WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS: DE-REALIZATION AND DEPERSONALIZATION
De-Realization
This means not feeling in touch with reality, and feeling
This can happen when anxiety levels are high. People who have never had drugs can also suffer this. Perhaps this is the main symptom that induces feelings of going mad. People feel they are not real, not in touch with themselves, and worry that their mental processes are going to break down completely. ‘I look in the mirror I know it’s me, but it does not look like me—I don’t really recognize my image.’
strange in familiar surroundings. People say ‘I walk into my kitchen and it does not look like my kitchen’. Some people say ‘How can it be anxiety. I am happy about cutting down my pills, and there is nothing in my life to make me anxious’. Even if this is so, your body (and therefore your mind) may still be in a state of stress because of withdrawal. Learn to relax and these feelings will disappear.
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