Does anyone else keep feeling really out of it? Like this isn't real?

[AccidentsAhoy]

I suffer from depersonalisation quite a lot in my depression and I just feel like this whole thing is a film.

Like it isn't happening.

Then it hits me it is real.

It's just all so surreal.

I think I've watched too many films.

Same

Yes, me.

Yep the same, keep wanting to wake up

yeah i feel like I'm watching a movie it's very hard to believe.

Yes, feel like I’m in a dream. Seriously considering some meds.

Yes, but no depression, I just can't get my head around it being real life.
This isn't what happens in real life!

Exactly how I feel, like it’s just an odd dream.

I think I feel it most when I watch TV and see the VIRUS PANDEMIC headlines and footage of empty streets and it just makes it feel so fake.

Surreal is the word I frequently hear. It feels like the world is being reset.

Yep. I feel like life is normal (on mat leave so used to being at home) then I remember. It's horrible.

Same here. Every so often I just forget...and the then watch the news. My brain is very slow on the uptake. Even being in an empty school today I was still struggling to believe it.

Yes. Watching Boris just now was surreal.

It's a coping technique.

Sustained high stress is not good for us physically or mentally. Your brain is calming you down by whatever mechanism seems to work.

Don't start trying to medicate against it! You need to do what gets you through this as well as possible - and if you do have to ramp up your personal response you need to be ready for that.

I'm already highly medicated 😂

Yes

Very surreal. I’m rolling with it (not like I’ve got any other option)

I mainly feel ok, (surreal is the perfect word) but everyone now and then it gets to me and I feel really anxious, can feel my heart rate speeding up and get a bit breathless, how I imagine a panic attack starts, I have to take deep breath and calm myself down, got to remain calm for the kids

Yes!!! I keep wondering if I'm just imagining it.

Yes. It is surreal and I almost feel like I'm so anxious, I'm not. I thought I would have more symptoms of anxiety, but it's like I can't process it. Really hard to describe.

Yes me.
I keep hoping I'll wake up and tell everyone about the weird dream I had

Yes. Having been isolated for 10 days now it feels like life has stopped. We’re just going through the motions.

Me too. Keep thinking I'll wake up tomorrow and it will be over.

I had a weird feeling this morning like I needed to call someone and tell them about it in a "you will NEVER guess what I heard, it's bonkers" kind of way. And then I remembered it's real and everyone already knows about it.

Three weeks ago feels about three years ago now. It's weird thinking about how carefree I was meeting friends in the pub. We were all making jokes about accidentally coughing and freaking someone out.

I have that disconnected feeling all the time due to my bipolar meds. Then I read the news or see something and think...yea...there that too. I dont feel like I have absorbed it then ask myself what exactly the fuck I am meant to do anyways. I am severely asthmatic so am most likely pushing away the enormity of it otherwise I shan't cope