Anybody Else Suffer From Derealization?

I was just wondering if there are people here who suffer from just derealization. I just wanted to know if you have anything that helps you manage it.

What do you mean "not caused by mental illness"? Other than medication or illegal drugs, how else would one experience it?
You're in the DID/DD forum (which if you want to look at it technically, those are NOT illnesses of the brain or mind, but creative coping skills to survive the onslaught of trauma), so... I'm sorry, I don't understand your premise...?
I want to... I just need more info...

I'm like so used to it finally I guess. I don't know if this is the same, but....To me, it's like reality melts into unreality...much like a got enclosed in an alternate bubble. Familiar becomes unfamiliar and impossible. It's like I'm in another dimension where physics as we know it doesn't apply, nothing makes sense. The understanding of atomic structure fades away to where materials are like unreal. A red item is just a red item, not what it really is. It's like watching a real life sci-FI movie of another reality from a 3rd person.

I usually go "here we go again" and watch out of boredom waiting for it to pass. I start focusing on items, words, objects mentally noting its particulars. Even getting out walking around and absorbing the enviroment helps it feel real after a bit.

Sometimes I can be in my house but feel like I'm totally like in a strange place. I know the stuff is mine, but yet I have no connection to it.

that was a good explanation, Always.
Things for me become flat - like cut outs on a theater set. or things that I know everyday suddenly have no meaning. Or I have no body to inhabit and wonder if it is real or just another cut-out cardboard thing moving on its own. Sometimes things will roll that aren't supposed to (the floor) or breathe that shouldn't (the wall)... or the words people say are just noise. I see their mouths moving and I hear sound, but it's all gpoiuialk eourpjs pouafjet with no comprehension.
sometimes it really scares me- like when my really ill cat came staggering into the kitchen (as I was having an episode) and I thought he was already dead and was a zombie cat and I was scared - EVEN tho I knew it wasn't real. It was real. I ran into the living room, covered my face, and cried and cried, telling myself it wasn't real.

Sadly, I don't know how to manage it - other than ride it out... or repeat "it's not real" and where you are; the date, your name - facts that you can get grounded in.

That's what I do. I just repeat that I'm safe. I'm okay. Where I am. Things I know. I just keep talking to myself til it passes.

For me things feel very ethereal, glowy, the walls wave/wiggle, and the floor moves up and down. It downright scares me everytime but I try to stay with stating simple facts and focusing on one certain point.

Armadillo Roll welcome to the dissociative disorders forum. here in america derealization can be caused by many different things....stress, anxiety, ...I even experienced derealization symptoms when a friend of mine died. here in america derealization is....

experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings (e.g. individuals or objects are experienced as unreal dreamlike, foggy, lifeless or visually distorted) that is not better exxplained by other medical and mental health problems and is not because of things like drugs, alcohol, ....

it used to be these symptoms because of medications was called depersonalization but with the new diagnostics that the American Psychiatric Association put into action in 2013 these symptoms because of medications are no longer called depersonalization. Here in america any dissociative symptoms due to medications are now called ...medication side effects. which is why when I have these symptoms due to my meds my treatment providers do not call it deprealization.

a person here in america can have depersonalization with out it being the severe mental disorder. example I sometimes get derealization (not the mental disorder severity) when i am at work and under stress/deadlines.

you will find many people who have derealization problems not due to mental disorder here.

again welcome.

I see that all the time! APs help to stem it but I just can't take AP, I'm like sensitive to it. Only when it's more than I can handle I'll take an AP. I usually just watch, like a live show.

what's an AP? os is that like what we call PRNs? like as needed meds? I do take Ativan during it, but yea, it doesn't really help a depersonalization/realization moment....

Anti-psychotic for hallucinations. I'm bipolar, and I see geometric shapes and colors, but I also see moving walls and floors that wiggle and ripple.neven the ceiling bounces up and down.

The AP helps with the color shapes, but the walls keep moving.

brain was trying to come up with that and just couldn't do it. but yeah that's what the word was in the brain that couldn't form.
I can't take them at all - they MAKE me psychotic. All of them. old and new. >_<

I used to "space out" from overwhelming anxiety, like being trapped inside a wall and away from the real world and can't get back in it. But my main self would drive the car to the emergency room and be admitted in psychiatric for a few days-weeks for safety. I didn't feel better in the hospital, and all meds made anxiety much worse. Haldol was the worst of all! Being sedated lowers my self control and it scares me even worse to not think clearly.

Eventually I got co-conscious of my alter and would only derealize if T scared me in the therapy room. But she always has seen it coming on. She would reassure me gently and I could come back. Good thing, because it's dangerous to drive back home from therapy in that condition. So, i think I understand what you experience to some degree, if this makes sense to you, AlwaysChanging. It's good to know others who you can relate to with DID.