The symptoms from the 5 previous concussions were all the same with a headache, some nausea, and maybe some dizziness. However, my last concussion was a lot different. As soon as I got hit in the head, I had a lot of ringing in my ears and had confusion and shortly after, the derealization began to start. I had very bad anxiety trying to dealing with this from that day until around 2 months later. I was desperately searching the internet searching for other people who had this feeling and if it would go away when I came upon this thread.
Reading these comments made my anxiety so much worse because I was reading these stories about how their derealization hadn't gone away for years and were still dealing with it and I never thought I would return back to normal. I just want anyone that comes upon this thread with a similar story to mine or anyone with derealization to know that IT CAN go away.
For me it took around 2 and a half months for it to really go away. The brain is a slow healing organ and it does not go away instantly like I was and I'm sure you are hoping for. It takes time. It's very scary I know because everything feels unreal or like a dream, but you have to do your best to try and push through it. The more you do this the better it's gonna help you. You CAN get better and I know it's very hard to believe that you will, but there are plenty or people out there including myself who have gotten better out there and returned to normal.
And for the people who have commented on this thread and have had derealization for years, I have the upmost and tremendous respect for you. It feels like a nightmare every second of every single day and the fact that you all go out and live your lives or even if you don't is incredible. This was by far one of the hardest or the hardest thing I have ever gone through in my life both emotionally and physically.
I know how difficult it is to really explain to people how it feels and it's impossible for someone to really understand how it feels unless they have gone through it themselves.
So again, the fact that you all choose to go out and live your lives with this is ridiculously brave. I just want to help people that come to this thread understand that their lives aren't over and that there is hope. If anyone ever wants someone to talk to about this or how they are feeling feel free to email me at adam gmail. This is tuff. Did you have bad days and good days thank u. Thanks Adam.
These posts usually just add to the anxiety because the comments are from people who are in the midst of it but they don't post again when they recover. I am grateful for the hope that you have given me by your comments. Sometimes hope is all you need. Wow this was such an incredible read and very calming.
I just came across this thread because I woke up from a nightmare and I tend to have really vivid negative dreams all the time since my brain surgery 4 months ago. Your words are not only profound for 18 but uplifting and very understanding of the people potentially reading it. I appreciate you going back after coming out of DR and making a post! Thank you. My daughter 17 just recently had a door hit the back of her head last week. Just the corner caught the back of her head as it swung closed.
A year prior she was thrown ftom a horse and had only pain. No nausea a little dizziness but sge was fine. After this recent injury she started feeling disconnected and neither of us had any idea this happens. Still worried but more at ease now. I have exactly this, depersonalisation and decentralisation.
I must be in a smaller catergory because I simply do not feel stress. My focal area of my brain took a hit in a car accident and I suffered a Diffuse Axional Injury and maybe a hypoxia injury. Witnesses said they approached the car and they thought I was dead and after sometime let out a gasp and then they heard me breath. I was out for 40minutes.
A guy described this issue like being stuck in a 70s martial arts movie where the video is grainy and the audio is dubbed and not synced. I thought this was a spot on description. One of my ears has a really high scratching sound and the my vision also got damaged which most likely explains for a lot of the DP and DC. I'm basically tired all the time. Which I want to feel. Interesting article and thanks for sharing, Emilie. The ego, I've learned, is so important for us to function on this plane.
It separates us from others, it gives us an identity, it's what kids don't have yet. And this funny feeling you're describing I was like a little child. I can't wait to get my book out, the journals I kept during my 20 year recovery. In that was held my memories, my gut feelings, etc. It's like your brain work has to be connected a your person, in order to make it work for you. And that identity, is your precious ego. So many Eastern thinkers say get past your ego.
Absolutely not! You seem to be describing a way to "change yourself" in order to fit into a system of "ego" that obviously hasn't worked for a few thousand years? Stepping back, sitting down and finding "your place" might take a long, long time but scurrying around as fast as you can to "feel good"?
Apply that to 6 billion people with such "flare" as you describe we would all be in deep shit. Who would lead, you or my ego? We would have too battle it out I guess see who wins the ego challenge? I live this exactly. I felt so alone not hearing about anyone with these affects. I'm so sorry you all have gone through this as well.
I am thirteen, and suffered a traumatic brain injury at age No one saw me get it but some classmates, so my parents thought I just hit my head and got a bloody nose. Instead, I was sprinting on a new gym floor, and tripped over someone, and hit my head hard. I don't remember after that, for I had lost consciousness.
I rolled and hit my head 3 times. I know this from classmates later telling me. No doctor could see anything wrong, but I know it was a bad concussion because I had intense confusion after that and could not walk straight for days. Plus, I did not know my way around the school, and happened to gain new musical ability. To this day, I do not feel normal, everything feels so surreal.
Thank you for is article so much. I have finally found some answers to why I feel this way. I can't find the words of appreciation and relief I feel find your site. I'm in my early sixties and have battled mental illness my entire life, however, at the age of eleven I suffered a head injury that went untreated. I've always had episodes of this feeling of being unhinged or as if I was watching a movie, and always disconnected to what I was seeing. It has been very unnerving and troublesome, I've been misdiagnosed as bi-polar, and now I'm wondering about the diagnoses of clinical depression?
I found your site and your experience and others FITS to a tee exactly what happens when I have 'episodes' and now I have something I feel I can explore.
SO, thank you for sharing what I know is a difficult situation to put out there, bless you and I'll keep exploring.
Hope this helps someone. It can be very bad in the initial stages of recovery. In my first 3 conscience and remembered days, I seriously didn't believe I was in a real hospital even though I had significant physical injuries, as well as a serious concussion. I thought that someone was playing an elaborate practical joke on me, that the hospital room, nurses, doctors, and my physical injuries were all being faked somehow.
If you have experienced anything like this after a concussion, you're not crazy. It was because of the brain injury. I expected to wake up in bed and I opened my eyes and was in another room. I had no idea where i was.
They had put a sign on the wall in front of me saying that I was In a hospital, I had been in a car accident. I had a really bad drug overdose. I was depressed, I took 16, dollars worth of methadone and xanax, chased it down with liquor, and laid down to go to sleep. I stopped breathing and choked on my own vomit. Spent a week and a half on life support. When I finally came to, I was asking my mom and dad where my grandpa was, he has been dead since , but I remember having a conversation with him.
He told me to get my ass back to my mama it was not my time to go. Since all of that, I have a hard time distinguishing reality from my dreams. It scares me. Arlington, VA E-mail Phone: Emilie Godwin, PhD. Brain Inj ; — J Neuropsych Clin N ; Please share with staff at Bryn Mawr Rehab, esp. Same here. Life is daily, never forget. Perspective is everything. Right now, many of the patterns we know and love have been obliterated.
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Did you know? Examples of surreal in a Sentence Despite all the hassle, though, I would not want an ordinary name. I know of one other person in the world who shares my name, first and last. I know nothing about her except that she lived in New York at the same time I did, and that she and I subscribed to a few of the same publications. I found myself in the surreal position of having to explain to circulation departments that I was, in fact, me, and not that other version of me on the West Side.
The over-the-top, surreal dance numbers in nearly every Bollywood film often make no sense in relation to the story, but no one seems to be complaining. Improbably, its wacked-out premise and structural hilarity concoct a melancholy meditation on love, loss, and memory, while delivering a message—subversive to our culture's therapeutic optimism—about the tragedy of healing.
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