Feeling like your hands are big. I am in a strange state, as if I am not in my body. Independent disorder or symptom of mental pathology

Autometamorphopsia is a disorder of the body diagram, i.e., a disturbance in the perception of the size, shape of one’s own body and its individual parts, as well as the position of the body and its parts in space. Includes a number of symptoms that can be combined with each other. Manifestations of total autometamorphopsia are:

macrosomia- a feeling of increasing size of your entire body. This sensation may be barely noticeable to patients, but in some cases their own body seems gigantic to them, incredibly huge, occupying, for example, the entire space of a large room, but even it does not seem to them to contain the entire body. At the same time, all parts of the body are perceived to be enlarged evenly, their shape also seems to be unchanged. The body, however, is perceived as one’s own, and the experience of its alienation usually does not arise. Patients can say, however, that they feel their body with some previously unusual clarity, unusual, previously unnoticed acuteness and as if it had become closer than usual. Sometimes, however, an enlarged body or a larger part of the body is perceived as “alien”, “foreign” objects;

microsomia- a feeling of reduction in the size of your body. This sensation can also be barely noticeable to patients, but sometimes the body seems to them vanishingly small, “microscopic” and at the same time removed from the sense of self, sometimes turning into something like a point. Thus, while walking, a patient feels like such a “short person” that she is afraid of hitting her head on the asphalt or drowning in a puddle of water after rain. Sometimes patients feel their own body as if it were not theirs, something foreign to them.

Symptoms of partial autometamorphopsia are much more common:

macromelia- a feeling of an increase in the size of one hand or both hands. It happens that part of the hand appears enlarged. So, when falling asleep, the patient feels an enlarged hand right hand: “The fist seems so huge that I’m afraid it might crush me with its weight”;

macropedia- a feeling of increasing size of one leg or both legs (feet, feet);

micromelia- a feeling of reduction in the size of one arm or both arms (hands, hands);

micropedia- a feeling of reduction in the size of one leg or both legs (feet, feet);

macroglossia- feeling of an increase in the size of your tongue;

microglossia- feeling of a decrease in the size of your tongue;

macrocephalopsia- feeling of an increase in the size of your head. Some patients compare the feeling of enlargement of the head, disproportionate to the perception of the body, with the head of a hero from A.S. Pushkin’s fairy tale;

microcephalopsia- a feeling of a decrease in the size of your head, sometimes quite significant.

E. Bleuler describes a patient who for a long time I was afraid to go outside. It seemed to him that his head was very small, the size of a grain of millet. After much convincing, he finally agreed that his head was normal. However, he was still in no hurry to go outside. He explained it this way: “I know now that everything is fine with my head, but the birds don’t understand that.” In this case, it is clear that the disturbance of perception was transformed into a persistent belief, into delusions of a physical disability.

Similar disturbances may occur in relation to the perception of other parts of the body: lips, nose, fingers, ears, chest, abdomen, upper or lower half torso, genitals, etc.

The perception of the shape of your body and its individual parts may be impaired - autodysmorphopsia. The body (parts of the body) seem disproportionate to patients, elongated, shortened, thickened, thinned, curved. For example, the head seems “square, elongated, flattened, egg-shaped”, the nose - “elongated, pointed, sunken, becoming like a potato”, the chest - “sunken, sunken”, the back - “humpbacked”, the pelvis - “ in the shape of an oval, compressed from the sides,” etc. A patient with suspected rheumatic fever says that as soon as she closes her eyes, she completely loses normal feeling of your body. It seems to her like something like a puddle of ink that spreads across the chair, drips onto the floor, and then spreads on the floor into a shapeless spot.

At organic disorder Discriminative sensitivity is described by Klein's symptom (1930): the leg on the side of the injury is perceived to be increased in volume, significantly larger than the leg in which sensitivity is preserved.

Finally, sometimes contrasting autometamorphopsia occurs, when sensations of enlargement and reduction of body parts are combined with each other.

