I feel like I'm not here

Hey guys! I sorta feel the same way. I'm 19 and this has been going on for about 2 months. I feel what everyone is describing but i also have a couple other symptoms. When i get the feelings of no completely being there, if i focus on it too much i get like a little lightheaded. Also, if i stare at something too long, the picture gets a tiny bit distoted. I feel crazy like someone is gonna put me in a mental hospital when im not really crazy. Good luck guys!

same its like im ina day dream

yea im 17 and i tried spice one time and i did two hits and now i feel like im not real and my vision is kind of messed up and i get really bad head ache when it happens also i feel like im going to throw up please if you know anything help me :(

Guys, for all of your problems, go to a mental health professional and ask for Zyprexa or also known as Olanzapine. That may help loads of you! GL!

Hi I am a 26 female and have been feelin this same way since I was 17 im tryin to learn to live with it is really scarey I always feel like im guna die I feel like im not here but I kno I am I could be doin something but dnt feel like its me like im jus a spirit walking around my docter juss put me on zolof after this whole time and im juss praying I get better but im always scared...

It could be depersonalization disorder... Look it up?

I wonder if it's a case of low-dose withdrawal from Benzodiazepine, as it does sound like one of the symptoms

Hey. I use to live how you did and had the same experience from smoking, in a sense. Anyway, I know life is tough and you really do not feel right. But Wherever you are and whomever you are there is an answer out there to get better and to figure out what your life's purpose is. I know you have probably heard this before but im telling you, if you just give up your life to God, really really pray to Him and ask Him for help and just let it out to Him. Jesus is there for you. He is. Ill be praying for you and I hope you pray as well, trust me when I say your life will be changed

I know this was posted over a year ago, but for those of you who are reading this now over a google search and feel the exact same way, I'd like to explain this a bit. What you all seem to be going through is depersonalization, a very common symptom of constant anxiety and stress. Basically put, the brain kind of shuts out all emotions and begins to protect the core 'you'. This is nothing to be scared about! The way I cured my depersonalization and derealization (when your surroundings feel unreal - another common symptom of anxiety) was by first accepting that I had it. Then, I just stopped thinking about it. This is obviously not as easy as it sounds, so I would suggest looking up online how to change your thinking pattern (there are tons of articles online), and immediately going outside. Walk around, find a new hobby, begin socializing. It will be weird at first, and you may feel unsure of yourself, but if you keep working at it, it will get better. I wish you all the best of luck! lique11[at]yahoo[dot]com

