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Originally Posted by Nikki O.
Hi, so I'm getting overworked at work with hardly any reward (working 7 days straight with only 8 hours OT) These feelings have happened before at random or from random stress. Warning: I may feel like this now but later I may feel differently about the same problem and see things from a different view that makes it seem like I'm making this all up! Be gentle please 
Main problems in no particular order and isn't limited to just these things either:
1. Feeling like I'm minutes from death. So its like I'm about to die and that this is the last thing I'm ever going to see.
2. Looking in the mirror and it's like it's not me. So I try to stand and just look at myself to get a sense of it but it doesn't work.
3. When I talk it doesn't sounds like it's my voice and sometimes it's like I'm talking abundantly similar to my sister, I look up to her a lot and try to be as amazing as her but, I don't intentionally try to take her attitude like that. Also I feel like I am just playing the part and say what I am supposed to say.
4. These are really affecting me, they are more consistent:
- When I look at items, usually a moving item that doesn't create sound, it seems to make it's own noise in my head. A noise unique to that item or thing.
-Then things that make sounds especially a vacuum cleaner, microwave, fish tank, when I swallow and other things I can't think of right now, sound like incoherent voices.
These are the things I don't know good coping techniques too. So I am looking for some advice! I would really love it if you could write advice for each of the 4 issues and number them likewise.
I have more problems but I want to start dealing with these first.
Thank-you for reading this.  |
we cant tell you what will work for you but can tell you what words for us...
(using your examples)...
in me number 1 is called a panic attack. Tools I use... breathing, positive self talk / affirmations... (breath, I am ok, breath, I am just having a panic attack, i am ok, breath, just keep breathing, breath, sunshine imagine I am out in the warm bright sunshine, breath.....)
In me number 2 is called normal perception difficulties due to having MS (a physical health problem that I have) Tools I use ...I close my eyes and remind myself what I am seeing may not be the same in my "minds eye" we all view ourselves different depending upon our moods and at the moment my minds eye is viewing me differently than what is reality. its just the meds and MS now open my eyes and focus on reality not my mental image/hallucination.
in me number 3 is called genetics. I sound just like some of my siblings and parents sometimes depending upon my moods, what words I am using and how I am saying those words. my brother says the word hello by saying hullo, I say hello and my southern sister says helloyall or hiyall. the result sometimes I say hullo sometimes I say hello and sometimes I say helloyall or hiyall. the tool I use is when I find I am talking like my relatives I breath and remind myself to talk like me,
in me number 4 is called hallucinations. I have many problems that can cause a person to have psychosis (hallucinations or delusions) like MS, bipolar disorder, depression, and medications that can cause me to have visual and auditory hallucinations. the tool I use here is contacting my treatment providers. they make medication changes/adjustments and Im soon back on track.