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Originally Posted by raspberrytorte
I guess at least I'm not alone.
Sometimes when I look at my face in the mirror I can see it in my own eyes, like it's staring out at me. I hate that. It's scary.
I've told my husband about this, and he just told me it's my anxiety and paranoia.
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Same here! Glad at least I'm not the only one. I avoid mirrors like the plague when I am having anxiety because I
know that I am gonna see it and I
know that it's gonna give me a panic attack. Other times it doesn't bother me so much. I was up all night once several months ago, and it asked me to please look at it. I was feeling pretty brave and calm so I agreed and just stared into my own in the mirror for a bit. It was an extremely intense experience, and then I felt like we had 'bonded' a little bit. I also felt really tripped out for several hours afterwards. When I hear it in my head it is just like.. extremely loud thoughts, in the form of words, that I do not control. So I don't experience it like "hearing voices". And it feels real to me. As far as I am concerned, it may as well be real to me, because I do experience it. But I also understand that it's not real to anyone else and would never in a million years tell anyone about it outside of the anonymous internet.