I am 28, male,  and have been dealing with this since I was very young, maybe 8th grade??? I tried to tell people about it, and describe it. I told my parents, I told my doctors, I told a psychologist... They all gave me the same blank stare, said that it sounded awful, and then basically shrugged and said they had no idea, and so I have left many doctors offices still living in hell while they all go on with their normal happy lives and not give me and my 24/7 torment another thought..But, being unusually self-aware and persistent, I have put my body through many different experiments over the past 10 years and I have indeed found things that help, even things that seemed to cure, as well as things that do not work... and some more general insight....First, let me tell you that I do indeed believe that this problem is exacerbated by anxiety and depression. Yet, in my case, it took 8 years to finally ask myself, "but where is the anxiety and depression coming from?"  Well, there are many answers to that, and many medications, and many sources of anxiety and depression were things that i found i could work on - things like personality quirks, lack of confidence, lack of social skills, etc... I had to just keep trying to get better and better and eventually after awhile these problems went away (sometimes after years of trying, but just don't give up) but I never dealt with the biggest culprit, in fact I never really gave the "elephant in the room" much notice at all -- the elephant in the room is STRESS.  Yes, after 10 years I finally believe the root of all evil is stress (including that feeling that you are in a dream, or stoned, or drunk) and I discovered there are a lot of great ways to reduce stress.So I think the answer to most of your problems, if you are like me, is to focus 100 percent on battling STRESS!! First and foremost in your arsenal against stress is to learn how to clear your mind and do some meditation.. I would recommend reading up on a Buddhist meditation technique known as "Mindfulness." You won't ever have to become great at it (though many of you might WANT to become great at it) but even in my first time just practicing how to do it, it cleared my mind and woke me up from that dream. It felt great. I don't use it as much as I should but it helps knowing I can always force myself to sit down, do the darned thing for 10 minutes and have a good chance of feeling much better afterwards... Another person on here spoke of how he tries to shift his thinking from the area behind/directly above the eyes, to the top of his forehead or head so that he was almost trying to change the area of the brain that he was using to think with... I think that is also great advice if it works for you.The next most important thing you can do, (this is maybe more important than meditating but takes far longer and many ups and downs, and good and bad days) is to exercise! Cardio, TONS of cardio, and weights, and swimming too if you like (swimming can also be wonderful at healing muscle problems, just make sure to youtube swimming techniques and take those techniques seriously and practice your form or else you can mess up your shoulders after awhile like I almost did - they are great now after I started working on technique)  You will have to work up enough stamina to do cardio for longer than 40 minutes - you should preferably do an hour straight or more. I used to feel like my lungs were about to explode but trust me, you do get used to it and eventually exercise starts to feel really good and does not hurt your lungs at all but you have to push yourself to that point... An hour of good cardio almost always clears the brain right up for the day... Try joining a gym and using the elliptical machine -- if you are embarrassed to go or embarrassed to wear gym clothes try going super early in the morning, or else an hour and a half before they close and just shower off at home.. Or just force yourself to go and eventually you do get used to it and just stop giving a crap what people think!This brings me to the next significant thing you can do, which is to lose weight, and I mean ALL your extra weight.. Fat produces harmful hormones and those hormones are probably part of the problem that messes up our systems and our brain function so get rid of that fat like it is a parasite on your body! The more fat you have, the more significant your brain fog might be! If you are not overweight yet still have this problem, just ignore this part and go down to where I talk about Rhodiola Rosea.For weight loss - Personally, nothing has ever worked better than just eating once a day.. I could eat whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted and drink whatever I wanted, but i could only eat once a day no exceptions and soon enough, after a couple weeks of feeling rough, I got used to it and never thought about food anymore, in fact some days i would forget to eat my 1 meal... At first you will be going a bit crazy and eating entire pizza's for your one meal but just stick to it cause it is all about getting rid of the food cravings and getting used to saying no to food... eventually your one meals get smaller and smaller as you get used to it and get more motivated to lose weight. When you get to your goal weight, begin eating twice a day instead... Allow yourself to cheat on your diet for holidays, vacations, special occasions or situations where it is socially awkward to not eat.  (or do whatever works for you!!)Some people might think that this is bad strategy and they will say all sorts of things about starvation mode and gaining the weight back and the supposed dangers of skipping meals etc... but it ALWAYS works for me when the lbs creep on and I want to lose it... I first lost 70 lbs in 9th grade doing this over the summer, worth it, and the lbs never crept back on until after highschool when i injured my back and could not exercise anymore for 4 years until i rehabilitated it by swimming... Every diet is about restricting calories so restrict them any way you want, you wont gain weight back unless you eat it back... But I digress... Next, this one is really easy and really important... Purchase and then consume a good quality herbal supplement called Rhodiola Rosea - it is an adaptogen that helps the body deal with stress. It really works (one of the few herbal supplements that I have found to actually do anything). It works sort of like a mild anti-depressant and anti-anxiolytic. But be SURE to talk to your doctor if you are on other meds for Anxiety/Depression.. There are not any known drug interactions that I am aware of but it is speculated that Rhodiola Rosea might work by inhibiting monoamine oxidase, or more commonly known as an MAOI - and for those of you who are on medications you might recall always seeing all sorts of warnings about taking medications if you are on an MAOI cause you can really harm or kill yourself by mixing MAOI's with other anti-depressants or anti-anxiolytics by causing something called a "serotonin storm" among other problems, so just check it out first!  ---- I highly recommend your supplement just be the ground up, dry herb, not an extract. Extracts just don't seem to work with this plant. Take it twice a day - after about a week to 3 weeks you might begin noticing yourself smiling all the time for no apparent reason, welcome to a taste of the good life!  Also, I personally take Ginkgo Biloba twice a day as well.Lastly, I will throw in a few things I tried that did not seem to do anything or help, or sometimes made things worse.Avoid stimulants -- think very carefully about taking things like ritalin or adderall, they might make you feel great and think clearly but if your problem is stemming from anxiety, there is a good chance that adderall will be a ticking timebomb for your psychological health. Also, it is shown to be bad for the brain and may cause some brain damage when taken long term. It also is horrible for people with sleep problems, which might not happen to some of you younger kids on here, but as you get older it affects sleep much more and losing sleep will TOTALLY make the problem worse so I just have not found it to be a permanent solution and the bad side effects from it tend to creep up on you until next thing you know you are acting like an emotional wreck and seem like a totally different person...Avoid caffeine (also a stimulant obviously but since it is not treated as a drug I separated it from the paragraph above.) - If you can go without it, then never take it... If you MUST have some to get you going, really try to limit it to no more than a half a cup of coffee a day, or maybe a whole cup with plenty of water afterwards... I pour half a cup of coffee into a mug and the rest of it I fill with water and for some reason this helps me not feel so out of it when i drink coffee - more so than just drinking water afterwards - very possibly might just be all in my head but I will throw that out there anyway.Also, I tried working on this problem from a health perspective for many years, I did the following either at the same time, or in different stages and have tried various combinations: I have gone: all organic, all vegetarian, all vegan, all-fruit diet, all vegetable diet, all raw food, juice fasting (2 weeks), water fasting (30 days)I have found that for me personally, none of it really made a difference except that I felt the best when I WAS eating meat for sure, especially red meat. In fact being vegetarian and vegan DRASTICALLY made my anxiety and depression worse. I found that Olive Leaf Extract helps more than anything else for sickness, I found that if I take non-drowsy allergy pills every day and an aspirin it greatly helps reduce inflammation (which, from physically healthy perspective, is also the root of all evils!) I found that squeezing fresh lemon into a glass of water every morning helps my liver to work better, and cures acid reflux. Also just eating healthy and making sure i get enough vitamin D, vitamin E (from nuts, not supplements for this one) calcium, and magnesium and selenium has been good for my overall health - which is important for mental health.  Other than those things though, i did not find too many other things in that whole natural foods scene. I still keep an eye out for new things though cause when you do find something good, like Rhodiola Rosea, it can change your life! But I figured I would throw in those experiences since it allllll stemmed from me setting out on a journey to cure my "mental fog" and in case any of you decide to go on that journey as well, hopefully what i discovered will help save you some time and effort... But every body is different so maybe some things that did not work for me, will be fine for you - who knows.Basically with the whole health thing, I learned that as long as you restrict your calories, make an effort to eat fresh fruits and vegetables and nuts, and just do common sense things you should be pretty good. I don't believe you have to be an extreme health nut, I have learned that the body is pretty impressively good at filtering out toxins and things that your body does not need. It does it all on it's own everyday. I am not advocating junk food or bad diets, just common sense and restraint when it comes to junk food and maybe half your diet from raw foods...So good luck everybody. I know I wrote a lot but for those of you who are serious about this problem, like I was, then some of this stuff might help and I did not want to keep it to myself... Just remember that some things can take a long time before you start noticing a difference. Keep at it though and don't miss any days of taking that Rhodiola Rosea!!

I'm sorry but if you are completely convinced that you can control the future and that the government can control people's emotions with gas released into the atmosphere then what you have sounds much more like schizophrenia than depersonalization / derealization. You should see a psychologist immediately.

Hey man as weird as this sounds I have had the same problem but I have been smoking marijuana for about 5 months I would say now.. I Don't see life as funny any more every thing is boring and dull pretty much exactly how you explained it. I was wondering if you found a solution to your problem it would be much needed I just wanna feel normal again. Thanks Blake!

wow!.. i feel the same way, and I also just turned 17.. i feel like idk who i am and everything around me is just happening.. like if the world i knew is is fake,

i get it too. i have it right now. i had it on the first day of school and worse on the second, its either nerves or no sleep

hey how long did it take to overcome this?