Is anyone else struggling with not being able to feel like your in your body.

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TheThinker · 56-60, M

Sounds as if you may have Depersonalisation Disorder

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41384979

For those with it, the world can change in an instant.

"It was a sudden flick of a switch. Things felt really alien and threatening," says Sarah.

"Suddenly your flat or somewhere that is very, very familiar to you will suddenly feel like a film set, and your possessions feel like props."

Others have terrifying out-of-body experiences, feel like their own body parts don't belong to them and even see the world in 2D - as if it were flat.

For Sarah, this is what happened during her second episode.

"I was reading, holding a book, and suddenly my hands looked like a picture of a pair of hands.

"I felt this separation between the physical world and my perception of it."

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization_disorder and the links from there to Depersonalisation and Derealization... it sounds like the latter may be more what you might have.

Seabird · 36-40, F

@TheThinker What is a depersonalization disorder?
Depersonalization/derealization disorder is a type of dissociative disorder that consists of persistent or recurrent feelings of being detached (dissociated) from one's body or mental processes, usually with a feeling of being an outside observer of one's life (depersonalization)

This is 100% how I've felt since I was very little...