Distortion

[*Uv_ragdoll*(Shelley)]

Does anyone else see things nto as they are, everything looks distorted from lamps to faces andnjust everything around you isnt quite right.

It's really making things seem unreal and dreamlike id otn know what to do ive just taken my meds so hopefullt itmight help when they kick in.

[Stellata]

Did it ease off?

I find that sometimes when I dissociate, if it's a 'child state' everything and everyone can seem bigger than they are, and either too close or too far away. But that passes when I 'come back to myself'.

I thought I was alone in this, I'll see things that look strange, and then gradually they turn into normal things, like I'll see a scary women but then five minutes later she'll be a tree. I don't know if that's what you mean, I fnd it freaky but I figure it's normal?

When I'm disassociated things don't look real, or I think things are made out of cardboard etc. Is that more what you mean? Sometimes everything goes blurry and I can't see at all properly.

[Heidi Tiger]

I get this.
Like I'll be sitting on my bed and suddenly my bed is enormous, like an ocean and then it shrinks again. And sometimes the edges of things bend and twist.
And Roby I get the scary women/tree thing. I always think my dressing gown is a person, or shadows are animals. But I just thought it was an overactive imagination.

Shelley, I'd just try and keep calm. At least you know it's unreal, so that should try and keep you safe. I find shutting my eyes, counting to 10 then opening them again sometimes helps.
take care
xxx

[Shelley]

I got that at christmas time, I thought I was finally flipping out for good. All the decorations, the tree, looked odd, scary even, and the images on the T.V. looked weired,it was kinda like a bad trip, without taking the drugs! I sneaked out of the house with my meds and took the lot. Was found, and sectioned. It's so good to know, im not the only one who has felt like that!

[*Uv_ragdoll*(Shelley)]

thanks for your replies its good to know im not alone is there any chance it could be part of my schizophrenia?

[Parvolex]

Hmm... I get that a lot with the whole everything and everone getting too close or too far away, but i always though it was down to anxiety... same as my vision getting covered with dots...

Apparently I dissociate according my psychiatrist though. =/

[Stellata]

Anxiety and dissociation tend to be connected, Parvolex. That's my experience also, anyway.

[Steel Maiden]

Yes, and I don't know if its my illness or my possible blood sugar problems, or both.

BTW Hi Parvolex.