I need help with depersonalization, please Im also not kidding, please dont be emotionally insensiti
Hi, I started having feelings of depersonalization about 2 months ago. I think that I've had isolated incidents of it in the past (I'm talking for like 5 seconds), but it's always gone away. Well, ever since I was on a whole bunch of corticosteroids that completely changed my moods and emotions, I haven't been completely normal. Well, I came off the steroids, and started to feel better (still very odd and trance-like, but a tolerable level), but now that I'm back on them again for my asthma, I feel awful. I don't even know if I'm asleep, awake, alive, etc. I'm just constantly confused and afraid that I'm going to die. I feel emotionally detached, yet I know that there's emotions inside of me somewhere because I'll randomly start crying when I think about what if anything happened to my mom and who would take care of me. I honestly want to be like admitted to a mental hospital or something. Do they ever admit people for things like this? Since I'm a minor, could my mom stay?
Answer:It's unlikely that you'd get admitted for a psychiatric hospitalization and it's doubtful that you'd need one. You're obviously very bright and you've researched this topic enough to recognize your symptoms, so please talk with your Mom (who it sounds like you're close to) and ask her to take you to your doc and discuss the symptoms. Perhaps there are other steroids he can try that would be less likely to cause these symptoms or he could add a benzo to help take the edge off if you need to be on them. Don't fight biology!
you may need to be in a regular hospital because of your strong reaction to the steroidal drugs. Talk to your doctor and tell him what you are feeling.
I think you need more help then you will