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I wanted to post this to ask anyone if they have ever felt this before. I am always in my house i never go places or in a car but even when i go to even my Grandmother's house i start to feel uneasy.. feeling like under my skin it feels like its jumpy or twitchy feeling and i feel like something bad is going to happen and sometimes i zone out and feel like i have to go home or something is going to happen because of the way i'm feeling and i sort of feel really weak and light headed or out of body feeling. Which when my Panic Disorder started i felt the "out of body" numbness feeling like i wasn't really there or it was hard to feel much and i didn't understand what was wrong with me feeling like that. My main fear is the "out of body" feeling or going in surgry.. because of the stuff they put you to sleep with i don't want to feel numb or out of body or weird feeling like i'm dying or not there. If i had to go to the dentist or doctor and be put to sleep for surgery i think i would be having the biggest panic attack of my life. I was literally shaking in the Dentist office when he was just checking my mouth. And if i had to get surgery ever i think that would be the worst because i don't know how the drugs would react to me or make me feel and i want to ask the scary question now... what does it feel like to be put to sleep for that? Sorry for my ranting on i'm just sort of really really nervous talking about this but i hope it will help with the answers and for anyone else who has this problem.

lostgirl - I also have the "out of body" feelings too. Sometimes when I'm panicking, I look in the mirror and it feels like I'm looking at someone else. Or I'll look at my hands and it feels like they're not me.

Fortunately, it's a pretty common symptom of anxiety and panic attacks. It's called depersonalization. I don't really understand what causes it, but it can't hurt you, you're not going crazy, and the feelings always will pass.

As for surgery, I've had a few minor procedures done, one where I had to be put under. I was really nervous about it, but it turned out to be really easy. To sum up the experience, the doctor started giving me the anesthetic intravenously and then asked me to start counting backwards from 100. I only got to 94 or 93 and then all of a sudden I was awake in the recovery area. It's was like the surgery never happened - the time passed in an instant.

I am new to the program to and I do have those wierd feelings as well. I even get ashamed sometimes when I feel like that. It's horrible feeling. But dont worry, I think this program should help us. so just hang in there!

Lostgirl- I get this feeling as well. usually if I laydown for a few minutes the feeling will pass.

Those feelings especially the "out of body, detached" feeling scared me when i had it for a while until i got on antidepressants is when it stopped. I hardly even get that feeling anymore but when i panic alot i do. I'm glad they go away though. Can't stand that feeling.

These feelings are very normal. I had them myself. I couldn't leave home before I found this program 18 years ago. But now, after completing it and an intensive two years of EMDR therapy I have very few issues at all and can drink coffee again.

I think everyone gets scared of their body symptoms. Mine change every year or so. I still suffer sometimes, when stressed, with fixating on a problem and then symptoms come back. But the whole symptoms to realization to cease of symptoms is a couple hours instead of days on end.

It will get better. Work hard with the program and take good care of yourself. Diet is HUGE as is fitness.

lostgirl, I've been feeling like that for months know and yes it is very scary, I feel like I am loosing my mind even when everybody keeps telling me that it is just my anxiety.. I've had this condition for over a year now and but the spacey feelings were not as bad as they are now, and de depersonalization, sometimes I look in the mirros and I know its me but my body does not have that feeling of beeing me, it might sound crazy or confusing and thats what scares me alot. What if i am going crazy?

i know what your feeling,the twitching, and feeling like your losing your mind,ive been going through this for a number of years,and actually had a bad day yesterday,after 5 weeks of a good run of i guess pink cloud syndrome,you know the everything is alright im full of it syndrome.well it ended for me yesterday,i had a tremendous panic, anger,paranoia, attack,twitching,and feeling everyone was against me again,thats how my mind works with this stuff.i wanted too stop doing the program,and didnt even post yesterday.and the posting to me has been the best part of it,because i could get things off my chest with you people who go through the same thing i do.and then i remembered the simplest thing lucinda said in session 2,that it was me that causes it,and it always passes,and she was right, the minute i thought of that,it passed.and then i wrote in my journal, and went too this group,and things became alright again,and thats just it,its always going too be alright if we remember were the only ones that do this,and we dont want to hurt ourselves anymore right.breathe and keep posting,i feel ya.