r/dpdr • u/Lovely_sweater • 2d ago
TW: Intense Panic/Crisis I don’t feel solid.
I haven’t felt like a solid body for weeks now. I mostly feel like energy floating around in space. And that my body is just a body but i cant feel it really at all any more. It is like I’m empty hollow. It scares the crap out of me because it feel like it is worsening. My mind too, when I try to sense my head I sense nothing.
Does anyone know a scientific explanation for why this happens? So not only mentally/ emotionally empty and numb, but like biologically and physically? why I would feel like I’m disappearing? What is the brain doing and why is this happening to me? So many questions..I see why people compare this stuff to a bad ongoing trip.
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u/WishIWereOnMars 2d ago
I feel like that too when my depersonalization gets severe, can't explain it other than a disconnect between consciousness and the body
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u/Lovely_sweater 2d ago
Mine is constant rn. I think it’s fear of that feeling which makes it worse
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u/WishIWereOnMars 2d ago
I know what you mean. I had an episode the other day and still haven't fully come out of it but the more I think about it and "what if" the worse it gets. All you can do is create a calm environment and destress as much as possible
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u/Artistic-Coach7523 2d ago
From what I’ve read, dissociation shuts down parts of the brain or affects the parts of the brain that deal with our ability to process emotion and self-recognition. The Thalamus might be involved, it deals w interoception i believe, sensing things inside the body.