Bowen Yang takes break from podcast due to derealization mental health issues

[tucker]

Bowen Yang has announced a break from his podcast Las Culturistas while dealing with "bad bouts of depersonalization" https://t.co/UIBYnAP4Ka
- JustJared.com (@JustJared) July 4, 2023
The 32 year old SNL star announced that he is taking a break from his popular podcast, Las Culturistas, featuring celebs such as Kelly Clarkson, due to "bad bouts of

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[tucker]

It's a long story but in 2019 I started having really bad anxiety symptoms but I didn't realize it was anxiety I just thought I was dying. Anyway one of my "symptoms" is I would sit down to dinner with friends or something and then it was like this glass wall was placed around me where I could still hear everyone but it was dimmed down and I would just answer people on auto drive without even thinking about what I was doing. Anyway once I met up with a qualified therapist she was like yep that's derealization

It also really fucked with my vision, sometimes things would be too sharp where everything looked TOO real, or it would be like a blurry vibe, and my therapist once again was like yep that's another part of derealization lol

[cassismagic]

[ricinbeans]

i know exactly what you describe. its such an intense out-of-body feeling, looking at my arms and not experiencing them as my own.

[kimda]

Ugh the way your vision makes everything so sharp it’s like it’s outlined in marker UGH

[feelingcold]

It was such a revelation when I realized I was experiencing anxiety as dissociation. The pandemic really messed with me because I felt less depressed and stressed than I had in years and was super productive, almost manic, but several times a day I would have moments where it felt like my brain disconnected from the entire left half of my body and my arm would go numb, and my vision would go weird and I thought I was having a stroke.

[sharo_8760]

I've had something similar, like maybe 5 times a year for many years now (super randomly, hard to estimate the amount and frequency) and only the last time I could actually connect it to anxiety and found out about derealization through googling. The first times it happened it was super scary but nowadays I know it feels bad for a while and then passes. Apparently the vision symptoms are similar to migraine, so I've thought it's that, but I suppose that can be connected to anxiety? Idk. My main takeaway from this has been that the human body is strange. And that not even many doctors know what's going on with it.

[anna_drenxavier]

OMG I experience the exact same thing! It is so bizarre.

[doubtmars]

Interesting, I definitely have experienced what you're describing before. I have a different vision uh phenotype though. People suddenly appear a lot further away and smaller.

[tomelette]

Yep, this happened to me a lot and still happens when I experience anxiety. At its worst, I realized what The Bell Jar also meant: seeing everything behind glass and feeling captured.

[5368f65]

yeah, i had this nearly the entire time while i had anemia & high copper uptake issues. it felt like hell, especially cause for me it was almost 24/7 for nearly a year. i feel so, so lucky that the cause was found for me, cause it was... bad.

[you_hermit_crab]

Oh, I never really had a name for that and just assumed it was my lonely reality as a perpetual 5th wheel to my friends lol. Good to know.