How I Recovered From 10 Years Of Depersonalization With No Medication
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2020
- Depersonalization disorder is known as dissociative disorder. The main symptoms are experiencing a detachment from reality, as though living in a never ending dream and/or a detachment from the self, as though the person was not real or not in their own body. There are many other various symptoms someone can have from this.
In this video I reveal what I experienced for 10 years and how I recovered.
This video is my own opinion based on my own experiences and is not meant to be a substitute for professional medical help. If you are experiencing issues mentioned in this video and it is creating problems in your life please seek help from a qualified therapist.
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hats off to you for surviving for 10 years and congratulations for your recovery. All of us fellow sufferers are true embodiment of how strong the will to live can be.
i don't think you will answer but how are you doing now ?
I have been suffering for 27 years and I do not wish to dishearten anyone. I am not giving up yet.
how much time did u had it ...what did u felt ? ,. have u recovered now ??
@@khaledhussain3214 19years
@@khaledhussain3214 what caused your onset and how old were you? How are you able to cope?
I've had this since I was 4, I'm 37 now! I had extreme childhood trauma, I was sh*t in the face with an Ak-47, drive by. I was also s*xually abu*ed by my 16 year old male cousin when I was 4-5 years old, I was ab*sed physically by parents, I've had pure o ocd, and ptsd, since I was 5, then later at 19, was diagnosed with sle lupus and fibromyalgia! I saw videos on here that said ocd causes this Disassociate disorder. 😢 I'm glad yours stopped. ❤ I'll keep praying for mine, and others who still suffer. 🙏🏾 ❤
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I’m just curious.. what causes what? Is the OCD the one that causes DID, or the other case around?
I’ve had it since I was around 4 years old too. I am also now 37. I always thought it was normal until I talked to my best friend and family about it. I wonder if it’s even curable at this point. Praying for your healing ❤️🩹💕
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God bless u , all will become well.
I’ve sent this to my family to try to explain what’s going on for me. It literally hits all the nails on the head!
It’s been 10 years for me too, and I’ve been looking for someone who has had this incredibly disorienting experience. It’s cathartic to hear someone describe it from the perspective of someone who’s been through it. Thank you. 🙏
Holly shit dude I'm 28 and after getting high off weed and having a panic attack, I finally realized what was going on. This has been increadibly help ful.
Based. What tf are they putting in weed nowadays😂. They are making alien grade packs with 30% thc and then we wonder why our brains are folding. They make this shit too strong.
@@Unity536fr I just wanted some starter shit to see what all the hype was about… fuck these new strands
I had is almost 30 years after my first time of trying that trash.
You have no idea how helpful this video was to me. I'm a 26 year old girl living in Sweden and I've struggled with derealisation, anxiety and depression for about 7 years and never really knew what it was I was going trough.The only thing I knew was that what I was feeling stopped me from finding a job, going to school some days and even not being able to leave my house as I was so scared I would "loose my mind" in public all off a sudden. Derealisation is not yet commonly known here in Sweden so I've been really finding it sooo tough to express my feelings to practically anyone even tough my mental state has gotten in the way of so many different opportunities in my life. To know that I am not alone, and that there is someone out there that can relate to me makes me tear up. I'm so incredibly grateful you made this video, I can't even describe it with words. Thank you.
Hej. Jag bor också i Sverige. Maila mig ifall du vill prata med någon :)
I'm so sorry angel
how are you doing now?
Hej! Jag bor också i Sverige, är 20 år och har haft dp/dr i mer än ett år nu! Kan inte prata med någon då ingen förstår, och känner mig som ett "skämt". Det är hemskt. Jag förstår dig så väl.
Don't worry...
In the same boat for around 10 years.....better late than never.....good that you landed in the right spot...the information here is straight on point....
Det er jätta konstigt at der er så mange svenskere der har det sådan. Jag er dansk och jeg har det på præcis samma vis. Vi burde gøre noget for at få dette ud så at flere mennesker vet hvad vi gr igjennom, och jag tror också at mange flere end vi aner har disse symptomer!
