My body feels foreign to me ,. . .

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like an unnatural encasement with bad connections.



Like one of these exoskeletal machines, but rustier than this one. It feels like I am consciously manipulating my body and forcing my movements. Almost as if I'm aware of gravity pulling me down all the time.

Anyone else experience this?

I feel like my limbs are heavy and my body is weighed down. I struggle to make my body move. I think my 'home planet' had less gravity -_- .

Sometime even breathing feels weird. And sometimes I stop breathing for a second and then it really feels strange, like I am hyper aware of it.

And some times my limbs feel wrong, like they are in the way and awkward and I wish I could take them off and put them on a shelf. Sometimes I have trouble getting to sleep because of my arms or legs. Does that make any sense?

Makes sense to me. I do that thing with stopping breathing too. It's like I have to remember to breathe. It feels unnatural.

At times I forget how to physically sequence parts of my body...arms, legs or neck. So my body seems like I am learning to move in that sequence for the first time, if I manage to move.

I am the puppetmaster, and when I cut the strings, the puppet collapses...

Yes, very much so. Everything below my head is foreign territory to me. But I have found that weight training has helped my mind to have a closer relationship with my body.

This happens to me when my anxiety is high. It's really unnerving.

These are all examples of somatic depersonalization and related phenomena. They are actually mentioned in Domain 3 of the EASE: Bodily Experiences.

http://www.nordlandssykehuset.no/getfil ... r/EASE.pdf

The OP's experience is 3.3 Somatic Depersonalization:

That's very interesting information, beneficii. Thank you, I will look into it.

I sometimes feel these:

3.4 Psychophysical Misfit and Psychophysical Split:
The body feels as if not really fitting, as either too small, too big, or otherwise uncomfortable or somehow changed. This is usually, but not always, associated with a feeling that mind and body do not fi t or belong together, as if they were somehow disconnected, or independent of each other.

3.6 Spatialization of Bodily Experiences:
Predominance of experiencing the body or its parts as a physical object (physical/spatial), at the expense of the spiritual-lived, non-spatial, lived bodily experiences. The patient may here experience a kind of unusual introspective access to normally mute body parts or physiological processes (e.g. the patient experiences his internal organs or physiological processes).

Despite all my hypersensitivity issues, i often feel like i have a robot body.

I relate to the feeling of having to consciously make an effort to move my body or show a facial expression.

This phenomenon gets worse when I am tired and when I am anxious - especially when I am around people that I feel will mock me.