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  2. Dec 7, 2023 · Do you think, "I feel like I'm losing my mind?" Learn the signs, how stress and anxiety can play a role, and how to cope when it feels like you're losing your mind.

  3. Oct 19, 2018 · Energy Transition. A neuroscientist who lost her mind says it can happen to anyone. The false distinction between physical and mental illness is fueling a global crisis. Image: Reuters/Chris...

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    • Mental illness. A variety of mental illnesses can make you feel like you are losing touch with reality. They can cause you to misinterpret reality, feel emotions that don’t reflect reality accurately, or do things entirely outside your nature.
    • Stress. The long-term effects of stress are well-studied. When a person is under stress, their brain fires off a response to produce a bunch of hormones and chemicals to deal with the threat.
    • Rumination. Do you ever feel like you drive yourself crazy? You just latch on to a particular thought, usually negative, and just keep spinning it around and around in your head?
    • Overthinking. Similar to rumination, overthinking can cause you to feel like you’re losing your mind. The difference is that overthinking is often rooted in the future or past.
  4. Sep 19, 2024 · When you don’t have mental resources left to process additional things, you feel like you’re losing your mind. This feeling of having your container full or nearly full is destabilizing, disorienting, confusing, and overwhelming.

  5. Feb 23, 2017 · Luckily, there are a number of things you can do to prevent this from happening to you. You can’t (or shouldn’t) diagnose yourself, but reading up on and researching mental illness can be a good way for you to work out what it is you might be experiencing.

  6. Oct 5, 2021 · You might be losing your mind due to the chaotic thoughts that manipulate and distort your perception about reality. This can be the result of depression, anxiety, or sudden mood changes. People lose their minds due to unfortunate or shocking events that collapse their inner world.

  7. Nov 16, 2020 · Usually, the most effective way to shift your mind is to focus on something else entirely. For example, you could pick an object in the room and start listing every tiny detail you...

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