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June 16, 2015, I have seen hell twice on a drug trip and been questioning my existence. But, this experience brought me to the Lord, and my life has transformed and Im living for Jesus with everything I have. After this experience, I found that I was experiencing depersonalization. It feels like I don't exist. Anxiety and stress makes it worse. It is hard sometimes to drive, eat swallow, breathe....irrational fears. I'm questioning my existence. I need to talk to someone that has gone through the same thing. I feel all alone. I pray hours a day, fast, read God's word....I'm trying to do everything I can to get breakthrough. I feel hopeless and discouraged and that I will not make it through. I am going to Christ for the Nations in Dallas and know God has a call in my life.
 

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I feel all alone. I pray hours a day, fast, read God's word....I'm trying to do everything I can to get breakthrough.

I'm going to post the response I made in your Introduction thread, where you also mentioned stress:

The answer to stress is rest. The answer to fear is faith, and faith works through love. If your efforts are not bringing results, you may need to calm down and trust that God is working it out. Keep doing what you can, but make sure it's in the power of the Spirit, rather than in self-effort. The former will heal you, the latter will wear you out. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, by those who make peace -Jas 3

I've been through this, and my greatest advances were made in times of weakness, when I simply trusted God and bathed myself in His love (see 2Cor 12). It took time, but God does things the right way.
 
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Breathe. The first thing to do when you begin to panic is breathe.... focus upon your breath...slow, easy, breathe... often we hold out breath without realizing it and this makes things feel "more unreal" ... lack of oxygen...

and the breathing will help ease the stress chemicals you are telling your brain to dump into your body... the brain has no opinion of it's own and only makes the chemicals your mind tells it to... so IF you can begin to tell yourself a "mantra" over and over (you pick it) "Calm. Calm. I am Calm" or "God is in control, breathe. God is in control." You can over come those chemicals enough to get your bearings.

Christ for All Nations is not a bad organization... but your panic attacks MIGHT, just might be connected to your plans to go. Stop. Rest (like Paul1149 said)... Be Still and let God speak to you... Don't worry about hurrying to do something as God is always right on time.
 
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June 16, 2015, I have seen hell twice on a drug trip and been questioning my existence. But, this experience brought me to the Lord, and my life has transformed and Im living for Jesus with everything I have. After this experience, I found that I was experiencing depersonalization. It feels like I don't exist. Anxiety and stress makes it worse. It is hard sometimes to drive, eat swallow, breathe....irrational fears. I'm questioning my existence. I need to talk to someone that has gone through the same thing. I feel all alone. I pray hours a day, fast, read God's word....I'm trying to do everything I can to get breakthrough. I feel hopeless and discouraged and that I will not make it through. I am going to Christ for the Nations in Dallas and know God has a call in my life.

There was a time a few years back, where I had a similar situation. I was an anti psychotic medication, and it caused me, to shake, have trouble swallowing, and this gave me great anxiety, due to the fear that I may not be able to control my body in public. As a Christian I had a fear that maybe I was not living up to the standard, and felt that all of these symptoms, were possibly demonic, or a sort of punishment from God. In reality the symptoms were caused by medication, as the medication was reduced, the symptoms also went away. In your case it may be that the drugs you were using have impacted your body. All I can suggest is that you pray that God heals you, I have seen Him heal people of incurable diseases, by prayer alone. If you like I will pray along with you for healing of the symptoms.
 
