential angst, my thoughts and questions about this world and this universe, how small and insignificant I am in this great, big, empty void, and how I keep drowning and struggling in an ocean of possibilities, a vast spread of questions, I don't know where to begin.\nI get this sick feeling in my stomach thinking about Life. It's like...indescribeable. It happens oh so often, and I find myself sometimes trying to stay awake to avoid thinking about things that torment me.\n\nOn some days my brain is merciful and I try to distract myself with thoughts of something exciting I would do the next day when truly, I would just like to sit and ponder, and ask God, if He exists, why?\n\nJenova\n(d.yuffie@gmail.com)
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Hi. I have RP also. I am 35 years old and was diagnosed when I was 22. I had always been nearsighted and struggled with imperfect vision, so when I got the diagnosis - it did not really have an immediate impact on me. Now, however, I am really struggling in so many ways. Of course, there is the obvious - not being able to drive anymore - but there are many other things that have changed for me as well. I feel isolated both physically and emotionally from the rest of the world and I find that it takes so much more effort and determination to do just the normal things. I suffer socially in most situations because I bump into things and people, I trip over people's children - hurting them,  neglect to shake someones hand when it is held out for me (because I can't see it), and cannot often even follow the most mundane activities because visual cues usually guide most activities. I am exhausted from having to explainn all the time, and even though I don't want special attention - I worry that people see me as demanding it if I try to explain too much. As a result, I no longer feel like I am a part of the normal world and I often choose to remove myself from social situations. It is just exhausting, and most days, I don't have the strength to deal with it.\n\nAlso related to the issue of feeling isolated is the way people relate to you once they know you can't see much in front of your nose. I think that although most people are very well intentioned, they cannot help but be over solicitous. They start treating you differently - like something fragile, broken, or they just act afraid to say or do the wrong thing. Sometimes I get the impression that some people are uncomfortable just to even be near me. Maybe they are afraid it is contagious. Another oddity I have found is that I have often felt the pressure to be a spokesperson for blind people - needing to explain to people that, yes, blind people can actually have regular jobs, be married, have children etc. \n\nThose close to me have reacted in differing ways. My husband is very loving and supportive but totally in denial and cannot seem to remember to stop trying to hand me things - holding them out for me to grab. Drives me nuts. To my kids, I am just mom, but I think it frightens them to see me become so dependent. They forget to warn me of stairs, doorways, cars, you name it when we are out together in unfamiliar places. As a result, I am always falling, crashing into things and hurting myself.  Onlookers just think I must be mentally deficient or something. I have a sister in law who won't acknowledge my eye problem. She told me "I don't want to hear about it - there must be something you can do!" She thinks talking about it means I am whining about it. Yet another relative told me that I needed more faith in God to be cured and because I am still losing vision, my faith is not strong enough. Still other relatives open every conversation with "How are your eyes?" as if there is no more to me than my eye problem. I feel like saying, "Fine, how are your bowels?"\n\nI still work, but only marginally. Because we live in a small town, I am pretty much confined to working from home.  I do some contracting work for a news monitoring company but it is very low paying work. In the past, I was a professional with a college degree - now I am barely able to make $400 per month. This is bad for the self esteem.\n\nThe state I live in has special services for people who are visually impaired. They'll set you up with adaptive aids and teach you how to put raised stickers on your stove so you don't overheat the mashed potatoes, but there is nothing anywhere that can teach you how to be a blind person. From A-Z, I need to relearn absolutely everything and there is no resource for that. \n\nAs far as how I am doing - I am angry, frustrated and feeling utterly isolated. There are days when I feel completely useless and there ar
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YEAH, AT TIMES I FEEL LIKE I LIVE IN MY OWN WORLD SORROUNDED BY CLONES OF MYSELF...IM QUITE A THINKER YOU KNOW! VERY QURIOUS ABOUT GOD'S CREATIONS, AT TIMES I'D ASK MYSELF IS IT CRAZY TO QUESTION SOME OF THE STUFF AROUND...I THINK IM LOOSING IT NOW...
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i'm inside me, and it's the only way i know.  \n\nwhat's normal for me might feel totally 'abnormal' to you.  \n\nif you'd like to 'trade' for awhile and see... :)
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Happens to me all the time.  I feel like I am loosing my mind sometimes.  I was taking medication for years and that really did a number on my mind.  I am off the meds and finally able to sometimes remember 5 min ago.\n\nWait....what am I saying....I forgot...oh bother...
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That is far too little info posted to make that determination...but if you feel the fantasies are interfering with your everyday life or are keeping you from pursuing healthy realities, speak with a professional. They will help you work out your doubts.
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well it is in theory. its called confusion, when u dont know what u want. happend to me quite a bit.
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Maybe it is some kind of hallucination.. You may wish to see a psychologist about it. Certain illness might trigger it..
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Sounds like a sociopathic or narcisstic personality disorder. HOWEVER, the mere fact that you recognize those symptoms and fear having them is a definite positive for you because that means you are aware and will do all you can to educate yourself and get help if indeed you start having those symptoms. I believe you will do fine.
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Strangers to Our Selves\n\nWhen your world seems strange and you've lost your sense of self, you'll be hard pressed finding a name for your affliction. But there is one "Depersonalization Disorder", and it's nothing new. \n\n \n\nIt may happen when you first wake up, or while flying on an airplane or driving in your car. Suddenly, inexplicably, something changes. Common objects and familiar situations seem strange, foreign. Like you've just arrived on the planet, but don't know from where. It may pass quickly, or it may linger. You close your eyes and turn inward, but the very thoughts running through your head seem different. The act of thinking itself, the stream of invisible words running through the hollow chamber of your mind, seems strange and unreal. It's as if you have no self, no ego, no remnant of that inner strength which quietly and automatically enabled you to deal with the world around you, and the world inside you. It may settle over time, into a feeling of "nothingness", as if you were without emotions, dead. Or the fear of it may blossom into a full-blown panic attack. But when it hits for the first time, you're convinced that you're going insane, and wait in a cold sweat to see when and if you finally do go over the edge.\n\nMore info at link below....;
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I think a lot of people feel that way from time to time! I have felt that way when I was having anxiety or depression. It is kind of an detach feeling, or a feeling of unreality. If you are feeling this way often than you might want to talk to your doctor! \n\nI hope you feel better soon!!! Best wishes to you!
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This sounds like a feeling I get every now and then.  I never told the doctor about it but I do suffer from panic and anxiety disorder.
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Sort of. Sometimes I know when i'm dreaming and I try to wake myself up but I feel like I can't move or talk. I'll lay there for a few minutes struggling with myself until I finally snap out of it abruptly. It's really strange.
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My lack of a brain at times.