I’ve been in constant dissociation for 10 years too. This is the first thing I’ve ever seen that was actually helpful, and extremely so. Honestly thankyou so much wtf
This is impossible I cannot even do daily tasks with mild disaociation
I am in tears. I'm going thru this for months after a traumatic event and was having lapses in memory and thought I was losing my mind! The going to the room and forgetting what just happened thing/bursts of what feels like my brain fizzing out and brain fog/forgetfulness. I didn't know it was part of dpdr. Thank you❤
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Same here. I am crying while watching this. I have no idea this is what i have. I also experience brain fog too i dont remember some details of what I am doing. I hope you are doing well today. Sending hugs 🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️
Great job, thank you for having the courage to share your experience and what you learned from it!
Thanks for the video Rumzi!
thank you for existing, love the way you talk and explained, i can finally make sense of my experiences because of you
Beyond grateful you are making these videos!
This is very very valuable information. You are contributing so much to the world with this video. Thank you
The best explanation of the condition I’ve seen. Great job
Your video and the whole of the the presentation was very good!! I found this very helpful! I will be sharing your video with others who suffer with DP/DR!!!
Bro your amazing and I love you. I literally was just looking for someone who had these same symptoms and now I can relate so much. Thanks a million!!
Thank you so much for putting in the effort to create a holistic video on the topic! Excellently explained with clarity of articulation.
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Best video on dissociation I have seen thus far. I have had this issue for 20 years and for the first time in years you gave me hope.
Congratulations on coming through everything. And thank you so much for taking the time in sharing your knowledge, it has been a big help. God bless.
Best video re all this on RUclips. Thank you.
I’m only 18, I’ve been going through this for years without knowing. I thought this was just how I was as a person, thank you for opening up my mind and heart to realize that these thoughts and feelings aren’t who I really am.
very well done video. i think its a very good set up to get ideas for might be your personal cause and what you can do. yoga helped me a lot too. living alone can be detrimental if you tent to isolate. getting the right therapist is not easy. medication made it worse for me. 8 years now. with around 40 moments without dp/dr. triggered by an LSD overdose. wish i d known that beforehand. but my life was bound to crash. anyway i wish each and every sufferer the best and the strength to go through it. to keep fighting. find things that help you. dont compare yourself to others. having basically reality taken away, well basically anyways, makes it very hard to live a happy semi normal life.
Thank you sincerely for making this seminar free of charge for us suffering to take part of. You bring up a lot of general and important facts surrounding dpdr. The solution you propose is accurate as well. I personally don’t see focusing on and relieving past trauma as a solution though. Trauma was what started my anxiety, depression and dpdr but it’s something I’ve overcome in time. I believe mainly in correcting the automatic response your body produces to external and internal stressors. Acceptance and allowance has been major for me in my journey so far and made it so much more easy to deal with. A lot of the problem in this is ironically yourself being too emotionally caught up in the symptoms. I’d call myself almost recovered since I’ve started to get longer breaks from these symptoms and I’m most convinced that I will recover completely eventually. My main problems still is lack of memory, brainfog and mental fatigue. Not so much detachment. I am sure though that those will also clear with time.
At least someone is doing this seminar for free. Thank you very much you really help alot of is esp the way you explain things in details and on top of that what to do to help.God bless you
Very good video, well explained, very informative and reassuring. Thanks and keep up the good work !
Ur profile picture 😅
I've always known that the reason of it is just being done with reality, I've always felt unsafe and that I need to escape it. So I'd say the main focus to heal is to create safe experiences for yourself more and more everyday.
I deeply appreciate your effort to make this video and that you've published it for free.. This is going to save my life. Thank you!
This was so helpful. Thank you so much.
half way in. amazing video and explanation. thank you.
also I have to agree with the unsafe relationships theory. at least at first glance. I noticed when I was expecting to get in a relationship recently, though it didn't work out, I felt safe with the girl and I felt the depersonalization melting away as I spent more time with her.
This is an amazing explanation of the DPDR I've been going through for 7 years now. Thank you for the video, I will use it to show mental health workers what I am experiencing
Glad it has helped. I have other videos that explain aspects of it in more brief detail if that helps as well.
The world needs more videos like this one! This is so well done 👍 Love it
Do yoga and watch more videos like this. Let's heal ourselves. Let's create a beautiful world together
I am suffering for 20 years.I am living in a toxic family.now i found the cause of my DPD.I can remember my childhood trauma .this gives me relief.thank you so much .