The perception of the position of body parts in space is often disrupted - bodily allesthesia. For example, the head seems to be turned with the back of the head forward, the legs - with their toes turned back, the tongue - curled into a tube, the hands - behind the back, the ears - sticking out “like a hare’s”. The patient says that when closed eyes he feels the body with its back forward, and the head turned in the opposite direction. Another sick says that when he closes his eyes, he feels as if his legs are raised up, they cover his neck and are tied around it in a “knot.”

There is also such a disorder as splitting of body perception or, which is the same thing, in terms of self-consciousness, somatopsychic dissociation. With this disorder, individual parts of the body feel disconnected from each other. For example, the head is perceived at some distance from the body, “the lid of the skull rises up and hangs in the air,” the eyes “come out of their sockets and are 10 cm in front of the face.” When walking, the patient feels as if Bottom part the body lags behind the top or moves somewhere to the side. The body in general can be perceived as a kind of mechanical conglomerate of its individual parts; it seems as if glued together, crumbling, something like a children's house made of cubes, which can fall apart at any moment. This experience resembles Jaspers's symptom of splitting perception, as if indicating its nature, namely: a symptom of a dissociated self.

Sometimes the disorder concerns the perception of speed, smoothness and amplitude of movements of one’s body and its parts. Thus, steps seem to the patient to be excessively large, “giant,” or, on the contrary, small, “short,” gestures seem sweeping, wide or unusually spare, as if inconspicuous, “mental.” With a slight shake of the head, it “seems like it’s about to fall off,” the arms “scatter to the sides,” the hands don’t just tremble, they seem to be “shaking.” The movements seem fast, rapid or slow, “turtle-like”, although in reality they do not change or are, on the contrary, somewhat slowed or accelerated. Some patients do not seem to be aware of the inadequate sensations of their movements; it seems to them that the acceleration or deceleration of movement is characteristic of some external objects or other people. In other words, we're talking about about the alienation of one’s own feelings, about their projection, i.e. about depersonalization. Other patients report that changes in the perception of the speed of their own movements are accompanied by the feeling that the speed of movements of others around them is also changing in the same way. In such cases, depersonalization is also observed, but not in the form of projection, but in the form of transitivism. There are patients who report that they have ceased to feel the smoothness of their movements; the latter seem to them intermittent and jerky.

The perception of the nature of movements may be impaired. Thus, a syndrome of dynamic disturbances of the body diagram has been described (Razdolsky, 1935), when clonic convulsions of the limbs in Bravais-Jackson epilepsy are perceived as circular, helical movements by them. Some patients exhibit a disturbance in the perception of symmetry relationships.

In patients in acute phase organic damage brain, as well as with focal left hemisphere lesions, Hartmann's symptom is sometimes detected when patients lose orientation in the right-left. The symptom resembles a violation of orientation in space with similar problems for patients.

Finally, there are disorders of the localization of sensations in own body. Thus, with tactile allesthesia, the ability to localize tactile stimuli in the limbs is impaired - topanesthesia (allocastesia) or these stimuli are perceived at a symmetrical point on the other half of the body - allochiria (alloesthesia). A similar disorder exists with regard to pain. For example, toothache felt by the patient on the opposite side of the jaw - alloalgia. Also interesting is a frequent disorder known as Minor’s symptom - a violation of the localization of somatic sensations that accompany emotions. Thus, patients sometimes localize fear during an epileptic attack in the leg, arm, tongue or eyes. Some patients with depression place sadness in the hip, side, somewhere between the shoulder blades, and anxiety in the lower abdomen or throat area.

Sometimes I have an “attack of accelerated perception of time.” (The name was invented by me, don’t focus your attention). This has happened to me as long as I can remember, in childhood, in adolescence etc. This happens spontaneously! Always within 5-10 minutes. Everything just speeds up, people do everything faster, including myself, even the thoughts in my head go faster! Every word I hear sounds very quickly, but at the same time I understand everything. Everything speeds up 2-3 times. It's like I feel like I'm in third person in a faster fourth dimension (I don't know how to describe it). I feel awkward and a little scared, although this happens rarely, it scares me. I feel like I'm about to go crazy.