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June 16, 2015, I have seen hell twice on a drug trip and been questioning my existence. But, this experience brought me to the Lord, and my life has transformed and Im living for Jesus with everything I have. After this experience, I found that I was experiencing depersonalization. It feels like I don't exist. Anxiety and stress makes it worse. It is hard sometimes to drive, eat swallow, breathe....irrational fears. I'm questioning my existence. I need to talk to someone that has gone through the same thing. I feel all alone. I pray hours a day, fast, read God's word....I'm trying to do everything I can to get breakthrough. I feel hopeless and discouraged and that I will not make it through. I am going to Christ for the Nations in Dallas and know God has a call in my life.
Well I have dealt with depersonalization plenty. But what i found out is this. If you are of Christ, your identity is Rooted in Him. So therefore sometimes feeling that is coming from losing the worldly you or the things you only thought made you who you are, just pray and continue doing the best you can and if you already have not, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. Do not feel like others have not experienced something identical or similar, but even if they have not, remember that Jesus knows what you are going through, He knows everything! Praise God! But yea do not worry, maybe you will find who you really are since all the things that you thought made you who you are may not be, you are who God says you are! A servant, one who is greatly, and I mean greatly loved by God. Remove the sin from your life as much as you can, get close to God as much as you can, ask Him to show you what you need, He WILL provide so do not worry about this feeling, it will be okay as long as you stay with Christ , my friend. Remember even if you had to suffer for 100 years straight, it is nothing compared to the awesomeness of God, if only we could see beyond our own minds , beyond our understanding, but hey, remember that God can see beyond what we can,
Isaiah 55:8-9 King James Version (KJV)
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Remember that this can come from you realizing that the things you thought made you who you are truly do not make you , only God makes a man good. So allow Him to show you who you are, is it not so beautiful that we can not even know who we are and God will love us so much to show us who we are and who He will make us to be . All for His glory and awesomeness! It is going to be okay. :] I know I have had some scary depersonalization. So I know what you are going through .

All that matters is that you know Christ, and that you have been cleaned of your sins by His coming into the flesh, in the world, living among us, and His sacrifice on the cross and ressurection from the dead. He lives . And He always will. ALWAYS. God will ALWAYS live, Christ will ALWAYS live, and He will ALWAYS be there, nothing will ever change that, it is very comforting. No matter how far you get or how much you suffer, if you have Him, nothing can ever pluck you out of His hand, or take you away. So just repent and you will not have to worry about the bad things, and if you are being convicted on things you are doing, that is the Holy Spirit telling you, we are not supposed to grieve it, you can literally feel it when you grieve the Holy Spirit, it feels terrible. I do not speak from a position over you, just as a person who has been through something the same or similar, and had so much guilt, pain, fear, and all that, and I want it to change too. Just repent, and be in His hands! We can do it together. Remember that I am going through problems too, we may not have the same ones, but either way.
 
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When I took acid, I saw my friend transform into the devil, the air turn dark reddish black, the hallway by my room on fire and heard him speak to me in a rap song.

I made a vow that I was giving my life to christ and it went away and light appeared.

Sometimes it feels weird in life, but we have to trust in god, and keep pushing. This life is not easy and we are not of it. I'm very positive and happy and right now I feel like I dont be long and people dont understand me.

Only he does and these dark nights of the souls are going to happen and usually leads to a stronger version. Much love, god bless and I hope he heals your situation friend.
 
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June 16, 2015, I have seen hell twice on a drug trip and been questioning my existence. But, this experience brought me to the Lord, and my life has transformed and Im living for Jesus with everything I have. After this experience, I found that I was experiencing depersonalization. It feels like I don't exist. Anxiety and stress makes it worse. It is hard sometimes to drive, eat swallow, breathe....irrational fears. I'm questioning my existence. I need to talk to someone that has gone through the same thing. I feel all alone. I pray hours a day, fast, read God's word....I'm trying to do everything I can to get breakthrough. I feel hopeless and discouraged and that I will not make it through. I am going to Christ for the Nations in Dallas and know God has a call in my life.
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Yes I deal with this it gets so bad sometimes I feel like I'm going to spontaneously combust and I am saved I actually pastor a church it's the most ungodly is feeling I've ever felt I get it mostly at night a lot of times when I drive. My job requires me to drive at night it's awful my vision seems to be leaving me especially my sanity my mind. I can go through a drive-thru and get food and as soon as I eat it it feels like crazy it's too intense the taste of it drives me insane this stuff's crazy. It all started five years ago with severe Blasphemous thoughts that never seem to want to go away the more I fear them the more they came. Now I do feel hopeless it feels like it has swallowed me up hopelessness praying fasting with no hope with no relief in sight I know who I am in Christ but yet that doesn't change the way I feel. Which I know the Bible says we walk by faith not by feelings but still this stuff will make you feel absolutely numb especially when there's no pleasure in anything you're completely numb you've become like a space Case like you're on some drug trip that you can't get off of no matter what you do
 
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