I experienced this for at least 6 months. I was depressed and had no way of expressing it. I used to call it the "am I really here feeling". It is horribly frightening and upsetting. So glad it finally went away and I cant recall how that happened. But I do fear the return...thanks for sharing
Best video brother thanks I will apply it I learned a lot subscribed...💕💖
Thank you for making easy to understand and you are 💯 correct 👍🏽 "liked"
You are so....underrated bro i will watch all of your videos 😊
Haha thanks!
My God! My whole life I have been struggling with this. Recently lost my mother... it's been 2 months. I handled it well initially but lately my symptoms have been going worse. Finally it makes sense. At least I recognise what's happening with me. God bless you for making this video!
I've had it for 14 years nonstop. At this point I do not care. I do not have any anxiety or depression and have managed to live with it and enjoy my life. This is something I will have for the rest of my life
Just diagnosed. This is exactly how I have been living for the past 33 years!
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That was gold man, i relate to so much of what you said...i "only" have dr but pretty bad, it gradually came on during childhood when my parents separated and i was changing homes every week while they despised each other. Perfect recipee for dissociating from the external world....its so hard to reduce the dr...but i guess it all boils down to safety. I absolutely feel a constant sense of threat plus i have a tendency to obsess over things, including the symptoms, like crazy...im working on it tho..
Thanks, i know exactly what you mean about the constant sense of threat. Hang in there and yes, work on it daily and results come. Good luck!
You said you self induced dp? How did you self induce it and how did you get the dp to go away
You are amazing! And I appreciate you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much.
I also get these waves of bad feelings like as if something awful is about to happen come out of no where, it’s the worst
Me too 😭 but as long as you keep reasoning and using logic, hopefully that helps. It’s mentally exhausting but kinda helps.
Glad that after 3 years I can see I’m almost out of it. It’s slowly going away. Starting to smile more and enjoy life more
Thank you so much! I'll be using this. You had it for a decade so I trust you fully. I read the DPmanual and it was basically "bro just distract yourself 24/7" which wouldnt work since ive been ok with dpdr for years and have lived normalish and have had two events worsening it. Ill do therapy for the childhood trauma, continue with thought and emotion awareness, mindfulness of surroundings, and start the ones you talked about. Ive made it improve a little bit before from mindfulness and forgetting but damn now that it is worse idk how long itll take (4.5 years btw), atleast a year probably? stop the stimulation too to make mindfulness easier and cut down aversion.
I agree that although distracting from the symptoms is part of recovery - its when and how we do it that matters. Focusing on reducing anxiety and getting your nervous system and mind to let go of the hypersensitive state is the main focus, then when the major symptoms are gone I find the forgetting about the symptoms is what is best to focus on. The forgetting about it is mainly to avoid creating thoughts about it that generates anxiety - at least for me it was.
DP manual might not be the perfect system, but it looks like thousands of people have cured themselves by using it. So, it must be good or at least have advice that does help people recover
@@hermilogarcia7510 Does it?
Because most cases of DP/DR last a few months to 2 years anyway, no matter what you do. So, of course does it seem like the DP Manual is helping people.
But in reality he is just cashing in on people's suffering. All those people that sell courses are scammers.
10 years.. you are a soldier
This is so helpful and the information is very well explained. I've had DP/DR for over 10 years and have made good progress in that time with meditation and noticing where my anxiety is triggered. Healing starts with acceptance and a greater awareness of your body. You can train yourself with meditation to really feel grounded within your body and this changes it from being terrible to being completely liveable. Breathing exercises are a shortcut to reducing anxiety, and another important factor is noticing muscle tension in your body. I can almost guarantee that all those suffering with DP/DR will have lots of tension in their shoulders / neck / jaw / head and pelvic floor. The more you notice the tension in your body and then relax the muscles, the less anxious you will feel, and you will break the cycle of anxiety. One more point is underlying conditions that you may not be aware of such as Autism, OCD and ADHD, which can exacerbate anxiety. Look at the symptoms for these to work out if it's possible you may have it or not.
you give us all hope thank you so much...
Greetings from Russia! Thank you for the video, I found it at the forum. Your advice is so helpful, I started working with psychologist recently and then found this content. I keep a diary. I think breathing and meditation is what I lack in the process of recovery, definitely should try.
