
May 22, 2017, 03:31 PM
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Member Since: Jan 2015
Location: California Uber Alles
Posts: 9,150
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Originally Posted by hammerklavier
Maybe this is just under the general category of brain fog, but either due to medications, negative symptoms, or both, I feel like when I am in new settings I can't practically or aesthetically appreciate them enough. The aesthetics of it is probably a product of anhedonic apathy, but I'll be in a less familiar place and feel that while looking around, I just can't "know" the place. The images around me slip out of my memory the moment they enter it, and my visual and spatial sense feels like its buried under lead. There is nothing wrong with my eyes. I have a feeling that it is something I tend to experience, but that it gets worsened with a certain dosage of antipsychotics. I take risperidone 3 milligrams. However, last year when I was off meds, I had a similar problem where I felt like I couldn't be assured that my surroundings were tangibly there. Off the meds it feeds into a mild existential paranoia, and on the meds it just feels like I can't "breath in" enough info about my surroundings. I live in a location with a lot of trees and for aesthetic purposes, when walking in the park I often move my gaze up the trunks to the tops, hoping that I can get a feeling for the depth and substance of the world around me. Maybe its a bit of an OCD thing.
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I have something very similar to this and I call it 'derealization.'
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