Depression/anxiety – “unreal” Feeling?

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Question by RockNRollUK: Depression/anxiety – “unreal” feeling?
Hey guys,

I suffer from depression/anxiety and I’ve been taking Citalopram for about five weeks now. Sometimes I don’t feel like things are real – for example, I’ll do something and then a second later, it just doesn’t feel like it happened. It’s just like everything is “unreal” around me. It feels awful. I can’t think of any other way to explain it – it’s just the feeling that reality isn’t real or something – everything is unreal.

Anybody else suffered from this? Somebody once told me that it’s your nervous system that does it when suffering from depression with the medication.

Thanks.
x

Best answer:

Answer by norkk123
Talk to your doctor, maybe you need some different meds

Answer by Just being me…
I’m sorry to hear about how you feel. I take Xanex for my anxiety, it keeps me calm while also keeping me in reality. I wouldn’t take something that makes life seem unreal. Talk to your doctor again and let them know how you are feeling.

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