Meditation has changed my life, it can be hard at first but stick with it, it will bring unexpected benefits
this is a good video, I will share it around !
Bro this is so accurate. Omg 😔😪
I’ve been dealing with this for the last year and a half primarily while driving on the freeway. I understand that I need to relax, accept it, acknowledge it and just be present to feel what I’m going through.
Amazing
Very well explained
my boyfriend has been having this symptom for around 6 years. he says that it happened out of nowhere. he has no trauma, no depression, and no anxiety. he doesn’t even know what anxiety feels like.
he explains his symptoms as following:
- it feels like you get into a fight or flight mode, but you are stuck with that mode and it doesn’t turn off
- feels like you are out of it, and can’t be in the moment fully
- has foggy vision
- some days are harder then the others, especially when you are stressed due to hard work, or lack of sleep
- it sometimes causes you to not fall asleep easily, and get sleep paralysis
doctors say that it could be anxiety disorder, but i’ve researched that you can get symptoms of anxiety even though you don’t have anxiety. doctors assumed that he has anxiety disorder, but he really doesn’t have that. they tried to put him in mental health hospital and we don’t even have money for it. good thing he wasn’t put in one.
we also researched that lack of vitamin B12 can also cause this. so we are trying to get the vitamin supplement and if that doesn’t work, he will get vitamin shots. hoping that it works.
you know you are desperate when you look towards God to help you. we even talked about going to church, because what if this is a work of devil. (sounds crazy but i swear we are desperate)
Ask him to check vitamin d levels, if they are low bring it up to 50 ng usually have to be brought up with quite high doses
The fight or flight indicates there is significant amounts of anxiety even though he says he doesn’t have any. The anxiety is usually numbed so you don’t think you have any but it’s all under the freeze/ DPDR state.
has he had a tbi?
a really helpful video thank you
10 yr sufferer as well. Hearing you mention all the symptoms makes me realize the kind of hell it has been.
Oh god I’m so sorry. Any improvement?
@@alexanderulv3886 yes, although I am not the same, it's gotten better. Thanks!
I’ve experienced depersonalisation and derealisation for 2 years now.. it causes anxious attacks during the night and in darkness and also some sort of depression. I’ve never really felt in touch, I have a few times but that’s mainly in sunlight. As a person who knows how it feels, I apologise you had to experience it for so long but I also appreciate everything you’ve been through to help us. I’m still going to try and get psychological help, but I’m going listen to your tips. And I just flowed with my emotions just now and I feel better. (I just wished this permanent headache would go away). Thanks youuuu so so so so much, hope you’re good and well and only on the path to success.
Search up neuropsychiatrist on google & you’ll get direct help with dpdr, most are in London but they’ll still provide medicine even if you’re overseas.
Lamotrigine & others will help. Thanks
Wait, did you feel better when sunlight did shine on you?
I never heard that from anyone else with DP/DR.
Mine only gets better (ca. twice a year) in the morning, mostly when I was awake the whole night, when the sun hits me. Then I feel closer to reality for a few seconds. (I have it 24/7 and it never changes)
Does that match your experience or is yours different?
@@JustsomeSteve Hi, I just saw this comment now and i do remember, for some reason in sunlight I felt more connected to reality, the brighter it was the more real things looked, and the weird visual effects were more stronger in darkness. I am not sure why though, something I will keep in mind if I come up with a possible answer.
@@MentalHealthPower Thanks for letting me know. Maybe that's a point for further research. Have to speak with an neurologist about this.
Hey I hope you are doing well
did you recover?
I have the same symptoms that you have
I’ve been having the dissociative adaptation for like 5 months now. I can’t express how much all of this is helping me, I’m making notes side by side, writing positive to myself and writing key points from the video and the emotions I feel.. I can’t thank you enough I just hope I get better
Check out your B12 deficiency
I have watch 100's of these video's on dp/dr and you are the only one that really gets to the point of why this is happening and how to really address getting over it. I've had dp/dr for 34 years 24/7. Starting seeing a therapist doing EMDR about 8 weeks ago. Addressing trauma's and am seeing some help for the first time. I relate to everything you said about how you felt. I'm 70 now and so want out of this. I have to learn to deal differently about the stress in my life and the people who are causing these stress's, since there is no way to just leave.
How’s the EMDR now?
