For about five and a half years now I've had a problem and never really sought help for it.
Let's take this one step at a time, Camaroyenko.
Realise now, that . . . you spotted a 'moment' when you first started to think like this. (What age?) What was that moment five and a half years ago? What was it about the 'reality' around you that didn't fit the 'reality' you thought reality
should be?
Apply objective thought to this for awhile.
Remember - you 'thinking' that 'life is not real' is a thought. Nothing but a thought.
What happens is I think that life is not real. It is hard to describe, but it is very bad when it happens...
For a start, keep a journal. Nothing much, nothing fancy, just some book you can write in, and a pen - and write down these thoughts - whenever you can at any time of the day and put it aside. You will find upon reading it a year later or so that your 'thoughts' would have changed considerably. Like going back to an old forum post and thinking 'Yikes! I wrote
that?' Or - 'Wow, I
was right about that.'
Ever watched the movie
The Truman Show? We all seem to feel disconnected like that - some of us most of the time . . . and even some all the time. Call it the opposite of empathy (if you need something relative to relate to the concept). Understanding
others brings us closer, and solidifies our 'reality'.
Being understood makes us feel even more real (or existing). Hence we flock for comfort and safety. The more we isolate ourselves (either by trying to be
too different or specially unique in some way) the more we seem to lose contact with the 'Collective Reality', and the more we seem to immerse ourselves in our own version of reality, thereby causing a sense of detachment with what is generally regarded all around us collectively as 'reality'.
In a deeper sense there isn't a 'reality'. Just a series of events via substance in a Spacetime Continuum/Fabric that is being perceived or experienced by a 'YOU' in a forward motion - a characteristic of the experience itself.
To put it in short - what you experience . . . is your 'reality'. The levels of 'real' are only limited by your understanding of what is possible.
Usually, when it does happen, it lasts about a half hour or so. Then I'm fine after that
It usually happens dang near every day that I work!
It's brutal, it really is...
Any ideas?
These could also be 'panic' attacks or anxiety attacks. Panic attacks are sometimes caused by an allergy to something (maybe something at work.) Take a closer look at the timing and environmental patterns connected with this; it is basically your brain pumping out the orders to flee from the scene, because your brain (far more intelligent than your 'thinking' - which is merely an expression of its workings, and a small one at that) knows, in the way a brain that has developed since the beginning of time, that something is not right in the reality you are experiencing - namely a hazardous workplace for instance.
Many other good comments. and helpful thoughts and links already in here, but I thought I might offer you some of my own thoughts, too . . .
Good Luck, and put a smile on your face. That helps, too, I find.