Hello. The condition you described is most likely alarming - neurotic syndrome(disorder), to put it simply - “anxiety neurosis”. This is psychosomatic or, more precisely, psychogenic disorder, in which your body (organism) reacts in this way to psychological difficulties or a stressful situation.
In order for these problems to go away, you need to find the reasons that trigger them and try to eliminate them as soon as possible. And it’s unlikely to do this without the help of an experienced psychotherapist. And a competent and individual psychotherapeutic program will include not only a search for the causes of this condition, but also their elimination through synthesis modern methods psychotherapy in the first place (drug support is extremely rarely required).
To treat such neuroses today, both systemic therapy and cognitive-behavioral or existential psychotherapy, etc. are effectively used.
But to do this, you need to contact a specialized specialist, a psychotherapist, and better not for a virtual consultation by correspondence, but as part of a face-to-face clinical consultation or at least in the format of a teleconsultation on Skype.

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Hello! My name is Alexey, I am 35 years old. A year ago I moved to Spain for permanent residence, in the southern region. A year ago, last August at 11 o’clock in the morning I went about my business on foot along the street and without a headdress. The heat is 40 degrees. I was under the scorching sun for about half an hour. I don’t like heat, but I haven’t had any problems with this before. Suddenly I felt that in 15 seconds I would lose consciousness. I went into the first store with air conditioning and waited for about five minutes. But we had to move on. I got out and walked towards the next store with air conditioning. After 100 m I felt that I would lose consciousness in 10-15 seconds. I thought I would fall and they wouldn’t save me; a couple of people died from the heat that summer. I pulled myself together, tuned in for 20 seconds, the store was nearby, and in the mood I walked to the next store. I cooled down a bit and went home. From that day it all began. The next day I was afraid to go outside. In the gym, while doing squats, I felt dizzy and thought I would lose consciousness. I became afraid to train with weights, I thought my heart wouldn’t stand it. A few days later in the evening I felt empty, as if I was not in my body. The feeling that you are about to die. This happened very often and mostly towards night. Donated blood for full analysis, ECG, underwent a full cardio test on a bicycle and ultrasound of the heart - everything is in order. Just not quite good at aerobic endurance. Now after each workout with weights, 20 minutes on an exercise bike. Since that very day I have been in a strange state, as if I am 5 percent out of my body. That is, something is missing quite a bit to become my former self. More is noticed in the evening. I think about death almost constantly. I almost never thought about this before. I am building a house in Spain without permission from the mayor's office. I'm in constant voltage how will this end, will I be able to pay the fine. The fine is impressive, equal to the cost of the apartment. Annoying loud sounds. I hear what is quiet for my wife on TV. In stressful situations, there was a stabbing sensation in the left side, and there were panic attacks. A state of emptiness and that you are about to die. It's been a few weeks high blood pressure. I measured constantly. I don’t measure it now and have completely forgotten. Help. I want to return to myself and my previous state. Sometimes you don't want to live. How to get out this state? What treatment will you prescribe? Is it even possible to return to the previous state?

Hello! When stressed, the body produces a hormone, the main function of which is to make the body survive. Stress is a normal part human life and is required in certain quantities. If the totality of the challenges of fate and complex tasks becomes very large, then a person’s ability to cope with these tasks is gradually lost. When anxieties and fears begin to suppress a person and influence his daily life, so-called anxiety disorders may occur. Anxiety disorders, including panic states, fear of losing a job, specific fears, post-traumatic, obsessive-compulsive disorders and general state concerns are regarded as chronic diseases which can progress without treatment. On this moment exist effective methods their treatment. Generalized anxiety usually develops gradually and is not usually a direct consequence of any specific causeless fear(phobias). Two main signs of stress and anxiety state This is uncontrollable anxiety and restlessness. Symptoms may also include muscle tension, fatigue, irritability, impatience, or sleep disturbances and difficulty concentrating. Stress and anxiety can lead to panic attacks, which are characterized by pain or discomfort in the chest, rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, shallow breathing, feeling short of air, suffocating, chills or sharp increase fever, trembling, nausea, numbness or tingling sensation in the extremities. Panic attacks are most common in people with weak system protection from stress when nervous system There is a lack of special substances (and norepinephrine) that help withstand physical and emotional discomfort. Currently, experts believe that the most the best way cope with panic attacks - a combination of medication (with the help of medications) and non-drug treatment. Medicinal method consists in the doctor selecting the right antidepressant, which is usually taken for a long period - from three months to a year - and allows you to regulate the level of serotonin and. Concerning non-drug methods treatment, you should first of all highlight consultations with a psychotherapist, as well as rational organization mode of life. Learn to cope with stressful situations, use relaxation techniques, such as deep, even breathing. Give yourself enough time to recover from stress. Exercise regularly. By doing so, you will improve your health and well-being and increase your body's ability to respond to stress. Do not consume alcohol or legal drugs. Limit your caffeine intake as it can increase anxiety. Learn to face your fears.

