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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about

depersonalization, and solutions. This came up in conversation in our group

coaching and so I wanted to talk about it here because it's interesting how when this is happening to you, you feel like you are the only person that this has happened to. It feels very strange and you

can't imagine that anybody else could experience this. So what I want to do is

read to you the email that I received and then I want to get on to my answer to our listener.

So this is from K. It said great call today. It went by so fast and I

actually had more that I wanted to talk about. This was from our group coaching call.

This came up. I was wondering, as we were talking about the physical reasons behind our bodily

sensations, I wondered if anyone knows about the bodily sensations that are associated with

depersonalization in particular. For me I get tingly sensations across my whole forehead.

I get dizzy and lightheaded.

My eyesight gets blurry, and it's super hard to focus,

and I can feel disconnected from the rest of my body, especially the lower half.

When I was just dealing with panic attacks, I learned to tell myself that my heart was

racing because my body perceived a threat.

That all my physical symptoms were due to the blood being pumped to my muscles and

I simply needed to send calming and safe signals to my brain. But with

depersonalization I will get triggered and my first noticeable response is the forehead tingling shortly followed by the

floaty disconnected blurry vision feeling. I don't get a racy heart. It feels so

different than the panic attacks did. And so I haven't quite known what to tell myself about those physical symptoms except to focus on bringing sensation back into my body using something like ice.

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