Really weird sensation, anyone else ever experienced this?

[MurderOfGoths]

I used to get a variation on this when I was a teen, back when my mental health problems started .

I currently feel like I'm miles from my hands and my body - especially my neck/head - feels so heavy that I can't move. Am typing using an on screen keyboard as my hand is the only bit of me responding.

I'm not overly concerned as I remember it never used to last long, but it's still freaky and I'd quite like it to stop.

Little concerned as I'm noticing my body/mind doing a few weird things lately that I remember happening prior to what I now recognize was a nervous breakdown of sorts. Suspect that being off my anti-depressants isn't helping, but I can't go back on them yet as they react with another medication I'm on (Ondansetron), and I cannot cone off that, probably until March/April.

Slight relief.. can move again. That lasted about 10 minutes.

Still, the other things are..

• feeling a long way from things/people
• occasionally I'll be looking at someone and it's like the start to shrink, sometimes just their head
• I get these weird waking nightmare type things, where I'll "see" a textured surface a few centimetres from my face and the surface will gradually get more rough/chaotic, and it feels threatening/scary. Though I couldn't tell you why.

Used to happen a lot in my teens (when I first started self harming), stopped a long time, started again in my early 20's (there's a 6 month period around then I simply cannot remember), then nothing again. So little worried it's a sign my mental health is about to get really bad.

I'm not sure if its your mental health or not but can assure you that the amount of weird symptoms that go with 'stress'is unbelievable and scary.

I would try to find some relaxation techniques that work for you and the whatever it is you will feel more able to cope.
I'd pop back to the gp and mention it and they can rule out any other things that may be going on.
Are there any other reasons you feel you mental health my be 'getting really bad' as you say?x

Yeah, having a bad time with the pregnancy, plus a new bereavement (which unfortunately has brought up unresolved issues from my mum's death), plus my depression being quite bad in general. I'm getting a bit buried in bad stuff right now tbh.

I used to get panic attacks where I'd look at myself in the mirror and it was like looking at someone else, or I'd feel kind of removed from everyone else around me, which sounds similar to the feeling of being miles from your hands you describe.

If you've got a history of mental problems I would second mentioning it to your GP.

Some of this could be leaden paralysis - can be depression symptom. The rest sounds rather like dissociation, where your brain decouples from your body to minimise reaction to stress. Yy to seeing GP just to be on the safe side. With all that's going on, it could 'just' be natural protection mechanism but worth checking.

Plus eat and rest if you can.

Shall definitely get a gp appointment then.