We like people who are a little crazy, eccentric and ready to do crazy things. At the same time, we ourselves are terribly afraid of going crazy. True madmen always seem to us to be unbalanced psychos placed in special institutions, isolated from “normality”. At the same time, we know very well that many brilliant people, artists, scientists and musicians have always been a little crazy. We all have our quirks and we all have a little bit of crazy in us. Let's recognize a time bomb together!

1. I'm afraid of going crazy

Daily stresses do not go unnoticed by the body. We are afraid of everything: a kettle forgotten on the stove, an iron not turned off, an urgent report at work, a trip to the dentist, terrorist threats, natural disasters, etc. We get upset over little things and it seems that just a little more and our nerves will not be able to stand it, and something will happen. something irreversible. Everyday portions of stress, like layers in a pie, fit into our heads, and the state panic fear becomes almost chronic. From people who long time are in such under stress You can often hear “I'm afraid of going crazy.”

This is exactly how neurosis manifests itself, it hides in fears, sometimes deep and understandable only to our subconscious, and manifests itself after a series of stresses. The phenomenon is often temporary and certainly familiar to each of us firsthand. Constant hysterics are replaced by attacks panic attacks, and sometimes psychosomatics comes into play and then it becomes no laughing matter. Endless searches for diseases and trips from doctor to doctor can really drive you crazy.

Fear of visiting a doctor is also no less common - iatrophobia. Watch the video!

2. Love to the point of madness

Love is blind, so madness has to lead it by the hand. And even regardless of age, madness sometimes becomes a guide for a loving heart. Attacks of jealousy, the inability to withstand separation and tearful streams of joy just from looking at a loved one - some will say that this is a manifestation of real feelings, while others will see a painful obsession with the object of love. From such a love disorder all sorts of sad stories happen in the style of “Romeo and Juliet” or “don’t let anyone get you.” On long life Such painful relationships are definitely not doomed. But their creators and perpetrators - the lovers themselves - risk either being cured or completely going off the rails.

3. Unrecognized genius

All brilliant people are partly crazy, but not all crazy people are brilliant people! It happens that a person considers himself not just exceptionally creative, but a real genius. I wrote one banal and frankly mediocre book or picked up paints for the first time, smearing them on the canvas, imagining myself to be the new Cezanne. When the crown has already been put on, but there has not yet been a reason for the coronation, this is an alarming sign! "Star stories" of some unrecognized geniuses make us ignore them creative activity, but to attract attention to yourself in other ways. They make shocking attacks, put on uncomfortable masquerade costumes and firmly believe in their special destiny. It’s good if an understanding of reality still returns to them, and the whisper of madness only adds ideas for creative implementation. But this does not always happen, and some are forced to remain misunderstood. Although, perhaps their time simply has not come. After all, the notorious Giordano Bruno was understood only 300 years after... he was burned.

4. I am bad

Failures at work, personal life is not working out. What's the matter? Psychologists teach us to look for problems within ourselves, so people find them, but not always with the right side. This is how legends with curses and damage are born, and the sufferers themselves label themselves “losers” and “wreaths of celibacy.” Suggestion is a powerful thing. And the sad look and endless conversations about problems (which, by the way, absolutely everyone has!) good people they don’t attract and don’t make life brighter. If on initial stage“I am bad” syndrome can still be cured on your own active work over oneself, then in a prolonged form it can be very contagious, provoking a lazy, dull existence and real psychosis.

