Posted by nicky847 on December 31, 2003, at 13:08:11
In reply to Re: depersonalization? derealization? Causes? » LynneDa, posted by Emme on December 30, 2003, at 16:44:06
When my anxiety/depressions symptoms are at their worst I experience this as well...my theory is that when we sleep/dream we are in the melatonin stage of the serotonin/melatonin conversion cycle..so while we are asleep our brains have a shortage of serotonin..because it has been converted to melatonin which is the chemical which makes us go to sleep..
when you are suffering from depression you may also have a serotonin deficiency..similar to how it is when you are sleeping..your brain draws a parallel between these two states and begins to think you are in a dream state...plus theres no melatonin either..so you dont feel at ease with it..
this is all just a theory and based on no real research..but i think there might be something there..
> > Hi! I'm wondering about these concepts you mention. My daughter is 7 and she asks me at least twice a month, "Mommy is this a dream or this real life?" She's done this since she was about 5. She's a bit of a dramatic, highly creative, has some ADD qualities but teachers and pedi. don't think she has it, a Mom with depression (me) and Dad with depression, possibly bi-polar, and OCD. She is dead serious when she asks this. It doesn't seem to bother her, but she just wants affirmation one way or the other. Then she says OK and goes on. It is worrying me. What do you all think? Is this similar to what you are experiencing? Thanks for any thoughts!
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> Yeah, that sounds similar. Plus my body seems a little "foreign" to me, though not to the point of feeling like I'm floating out of it. I can see why this would scare you. Have you mentioned it to your pediatrician?
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> You have just brought to mind childhood memories of looking down at my hands and feeling like I was looking at someone else's hands, like they were not part of my body. My memory's a bit fuzzy, but I don't think it happened all the time. It didn't scare me and I doubt it would last more than a few minutes.
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> This makes me wonder how many of us had some sort of precursors to our current problems when we were kids. But I'm not sure that as a kid I had the kind of anxiety that seems to be triggering it now.
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> Looking back on some notes, the last time I complained of this (it was shorter-lived and milder that time) my pdoc said it was related to serotonin dysregulation.
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