Hi. i have posted a couple of times about that unreal feeling that ive been having now for 3 months and i was just cuious to know because i have this feeling 24/7 where it never lifts is it ever going to go away or is it going to be like this forever?

Andrew thank you so much for posting that. I am going to try my hardest to think more positive even though I dont feel that way. Your words truly helped me alot and I thank you.
Anna

Hi Boo,
I KNOW what your are going through. When I first started getting my panic attacks, I immediately had this spacy, unreal feeling. It really scared me at first because I never had it before and I just couldn't understand it. I never thought I was losing my mind, I just felt like something was "worng". It became very upsetting to me. I even got depressed and these feelings would send me into a panic attack. I am now 6 weeks into the program and ever since I finished lesson 3 and am trying so hard to apply it (It's a skill to learn), (positive self talk & dialogue) I can tell you honestly that the feelings of Bewilderment have began to disappear! Thank God! I am starting to feel "Normal" again, after having these spacy feelings 24-7 for the last 2-1/2 years! Believe it or not, but I actually became used to them. And feeling "normal" has actually been "weird" to me. But I am getting used to it and I am so happy. Trust me, use the program and apply the self talk skills. Do your breathing, and you'll get better. You are so fortunate that you have "only" been feeling like this for a few months! It will be easier for you to get back to "normal". I feel fortunate too, I think the longer you have been anxiety disordered and depressed, it takes a little longer to heal....just like any "hurt", I guess. Well, good luck and here's to recovery
HealingGirl

It won't last forever. I had some of the strangest "unreal" feelings when my panic attacks really got bad. I even described one of them as feeling as if everyone in the classroom (I was teaching at the time) had suddenly been separated from me by a glass wall. I knew that I was talking but felt like there was no sound in the room. It was really eery. I feared that I would always be like that. I'm not, though, and neither will you.

Are you working with the tape series? If so, you should see a change in the "unreal" feelings as you go through the program. Andrew and HealingGirl are right -- positive self-talk, relaxation, and breathing are the keys to getting beyond that spacey feeling.

I just let it ride over me like a wave. I think it was Ken who said that. I let my mund go blank and I watch other people instead. Times like this I let life pass me by and I watch it pass by. I stop thinking. I just watch.

Lo behold I am out of it. I guess sometimes we can get tired of self talk. So why dont you watch others for a change and keep your mind empty like a floating cloud?

Dunno for the rest of you but it worked for me.