5. Workaholism and other addictions

We all know very well that drunkenness and drug addiction begin mainly due to internal problems and the inability to cope with them on your own. All this is dangerous and requires serious medical and psychological treatment. “I don’t drink or use drugs, so everything is fine with my head, there’s no addiction,” you think and go to work again on Saturday. You love your job, which means you don’t do anything bad. Meanwhile, psychologists have long equated workaholism with neuropsychiatric disease. And this dangerous epidemic is now reigning all over the world. Working with your head is also a unique way to escape from problems. Behind such a frantic work rhythm, a workaholic often awaits emotional burnout, decreased sexual activity, insomnia and health problems on fertile nervous soil.

6. Wanderlust

What do children do when they want to protest, when they have problems with their parents or classmates, when it seems to them that they are not understood and the whole world is against them. They literally run away from problems. They run away from home. A child's way out of any situation, if suddenly reality begins to press, also works in adults and, if you do not pay attention to it, results in real deviation. . Many often change jobs, some change girlfriends or lovers, and some change entire cities. Once having escaped from psychological trauma, a person can continue to run away from any situation simply impulsively, while losing what is dear to him and parting with what is important to him.

7. Distracted man from Basseynaya street

Not only do all madmen have their eccentricities, strange habits, they are also extremely forgetful and absent-minded. At a minimum, forgetting the birthdays of loved ones and friends is in their spirit. Psychologists, as a result of long and painful experiments, have found that poor memory and inability to learn are very alarming signs. Such violations are directly related to malfunction brain and thus send SOS signals.

And yet, each of us sometimes lacks a little bit of madness... But it’s still better when your madness brings pleasure and pleasant surprises to your loved ones, and for this always remain sober and of good memory!

Déjà vu is a memory of the present

(c) Henri Bergson, philosopher

Many of you are probably interested in what is deja vu. According to statistics, 97% of people have experienced this condition. I won’t be mistaken if I say that you are most likely familiar with it too.

And the more you engage in spiritual practices, the brighter and deeper deja vu becomes.

It would seem that this is simply a state lasting a few seconds, occurring in the most ordinary situations and then disappearing without a trace. It does no harm, and does not seem to bring any noticeable benefit.

Why does it excite our minds so much?

What is deja vu - a brain error or a secret message from the soul?

Read the article to the end, and truly... good news!

Translated from French, “déjà vu” means “already seen.” A very accurate name - this is how this mental phenomenon manifests itself.

In a new situation you have a problem strong feeling, What “all this has already happened to you”. It’s as if every sound, every element of the environment is physically familiar to you.

And you even “remember” what will happen in a few seconds. And when “it” happens, there is a feeling that everything goes as it should.

And even, as a rule, the thought “I’ve already seen this” or “I’m having déjà vu” occurs to you.

Write in the comments if you are experiencing déjà vu and what signs usually accompany it

Deja vu may be accompanied change in perception. For example, increased sharpness of colors or sounds. Or, on the contrary, some “vagueness” of reality.

Sometimes it boosts your confidence and mental stability, sometimes it causes short-term confusion.

But one thing can be said for sure - it does not leave you indifferent. People who have experienced déjà vu usually remember these moments well and treat them as something unusual.

The answer to the question “what is deja vu” is devoted to books, articles, Scientific research…

Moreover, physiologically, it rarely lasts more than 10 seconds.

Can you imagine what the depth and meaning of a phenomenon must be for it to excite humanity so much?

Multidimensional consciousness is the ability to be “aware” of more than one dimension. And many of you HAVE experience of its manifestation.

Is déjà vu a memory error?

Modern scientific research allows us to track what happens in the human brain during déjà vu.

When this happens you have simultaneously areas of the brain that are responsible for perception sensory signals present(“this is happening now”), and for long-term memory(“I’ve known this for a long time”).

