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'Highly Functioning Anxiety': What is that?

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

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The Effects of Depersonalization on Anxiety

depersonalization is a state that's within the anxiety kind of set of experiences where you can start to feel like you are not real. It could be literally the world feels strange it could feel like everything looks kind of weird one thing that used to happen a lot when I first started having panic attacks is it would almost feel like the depth perception around me had disappeared and the world was either right up in my face or was separate parts ofkind of almost feel like they were floating around so depersonalisation and derealization can come in many many forms and if you have it and you find it's frightening I totally understand but I promise you it's just another simple symptom.

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