Help me explain this feeling ?

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Ok this is something soo difficult to explain. I've spent so much time online trying to find out what this feeling is.. but its hard to research something that you cant explain? Its just a feeling .
I'm going to try to explain it though to see if anybody relates and can help me explain the feeling.
For example,, yesterday i were sitting with my family in the living room, we were happy etc, just got in from an evening at my Mums. We were all sitting there chatting then all of a sudden i got this kind of wave this feeling , it felt as though the situation was very 'this is a gross weird situation' like i felt irritated by the situation? I felt kind of an annoyed uncomfortablness, but for no reason? Its kind of a 'ew' feeling.. but it passes in like a minute. It just goes.
Anyone ive spoke always jumps to derealisation or depersonalisation, but i know its not at all this, i get depersonalisation all the time so i know its completely different, I dont feel nervous or anxious or freaked out or feel like another person. Thing is ive had this feeling since i was very young, it only comes now and again and at the most random situations..
I know i sound like a psycho crazy lady, and this isnt affecting my life at all. Im just curious because my husband asked if i were okay yesterday in living room, he said it looked like i zoned out for a second then came back, and thats when i tried to explain this feeling.. then i realised that i couldnt explain it and got fustrated lol.
Does anybody experience anything like this at all? Or am i just a freak.

Sounds daft but possibly a very mild form of epilepsy eg temporal lobe seizures ? They can do all manner of weird things ... the zoning out fits with some sort of seizure activity . It’s probably just stress or something but it’s maybe worth mentioning to the GP just in case .

It sounds like a wave of anxiety. Tbh I get the same thing just before a hot flush (menopause related). A “feeling of impending doom” is I believe how it’s explained on here. Passes in a few moments and then everything is back to normal.

Maybe similar hormone related thing with you, not necessarily menopause but something else?

I can’t explain but I get it too! It’s like a feeling of doom or just intense discomfort and weirdly it usually happens when I’m really happy or enjoying something!

@naericht That’s weird you mention epilepsy...I am actually epileptic but only have absence seizures and tonic chlonic seizures. Maybe these feelings are worth mentioning to my neurologist?

I get this. I've always assumed it is a hormone spike. For a few seconds I feel really emotional and stifled and then it passes.

I find it really hard to explain too but have also felt this occasionally since being a child. Haven't had it for a few years, last time when I was having a period of extreme anxiety, but I knew exactly what you meant!

@naericht MM possibly, its not really where i zone out though, my husband said i just looked like i had. I am fully aware of the situation and i'm looking at the situation and soaking it in, with this feeling..

I get this! Not as much as I used to but very occasionally. It only lasts for a minute or so but during that time I feel sort of disgusted and just kind of 'wrong'. It is so difficult to explain.

@lalallama yes thats it, thats a good word.. disgusted.

I sometimes get a sort of irritated 'What the hell am I doing here with these people?' feeling, and I just want to get up and leave. There's no logic to it either.

@Princessfaffalot yeah its funny, i dont feel and feeling of impending doom. I just feel like @Lalallama said, kind of disgusted and then it goes

@cometothinkofit yes thats it!

Ah see mine is never the irritation or related to the people around me. It’s always intense doom or discomfort. But I do zone out while it’s happening and can’t think or continue the conversation until it’s gone so I’m wondering if maybe if it is another form of absence seizure.

If it isn’t depersonalisation or derealisation, since you have experience of those, then I think “wave of anxiety” is probably the simplest explanation. Accompanied by a rush of adrenaline, even?

(Slightly off topic, but depersonalisation was a revelation to me when I discovered it. It’s something that’s happened to me since childhood and I had NO IDEA it had a name).

I get this I have never mentioned it to anyone as I thought it was just me. Really interesting to hear I'm not the only one. For me it's like a feeling of sadness or doom as another poster put. It again only lasts a minute or two, very random and normally when I'm happy. I remember having it on Xmas day once.
Do hope someone comes along who can explain it.

@username977943 yeah thats something different to me. I have no doomy feelings. Brains are weird.

Thinking back to when I used to get it more as a child, it was often when getting changed for swimming, so I wonder whether it is linked in some way to anxiety, but it doesn't feel like anxiety at all. Just the disgusted feeling, and as PP said a kind of sadness with it.

I also get ASMR, do you get that? A weird tingly feeling in the back of your head when someone is doing something near you like cleaning, or drawing.

I get this too, and I've never quite been able to put it into words.

Yes I get this sometimes, completely normal situation, happy family time or whatever and get a sudden wave of feeling uneasy, and like everything feels wrong. And yes, disgusted, as someone said.

yes that's it!
Phew - I was thinking it was just me...

I’ve had this mainly as an adolescent, and I wasn’t a happy adolescent). I last felt it in my 20’s after reading a macabre book (comfort of strangers, Ian mcEwan). For me it was just a feeling of despair and hopelessness, and feeling sick to my stomach. Never occurred to me others might have it too.