Doctors tracked a “dysfunctional electrical impulse” in the area of ​​the middle temporal lobe and hippocampus (areas responsible for memory and recognition). It is he who gives a “false signal” about the exact memory of what is happening.

Since the memory zone is hyperactive at this time and its signal is even slightly ahead of perception, a feeling of “recognizing the future” a few seconds ahead is created.

In general, the conclusions converge to the following: déjà vu is an inexplicable, but rather harmless, memory error.

But still, Why does it arise? Scientists have no answer.

However, there are interesting experimental data on playing déjà vu in laboratory conditions.

The participants were shown certain sounds and pictures, and then, under hypnosis, they were forced to do so. forget.

When they were shown the same signals again, people activated the above areas of the brain and a feeling of “déjà vu” arose.

It turns out that déjà vu is not a new memory, but a forgotten and reactivated memory?

But when did this happen to us and why did we forget?

Some psychologists put forward the version that déjà vu is a manifestation of the work of the subconscious. For example, it calculated the expected development of some ordinary everyday situation. That is, you “lived it” in some way.

Then deja vu simply turns on when this situation arises, and is just a small glimpse of intuition.

However, this does not explain such complete sensory immersion in the detailed process of “memory.” Although, as we will see later, the assumption is not without meaning.

There is also an opinion that the phenomenon of déjà vu is associated with memories from dreams. It was promoted, for example, by such a “bison” as Sigmund Freud.

According to his version, déjà vu occurs as a memory reaction to what is seen in a dream. The dream, in turn, had a real basis from pieces of your early real past.

An indirect confirmation of this can be the fact that some eyewitnesses of déjà vu describe their sensations as “a simultaneous experience of the present moment and memories of a dream in which they lived this moment.”

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Is deja vu an imprint of past lives?

I cannot ignore another interesting version.

Some experts associate deja vu and past lives, as well as ancestral memory (genetic).

Freud's contemporary Carl Jung described sudden memories of “his parallel life as an 18th-century doctor.” He suddenly “remembered” places and phenomena, for example, boots in an illustration in a book.

Tina Turner in Egypt and Madonna in the imperial palace of China recognized landscapes and objects “from their past.”

Is this evidence of déjà vu? pure form, or they simply indicate the existence of past lives, we cannot say. However, this is another piece of the puzzle.

Hypnotherapist and regression therapist Dolores Cannon believes that the soul, before incarnation, makes a certain plan for its future life. And moments of déjà vu serve as a reminder of the path you have chosen.

What is regression; what problems can be solved with its help; what abilities and talents are revealed during regression sessions.

Deja vu is your spiritual beacon on the way!

Let's summarize. Where have we come to in our reasoning?

Déjà vu is a phenomenon of perception. It occurs as an electrical impulse in the brain - a reaction to a new situation that seems familiar to the smallest detail.

Deja vu has some relation to the subconscious, dreams and past lives, but it is impossible to “grasp” it more precisely.

Déjà vu is a vivid experience unlike any other. It resembles magic, something unusual that happens to you in the most seemingly ordinary conditions.

The last and most important piece is added to us by spiritual sources.

Word to Kryon:

“Mentally place your experience of “now” in a huge spherical space, where everything you have done and all the potentials of the future are glued to inner surface ball.

Now place yourself in the center of the ball and look around. At this point there is no predestination, but there is plenty ways of opportunity.

But because you look at everything (esoterically), you "feel" it, and in fact you have a kind of multidimensional foresight of what can happen depending on the path you choose.

Even if you sit and read these words in normal reality, a part of you always remains in that ball, although you are not aware of it.

So when some potentials do eventually come to fruition, part of you says, “I've been in this situation before! Wow! Deja vu!

In fact you just find out built by you for yourself and previously felt potentials, which are now manifesting in your linear reality."

Lee Carroll (Kryon). Act or wait

So, the puzzle has come together.

Déjà vu is a manifestation of your own multidimensional spiritual plane.

At the same time we remind you,

• What you are more than you seem;
• that there is no time, and the future, past and present are merged together;