Depersonalisation- distortion of size

[amathus]

Hi, I often feel as though I am taller than everything around me...almost giant-like.
I have times when my hands seem large and I stare at them intently for periods of time.....wierd!

qf.

[dib4uk]

Sometimes i feel that im thin and skinny when the reality is that im overweight... weird as well right?

[A.m.b.e.r]

Oh my goodness I get this sometimes when I am lying down, that my arms are skinny like twigs and my hands or sometimes my head is bigger than my body.

Reading this is making me cry, because I have had this for so long and had never mentioned it because I thought it was just stupid oh my goodness !

[checking-it-twice]

I get this sometimes when I'm lying down a night. Particularly with my head seeming bigger.
I thought I was the only one...

[maxitab]

This is another great aspect of the forum, we discover that something we thought was 'only me' is a shared experience. It makes me feel a bit less wierder than weird to know this!

[bec22]

When I am walking sometimes I feel like I am shrinking its really odd.

As to the things getting bigger and smaller there is actually a disorder called the Alice in Wonderland syndrome but I don't know of that is related to these feelings we get from DP.

Here is the link to that on wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_i...rland_syndrome

[prairiechick]

Last summer I would go back and forth between depersonalization and derealization. Sometimes I would feel like I was in a shell of glass, like tinted car windows where you can see out, but no one can see in. I felt like I was invisible. I would be at church, literally standing in a crowd and bumping into people (that's how full church was last summer), and feel that no one could see me. Other times I would feel like my church was totally foreign to me, even though I'd been attending for 6 years, and all the familiar people looked like strangers to me.

[Julielife]

Sometimes I 'd get the sensations that my hands would feel really big, puffy like. Even other body parts, the extremities would feel much larger.
I found over the years it would get more intense, with more unique sensations. Once when I was in the hospital when I would travel by train home on the weekends. For some reason it was worse on the moving train. But later I figured out it wasn't the train movement causing the depersonalizationwas. It was the stress of changing my dwelling. Over the years I have discovered the stress that triggers the depersonalization, I have dealt with the stresses and over time it happens less often! Long term exposure to extreme stress and anxiety or trauma open the doors to depersonalization.

[fmlfml]

So i'm not the only one huh?
I get this during my psychosis.
It's a very strange sensation, but it's not really just my hands.
It's like my senses or something get confused, esp when I close my eyes during these episodes.
Like, yeah hard to make sense out of wether stuff is big or small. Even though you know how big stuff is.
Weird stuff.