@@Onaventea It is helping some, very slowly. Feel like my brain is fighting to stay in this shell. I'm having to face fear that seems to overwhelm me.
Hi Deborah. How are you doing now? Was your dp/dr severe, and did it change in severity over the years? I've had it for 10 years, and it seems to be getting worse over time....did you ever experience those periods? And what kind of stuff had you tried in the past to help out?
Proud of you for getting the help you need after all that time.
@@geeebs3502 the emdr has helped, I would say I'm about 50% out of dp/dr now. There are things that set me back. Now am able to notice stressor. I was never taught to understand what was causing all of this, so I didn't understand why I felt worse at times. Having so childhood trauma, that I didn't think was bad compared to what others have been through, but it was hard on me and really effected the way I dealt with things all my life. So doing the emdr has helped me to see these things in a different way and be able to deal with them, so they are not effecting me like they did before. All of this had been hard to do, cause my brain after being stuck in dp/dr for 35 years didn't know other ways to deal with these feelings. So after every session I knew I could see things better, but my feeling would tell me to run and hide from it all and not go back for more help. I feel much stronger. And deal with the people around me better then before. But the dp/dr is still not all the way better, so that makes me sad, but I have learned not to let that rule my life. I just do the things I want and hope in time it will all be gone. It's only my faith in Jesus that keeps me going. I hope you can get the help you need to get out of this. Finding a therapist who does emdr is not easy.
Thanks for replying. 50% is awesome, you should be so proud. After so long, I can imagine how scary and different it is. That's something that I think holds me back - my dp/dr is so deep that I can't really remember what "normal" life is like, and it feels like it would be scary. Especially going from having 0 emotions, where I'm at now, to having a lot of them. But it sounds like it gets harder before it gets better.
I totally relate to you about not knowing what is normal based on your childhood and stuff. I've become so accustomed to feeling awful and stressed that I hadnt even thought that there was something better or that it was right.
I’m glad you recovered! I got it 2 months ago and everyday i cry about it because i’m scared that i’ll go crazy or forget everything... i just wanna feel normal again
I have to say, the brain's ability to store and retain memories is astounding. I've recently begun to re experience old memories that I thought were totally lost since becoming depersonalized, and it's like they were never gone, they are so fresh and vivid with the accompanying feelings that I had when they first happened. I wouldn't be worried about forgetting everything!
@@baylee8659 i dont feel like this that much anymore i just had a fear of forgetting my loved ones and my life.. I struggle with looking at myself in the mirror without asking myself “is that me?”
@@Iiivyyh If you have resolved the underlying trauma it is a just a waiting game. It will heal. Don't fight it, you will be surprised how strong you were once you regain yourself.
@@nitesh7397 :)
@@Iiivyyh Hi how are you doing now?
This is awesome, also reaffirms everything I already knew. I think an important aspect of recovering is not only following every single guideline you’ve laid out, but following them constantly enough to override the deeply engrained habits that stem from the trauma. Sticking with it for the long run rather than only doing some, or only trying these for a few weeks or months. Once you create a strong habit of creating that safe mental and external environment, THAT’S when you start to see results because your brain has proof that it can let go because the threat is either gone or you know you can now handle it when it presents itself. ❤️
Yes you summed it up very well. Its the consistency and having the faith that eventually it will work out.
Precisely! Anything is possible. We didn't develop depersonalization over night, so we won't be able to just do this one time and go on without any troubles.
@@harleirebelqwinvery well said to both you and op
Im jealous of people who have had it a few months or yrs only and can remeber a life before it.... ive had this as long as i can remeber in my 45 yrs of life....... cant ever remeber a single time i felt happy, love, joy, elation, only anger.
My parents were not divorced but they fought constantly. They were basically enemies who lived together. I think divorced or not, the absence of a secure positive parental marriage is damaging for children. My detachment symptoms were never as serious as yours so this gives me hope I can overcome. As I child I had two severe illnesses where I nearly died. In both cases I had an out of body experience where I could see my body from the outside. In the second case, I never felt like I went back into my body. Even though I could see like I was looking out normally I feel like I'm following my body around. I think maybe my parents constantly yelling prevented me from recovering from the second episode because I could never relax. I'm 58 years old now and haven't lived with my parents for decades so I don't know why I'm still doing this.
Such an informative video. Thank you so much.
