[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.

[amandalouise]

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.

[kecanoe]

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.

1. Are you scared of dying when this happens? Or is it more of a feeling that everything is unreal? The first is possibly a panic attack. I use medication and patience for those. When things feel unreal, I use grounding techniques like breathing in for a count of four, holding for a count of four, exhaling to a count of four, holding for a count of four. Sometimes doing something physical like yoga or walking helps.
2; I avoid mirrors when I am like this. I use other grounding techniques like rubbing ice on my arm, strong peppermint, looking around the room for things of a particular color.
3. Sounding like someone else does not really alarm me. You will hear people say things like "I sound just like my mother", and I often notice how teenagers will adopt expressions from their peers or others. So I think this is probably a fairly usual thing to experience.
4. I have not had that happen.

[Nikki O.]

Originally Posted by amandalouise

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.

Thank-you so much for the advice! I will look back on your post a lot to help remind myself and learn these things. I guess I never noticed that #1 was a panic attack, it shows that I have gotten a lot better because I used to hyperventilate and demand to be brought to the ER. Thank-you so much for the insight

[Nikki O.]

Originally Posted by kecanoe

1. Are you scared of dying when this happens? Or is it more of a feeling that everything is unreal? The first is possibly a panic attack. I use medication and patience for those. When things feel unreal, I use grounding techniques like breathing in for a count of four, holding for a count of four, exhaling to a count of four, holding for a count of four. Sometimes doing something physical like yoga or walking helps.
2; I avoid mirrors when I am like this. I use other grounding techniques like rubbing ice on my arm, strong peppermint, looking around the room for things of a particular color.
3. Sounding like someone else does not really alarm me. You will hear people say things like "I sound just like my mother", and I often notice how teenagers will adopt expressions from their peers or others. So I think this is probably a fairly usual thing to experience.
4. I have not had that happen.

1. At those moments it was a mixture of feelings. I was just frozen just staring while everything was happening around me (loud drunk people, I was trying to sleep on top bunk of the camper while everyone was hitting the "angry **** everything" phase of being **** faced.

I love the idea of using smells like peppermint! I never though of doing that. I have a great sense of smell so carrying around an essential oil bottle would be great! I love sniffing things xD Thank-you for your great input