Does anyone else get depersonalisation?

[Zara-Newman]

I have epilepsy and this seems to come with it at the moment, I usually have the feeling for a few hours them I will have a seizure and feel like myself again.
It's triggered my emotional stress or fright mostly.

My main question is it normal to talk to people like you're on autopilot, I have told people things I have never told anyone when I am having an episode.
I don't know of it is that I take questions literally or that I cannot lie.

Does this happen to anyone else?

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[Nakamova]

Apparently I have said some weird things when I am still "coming out of" a tonic-clonic seizure. Not quite the same as what you're describing, but depending on what areas of the brain are affected, people will say and do strange things...

 

[knothing]

I have had deja vu type seizures in the middle of a conversation (even leading a meeting) and I talk on autopilot while I mentally struggle telling myself that the deja vu is not real. By not real I mean telling myself that none of this has happened. It is very odd when people ask questions and I respond while that is going on.
Closest I have ever experienced anything close to that.

 

[zombelina]

I have epilepsy and this seems to come with it at the moment, I usually have the feeling for a few hours them I will have a seizure and feel like myself again.
It's triggered my emotional stress or fright mostly.

My main question is it normal to talk to people like you're on autopilot, I have told people things I have never told anyone when I am having an episode.
I don't know of it is that I take questions literally or that I cannot lie.

Does this happen to anyone else?

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I have something a little bit like this in response to anxiety. I read something somewhere where someone called it "maladaptive daydreaming." I don't know if that's an actual medical term. I would compare it to mild dissociation. I just kind of zone out into my own little world. The worse the anxiety is the more I do it. The thoughts aren't always pleasant though, so while they "protect" me from the real world, they still cause stress. It's always about the same one or two things - which gets tiring. I wish I didn't do it. It sounds like what you are experiencing is different though.

 

[seagull]

Sick or bad awkward situation if schoolgirl French can be recalled.i told was altered state of consciousness ,may not be samething

 

[Zara-Newman]

It came across me today (the thought not the feeling)
Maybe it is a kind of absence seizure?

 

[Nakamova]

I think with absence seizures the person usually isn't conscious of them when they happen. Absences are more like brain's power switch being flicked on and off for few seconds. You might be aware that one has happened, but not while it's happening.

The feeling you describe sounds more to me like a simple partial where there's an altered psychic or sensory state. There's also the possibility that it may not even be strictly classifiable in seizure terms.

There have been occasions (relatively rare) when I have had uneasy feelings of being almost "on the edge" of having a seizure. During the times when this occurs I feel as if I have try hard to maintain attention, and there's this sense of repeatedly trying to focus on the moment in case I do have a seizure -- but at the same time it's difficult to do so, almost like struggling to recall a dream. It's not easy to describe this feeling, so I'm not sure if this is at all similar to what you have felt. My take is that this might be be a "pre-pre-pre-seizure" feeling, perhaps when my dose is too low. Something is going on but it's not quite a seizure, and I am fully-functioning (if not exactly at my best) while it's happening.

 

[seagull]

Another thing I get is I don't feel real which can lead on to panic aura.I used to take phenigan for hay fever many years ago that made me feel like not real aswel and I told hay fever Meds can cause problems I not take them now,at the time it was not known as contra indication.As said I will talk school French I not sure if that is part of aura or I. So damn scared I going feel unreal and aura will start I push my brain do something not dwell on it.i not sure if it works or catch 22.TIredness most certainly kick something off either unreal or twitch by the eye,the twitch anyone can have often non epilepsy people but I prefer that than feeling I not real

 

[seagull]

I sorry my grammar again ipad taken over and I got no control it making me look terrible