I experienced a week of clarity when I stopped my DP/DR here earlier this month. After that week, my emotions and everything I was coping with before needed to be dealt with and validated. it really is hard to deal with these things but I am so glad someone brought this to light!
I experience everyone of these, I went from top of my class to one of the bottom people. My teachers always called me to office, called my parents to school etc. I didn't know what it was, I got depression and anxiety and panic attacks . With all the stress over the yrs (13yrs) now, my brain feels weird, my chest is super tight I can take deep breaths. It's awful
Now I understand what's going on with me (it's been 2 years since I discovered the name of what happened to me, or still happening on and off ).
It started when I was 13 or 14 and lasted for mor than 10 years, I couldn't focus or on school or concentrate on anything in my life, I was always scared that I was going mad, couldn't tell no one, I always lived with panics and not sleeping all night, never had enough of sleeping, I was afraid that I could hurt people!
Now, I have a lot of stress in my life, so the feeling is coming and going.
It's tiring!
Reading Qur'an and praying helps me to recover....
Now, it's been few days that I am living in it again.
How are you now
Very good video!
I’ve had DR 24/7 for 18 years (over half my life now) all because I decided to use psychedelics literally 1 time at a party. I’m so tired. It’s the dumbest thing because you know it’s your body protecting you and you’re just like “Okay, I’m safe. You can stop now” while continuing living life the best you can but it won’t go away.
do you have anxiety, depression or ptsd?
you could have anxiety/ptsd stored in the body that was triggered by the psychedelic
read “the body keeps the score” by bessel van der kolk and anxiety rx by dr russell kennedy they will help you a lot!!!
There is something in yourself and your way of thinking that keeps it alive probably. Try to find a good therapist to work on it
I’m currently going through depersonalization, anxiety, and ocd from using edibles about a week ago. A few days ago I bought the depersonalization manual by Shaun O’Connor which has really helped me understand and cope a lot better. It’s not something you have to live with for the rest of your life. It is very fixable and I have found hope in only a week. Look into it. It’s worth every penny for someone suffering with this.
Hey, fellow 10 plus year sufferer here, this is the best video I've seen on this subject, thank you so much, you truely understand and I'm so happy and proud of you for recovering, it gives me so much faith and hope!
hey how's your recovery journey going?
@@viliuskaraliunas5075 Hey, thanks for asking! It's pretty stagnated, if I'm being honest. I'm trying to improve my life in other ways instead of focusing on having DP/DR.
Hope you’re feeling okay. It’s been 7 years for me, and I’m at the bottom
A very lucid and intelligent presentation. Thank you. I've suffered with this at a severe level for 24 years, since a traumatic event. I've lost myself almost entirely. The pain is indescribable. I'm chronically suicidal with it. I feel like I'm posthumous. Terrifying intrusive thoughts. My ex-wife, my child, seem
like strangers. I have no feelings for them, and it's agony. Seeing some improvements over the last year. Hell incarnate. Thank you and best wishes.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I am glad you have seen improvements and I hope the improvements will continue for you.
@@MentalHealthPower I've watched this several times now. You've really done a superb job Rumzi. I have no doubt, based on my own experience and research, that everything you say is correct. A stuck fight-flight response; fear and misunderstanding of the symptoms maintaining it; the role of stress. A constant sense of threat as you mentioned. Very encouraging and helpful. Thank you again.
You have seen improvements the last year like it’s not as strong?
@@tannerbrandon5211 definitely. But a lot of work has been involved to make any progress. But it's absolutely possible.
Gray Shus so it’s not as bad? Seems recovery is possible no matter how long someone has had it
do you have any tips on visual symptoms sometimes i see floaters or a haze of moving object or person also if i focus on words on a paper or wall or something i see almost double like a shadow of word is also there but not as clear. i went to eye doctor several times and they said my vision is perfectly fine i don't understand visual symptoms anything helps thanks
Yea I had the same and have small elements of that left. It seems to be related to our mind being hypersensitive due to being in fight or flight mode for so long, so the visual effects are possibly to do with the overstimulation in the visual part of our brain. I'm not 100% sure on this but there was a comment on another video where someone talked about this. As anxiety reduces, the need for hypersensitivity goes away and so it seems that that is when our mind then starts being able to filter out the floaters and vision goes back to normal. I noticed in myself my mind still sometimes goes into that hypersensitivity and floaters are more visible, but goes away. For those moments I don't resist it or pay attention to the floaters or visual effects because I know it goes away eventually. So its all about focusing on reducing anxiety and figuring out what the anxiety triggers are.
