[Cplus]

I've had this symptom for 14 months. It started when I smoked weed and had a high where I thought I was on the brink of losing my mind, it was the most terrifying experience I had ever and probably will ever go through. Anyway it took a year to recover from that but the only symptom I have left is this stupid head feeling I get where it feels like I'm about to lose touch with reality. It's a weird foggy, breathing, heavy, static, pulsating feeling in my brain that encompasses my forehead and the entire top of my head. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm losing touch with reality if it's really bad.

This is has and continues to ruin my life because everything feels overwhelming like the next thing I do will push my brain off the plank. I'm afraid to be far away from my house in case I actually lose my mind. I NEVER leave the house at night because that's when it's at its worst. It's so stupid because before I smoked that stupid weed I would be outside far away from home day or night and now I barely leave the house except to go buy cigarettes at the corner store and to smoke in my backyard. I literally have not been farther then the end of my street more then 15 times in 14 months!

I don't know what to do! I'm taking propranolol now and have been taking it for 2 months but that head feeling that is causing all of this is still there.

Does anyone know what this is? My doctor is at a loss, the ENT I went to says it's not my sinuses causing it, MRI normal, blood tests normal. Please help!

[Amyjay]

You should stop smoking weed. It can trigger the onset of schizophrenia in some people.

Drugs mess with brains and are generally not good. To be your best self and maintain your best brain don't do drugs!

[luvyrself]

Originally Posted by Amyjay

You should stop smoking weed. It can trigger the onset of schizophrenia in some people.

Drugs mess with brains and are generally not good. To be your best self and maintain your best brain don't do drugs!

——you dont know what’s in street drugs. Propanol is so strong that you should be more concerned about being exact in how you take the meds and not drinking or doing rec drugs w it. Your pdoc will give you some kind of diagnosis. He has to put a diagnosis code on any insurance.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Cplus

I've had this symptom for 14 months. It started when I smoked weed and had a high where I thought I was on the brink of losing my mind, it was the most terrifying experience I had ever and probably will ever go through. Anyway it took a year to recover from that but the only symptom I have left is this stupid head feeling I get where it feels like I'm about to lose touch with reality. It's a weird foggy, breathing, heavy, static, pulsating feeling in my brain that encompasses my forehead and the entire top of my head. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm losing touch with reality if it's really bad.

This is has and continues to ruin my life because everything feels overwhelming like the next thing I do will push my brain off the plank. I'm afraid to be far away from my house in case I actually lose my mind. I NEVER leave the house at night because that's when it's at its worst. It's so stupid because before I smoked that stupid weed I would be outside far away from home day or night and now I barely leave the house except to go buy cigarettes at the corner store and to smoke in my backyard. I literally have not been farther then the end of my street more then 15 times in 14 months!

I don't know what to do! I'm taking propranolol now and have been taking it for 2 months but that head feeling that is causing all of this is still there.

Does anyone know what this is? My doctor is at a loss, the ENT I went to says it's not my sinuses causing it, MRI normal, blood tests normal. Please help!

first you are relatively new so I am going to point you to the disclaimer at the bottom of the page that says....

The material on this site is for informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice,
diagnosis or treatment provided by a qualified health care provider.
Always consult your doctor or mental health professional before trying anything you read here.

to me that says no one here can tell you whether something is a dissociative disorder or not. (your thread title question) only you and your own doctors ca say whether you have a dissociative disorder or not.

what I can tell you is that if you google dissociative disorders or if you go to your local library and read in the diagnostic manuals you will see that drug usage has to be .....ruled out.... as the cause of the problems.

your post states you use drugs (weed and propranolol not sure if they are prescribed or not)

here where I am this would tell .......my own......treatment providers the problems are not called dissociation disorders, my own treatment providers would call this in me medication/ drugs side effects. then they would refer me to a drug treatment program...

mind you this is only what my own treatment providers would think, say and do if I had told them what you posted was happening to me.

my suggestion if you want to know what is going on directly related to you, you will need to contact your medical doctor or a mental health treatment provider where you are located. they will tell you whether you have a dissociative disorder or a drug problem or what ever else this may be in you.

Originally Posted by Cplus

I've had this symptom for 14 months. It started when I smoked weed and had a high where I thought I was on the brink of losing my mind, it was the most terrifying experience I had ever and probably will ever go through. Anyway it took a year to recover from that but the only symptom I have left is this stupid head feeling I get where it feels like I'm about to lose touch with reality. It's a weird foggy, breathing, heavy, static, pulsating feeling in my brain that encompasses my forehead and the entire top of my head. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm losing touch with reality if it's really bad.

This is has and continues to ruin my life because everything feels overwhelming like the next thing I do will push my brain off the plank. I'm afraid to be far away from my house in case I actually lose my mind. I NEVER leave the house at night because that's when it's at its worst. It's so stupid because before I smoked that stupid weed I would be outside far away from home day or night and now I barely leave the house except to go buy cigarettes at the corner store and to smoke in my backyard. I literally have not been farther then the end of my street more then 15 times in 14 months!

I don't know what to do! I'm taking propranolol now and have been taking it for 2 months but that head feeling that is causing all of this is still there.

Does anyone know what this is? My doctor is at a loss, the ENT I went to says it's not my sinuses causing it, MRI normal, blood tests normal. Please help!

To be honest...after reading your post...and being like a mentally ill affected...I would say a drug induced psychosis not so much dissociation is the culprit overall... because of cocaine and speed...I was the same way.

Weed makes me dissociate and mindless while the other drugs in good amounts makes me one paranoid mess.

Was life like this before drugs?

I think then you know he answer.