Feeling Drugged

[qwyoey]

I'm wondering if anyone feels like they've been drugged when they are dissociating? (Side note- I'm on zero medications).

 

[Fadeaway]

Drugged could be a way to describe it. Brain fog, heavy headed and feeling like I am underwater are other ways I describe how I feel when I am dissociated.

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

Always feels like I'm not in my body, but I'm also not fully in my head either.

 

[Saint Nik]

Yes. I have felt this too. Sometimes I use to feel I was walking on to a boat as it rocks when you first step on it, though this would be on a hard floor in my house! And when I looked around the room slightly had a spin feeling to it. Also the usual brain fog, dizzy spells, heavy feeling upon the eyes, sometimes spots, dazzled eyes with bright lights got a bit too much for me. Weak feelings inside my body, like I could fall over at any time. . . so yeah, it felt like I was on something, and like you I was never on any medication at all!

 

[illusionist]

Yes I feel drugged and saw myself on film a few months ago and actually looked like I was drugged. Both my eyes and my speech were different. That was a shock to me to actually see it.

 

[EmpathicLG]

Thank you sooo much to those who posted.... The past year has been very stressful for me and my PTSD started getting even more debilitating this past month with dizzy spells and disassociating regularly. It's like I've lost touch... I have a hard time focusing and can't sit still or I can't move because I feel like I'm going to faint... I see spots, I'm sensitive to everything and doing everything I can to keep myself fed to survive through this... But I've never felt this horrible as this past vertigo like episode.

I can feel my body calming just reading your replies to know I'm not the only one... This can be quite frightening.

I have smoked weed and cigs and coffee to cope with my depression, exhaustion and anxiety and I know I need to make some lifestyle changes...

Has anyone had success in relieving this or is it something that passes over time?

 

[ballerinabetty123]

Yes I feel drugged when dissociated.
It's a very uneasy feeling x

 

[qwyoey]

Has anyone had success in relieving this or is it something that passes over time?

For me, I've made many lifestyle changes that overall are helping with all my symptoms.

1. I'm tracking my moods on a monthly google calendar. When I feel spinny. When I'm irritable. Basically everything. It's been helpful to see what I'm responding to, whether it's a trigger, stress at work, or the many hormonal changes that you have to deal with due to rising and falling estrogen, progesten, and testosterone around my period. That's been very helpful because I'm sure we all know how susceptible we are to mood changes, and when your body has a natural hormone cycle, I feel so much better being able to see, tomorrow this hormone will wane and I'll feel better. That' its not all in my head etc.

2. Major sleep changes. This is hard, but after many months, and years- all my life since infancy, I'm finally going to sleep. It took a lot of effort to get here. But sleep changes everything.

3. Major diet changes- I believe this was the biggest help actually in changing my sleep habit. We now have ZERO processed foods in our house. I will not let processed items in. I watched the documentary Fed Up several times.

I eat mostly whole fruits and veggies, and outside of the sugar in fruit, I no longer have any sugar in my diet. I had a tough month of sugar withdrawal where I was highly cranky. I'm basically recovering from sugar addiction and using food to self medicate. I've lost 85 pounds and am no longer overweight. I'm on the lighter side of my weight range in the BMI scale. 85 pounds in 8 months with no calorie counting either. And very little exercise until recently, and I'm still very moderate because I don't want to increase my anxiety too much with exercise- a problem once you break out of the dopamine/food addiction.

I'm still struggling heavily with fighting dissociation but no where near the degree I was many months ago. I used to live in my head all day. 12-14 hours would go by and I had barely moved. I couldn't leave my house. I was completely crippled by this. So we started very slowly where I'd just try to do one task a day, then two, and I charted them. I'm definitely not at the level I should be, but i'm about 1000% more active than before, see friends at least once or twice a week, do my work a little bit better.

I never knew what the drugged feeling was for the longest time. I knew for years I had PTSD but it wasn't until things got so bad I finally sought outside help and turned all my attention on getting better. I did so many things in the past to try to break out of the fog- so much caffeine, eating more, exercise, and it never went away. I think you just have to process the trauma so your brain stops using it's energy to take you away from it mentally.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

Mine creates emotional numbness and chronic fatigue.

 

[Kodah]

I've been told I act drugged but I'm unaware its happening most of the time.

 

[Ronin]

No. Quite a different thing.

But I some times flashback to times of having been drugged hard. Still not the same thing.

 

[Gadgie]

Yea! I get that feeling after I've taken my meds sometimes, my speech goes a bit slurry as does my concentration, I feel dizzy at times as well?

Yet, other days it doesn't have any effects on me at all?

I've started taking them last thing at night now, so I can go straight to bed if those symptoms appear.

When I used to take them earlier, I would lose a whole evening in a haze, so I changed over to late evenings.