I'm in your position man when I was 19 I got deperseonalized from a really bad mushroom experience I didn't know what what wrong with me years ago im 33 now and still suffer from dp a lil bit I mean I feel better but I'll never feel like my old self. It used to be so bad for me I borderline thought that my mushroom experience turned me schizophrenic because there were multiple times I would see people that would vanish and hear auditory hallucinations. I was so mind fried that no one around me understood what was going on with me and I lost almost everything. lost all my friends and turned into an alcoholic because alcohol was the only thing to relax me other than prescription medication which doctors never gave me. I was put on seroquel but all that did was make me a little tired but my mind was still going 100mph. I lost over 10 years of my life stuck in a really bad mental state I even tried killing myself a couple times.
Another great video! Thanks. I’ve realized I have some pretty strong childhood trauma, in addition to genetic depression. These suggestions for handling stress make a lot of sense.
How are you doing now? Can you give us an update? :)
Thank you. I am doing well thanks!
as time goes on i notice my dp slowly fade away but I notice my anxiety just keeps going up higher and higher sometimes making the dp even worse am I making progress or can you relate to this?
For me, there was always a relation to the level of anxiety i experienced and the DP/DR symptoms, so if anxiety levels lowered, dp/dr symptoms lowered. Consider looking into what could be triggering the anxiety, it could be something subtle like thoughts or something in your external world, or something very subconscious. I have experimented with using anxiety relief affirmations during sleep and got some good results, something else to look into.
I’ve felt dull and like everything feels like a dream since I was In the 4th grade ,around that time me and my mother was being abused . I just hope I can get over it. I done graduated high school and still feel fuzzy
I’m emotionally numb/anhedonia. I can still feel stressed out or cry. My derealization and brain fog left somewhat but I’m still stuck. Good informative video. Glad you recovered
I remember what its like to experience that yes, I hope you recover. Its like swinging emotionally from one extreme to the other right? I think its to do with our body being so overwhelmed with stress that eventually it "runs out" of the energy or possibly the chemicals like cortisol and sort of shuts down emotion because of it. That is just my theory but it fits my previous experience. Almost like a machine overheating so needing to shut down.
I wish I felt extreme emotions at one point haha. There’s days where I feel a bit better and there’s days where I don’t feel anything at all. How long did you have the flatness for?
I had it for probably about a year non stop before I started making progress on managing thoughts and with therapy understanding and accepting past traumas and the meanings I had assigned to it. Maybe start a diary to track the symptoms to see what made you feel better on those days?
Maybe therapy is a good idea. My doctor recommends psychiatry but I don’t wanna take meds. Yea I’ll try to write stuff down, good tip
Mine started when watching SF or Horror movies at ages like 7 8 9 years old , felt extreme anxiety , plus I got bullied at school and had social anxiety. I'm empathize very quick since forever , get lost inside my head , get sad pretty quick and get hyped up for simple things but NOT like a maniac type of hype
thanks for the video
Hi, hope you are doing well. I have been dissociating for the past couple of months. I realise that I disassociate when I am overwhelmed in public for example if I meet someone new this has been happening a lot lately but I think that this is because I isolated myself for the past year due to my bad depression.
I used to be able to talk freely with people and not feel nervous etc or disassociate at all. Do I have to avoid social situations entirely so my dissociation goes or can I gradually start going out more so I can feel like how I used to feel before all this?
I want to feel like myself again - if I slowly and gradually start going out more can I show myself and the disassociation that there's no perceived threat so it will eventually lessen?
Hopefully, this makes sense sorry English is not my first language.
Hi, as always I say you should discuss anything I talk about or comment on with a therapist first before trying anything. Based on my own experiences, in that kind of situation, in the past I would done things gradually. E.g meeting with people I am most comfortable with first in a place I am most comfortable for a short period of time, and allowing the emotions and feelings to come up and being with them for a time. Then I would try it again another time but for longer, then with other people etc. It sounds like social situations are triggering the fight/flight/freeze response, so the idea would be to retrain your mind and body to feel safer again in those situations.
