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I had a neighbour friend who was not a mortician but embalmed his own wife. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Not as bad as I used to, but yeah, if I let myself think at night then I get it really badly. I have to put on sleep meditation videos on YouTube, and I got a Bluetooth sleep mask. If I try to sleep without some kind of distraction it's pretty bad. Same for driving. Gotta have music or an audiobook or something or I end up having the pull the car over. Constant stimulus, basically.

No shrink has mentioned Alice in wonderland syndrome, I will look that up! I can also do the eyelid thing, but I don't because it triggers panic attacks

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah, it used to trigger panic attacks in me too. That's fascinating!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I didn't know anyone else had that same experience, to be honest. Ive told shrinks and they all just say unusual presentation for anxiety/panic attacks

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The friend I was telling you about in another comment had to sleep with a blue light on for years because if he didn't, he knew (even though he realized it was totally irrational) that he would be abducted by aliens. And I guarantee you that was from the trauma of being kidnapped.

    Kids are just so easy to fuck up even when you're actually doing everything the right way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    It honestly makes me wonder why my symptoms went away, but yours persist...

    I've talked to a few people (like 3 or 4 i think) with the syndrome in the past, and it behaved differently for each person I spoke to, whether it's the symptoms, the cause, or, as in our case, whether it goes away or not.

    It's a pretty unresearched syndrome, though the Wikipedia page for it has way more info than when I last checked.

    EDIT: Another thing I'm curious about is that the symptoms also stopped causing panic attacks for me. I haven't had the eyelid thing for a while, since it's way easier for me to do that when I'm extremely tired, but the last time that happened I didn't get an attack at all. If anything, I tried to actually focus on what I was perceiving, I tried to make something out. Again, very weird how it develops differently for every person.

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