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Constant 24/7 Deja

Mon, 01/26/2015 - 21:36
I am 42 years old. I have Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, ADHD, and OCD. I have received ECT treatments fine since 2008. Then, in May 2014 things went downhill when I was in the hospital (again, I was receiving ECT treatments and had no problems). I started experiencing non-stop/constant deja vu. It has not let go and they have supposedly rule everything out and are calling me psychosomatic (I have had horrible headaches since then). I am living in a state of deja vu 24/7 and my dreams are like I have had the exact dream before, as well as the thoughts that are running through my head. There are no new memories. I was in the hospital in November and now I see that my head was not as clear-headed as it was, as I had an episode where I got some saline in my eye and it then felt like I went into a complex seizure, though I came out of it after 2-3 minutes -- all I know is I could not see and felt my body shaking and felt l ike my life was passing me by. I asked one of the observing nurses if I had a seizure and they told me. I was not in my right mind and I did nto tell my psychiatrist. I thought nothing much of it, though my head became a lot more clear-headed after this episode. Since December 29, 2014, I have had periods that have felt like my head on my left side was tingling. There was one period where I was totally exhausted/fatigued (never happenes) and I was nodding off everywhere, including driving. That took about five days to heal. I guess it is just hard to deal with as it is affecting my mental illness and I thought there is nothing that can be done and that is the most hard thing -- knowing that my life is always going to be like this.

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