Thank you for this. I have been finding it hard to accept the feelings long enough for them to subside. I have a better week or two, but then my positive attitude wanes. How do you keep the faith for long enough to see marked results?
That is a great question. It is a process that takes time and it's totally normal for the positive periods to shift back into your previous experience. It's like an ebb and flow where overtime progress is made in the long run. I remember making progress then falling back but then making progress a bit further each time and learning something new each time, even if small, so it's not a linear progression, more like moving up and down emotionally in the short term, but moving gradually up in the long run. So accepting and feeling all emotions and experiences is key to this progression, even the feelings of falling back temporarily. It's ok for the positive attitude to go, it will return and gradually that slowly becomes more of the norm. To keep the faith every time I made progress I made sure to note it down (writing it down in a diary can help), so that it's slowly building the subconscious belief that recovery is real and progress is being made. Also keeping track of what triggers an increase in symptoms helps in case there is something specific triggering the return to the previous experience. Finding and noting the wins, even if small, helps alot with keeping the faith.
In addition to this it also massively helps to have supporting people around us that will help us to notice improvements and successes we may not notice
@@MentalHealthPower Thank you. This is what I've experienced lately, I kinda come back a little bit and it's happening more and more, but I always fall back into DP/DR again. It makes you feel like you failed and that progress was just an illusion. But this comment reminded me that it's infact progress. Been suffering from DP/DR since 12 years.
Thank you.
Thanks Rumzi.
Did you have anhedonia or emotional numbness? These are the worst symptoms for me. It started with just derealization but now have DP and DR along with a ton of other mental health symptoms. It’s been 3 years like this for me.
I have both of these for 6years. I removed alcohol 7yrs ago. Then started two weeks ago because I couldn’t cope anymore. Ha. Silly me! It’s better to have these illness that damage myself further. Detached people need love. Clean food. Sleep. Lots and lots of love and touch.
What do you think of caffeine? Bad for DPDR? amazing vids by the way
I never drink coffee so am not sure. But I suspect that it might affect anxiety or sleep for some people, worth looking into.
I basically have a reverse thanos ring of mental heath issues - just added DPDR to the list. But it’s okay. We will get through this everybody!!!
Im 34 years old and I was in a car accident last year. 8 months later thats when I developed a panic attack and depersonalization, 3-D x rays indicate that I have developed a reverse curved neck from weak ligaments caused by the whiplash. I believe this may be also the reason why some may develop DP or DR.
Hi, thanks for this, it is very well presented and explained. I have derealisation only which has been there 24/7 for nearly 2 years. My symptoms are all visual, the environment looks really weird, I can’t perceive depth and everything looks flat like I am looking at a flat screen tv or a painting. You talked about different situations affecting your dpdr and you found your symptoms changed if your anxiety decreased. However as much as I have tried to relax and not be stressed, the visual symptoms have not changed at all or varied in the last 2 years, they are constant and do not change from day to day. Does this mean I am unlikely to recover if nothing has improved or changed in all that time? I am losing hope and am struggling to live like this every day. Thanks for the advice, the video was very informative and I am so happy you recovered from this, I hope that will happen to me one day where I can live a normal life again.
bro can I recommend meditation
it started to help me
and the symptoms dissappear for a little while at a time
but also I started looking after myself more(physically and emotionally) and that's what most people don't do
mind blowing
thanks for this, you recommend any books?
Search up neuropsychiatrist on google & you’ll get direct help with dpdr, most are in London but they’ll still provide medicine even if you’re overseas.
Lamotrigine & others will help. Thanks
I have been in a chronic state of DP/DR for 8 years and 10 months, not one moment of relief. I sometimes think about how much I can’t remember what it felt like before it hit that day. After 10 years, were your first breakthrough moments super obvious?? I believe mine is from a vestibular issue and I am working on healing now...I can’t wait for relief! :) Thank you for this video!
I wish you a speedy recovery! The breakthrough moments happened overtime since the start of the experience. So at first it seemed like it was after 1 year, then about every 6 months, and I seem to remember after that it just varied. This year my recovery was exponential so it really depended on what I had learned, how much self-awareness I gained, what was happening in my life at the time, and how consistently I applied what I had learned. Interesting that many of the symptoms I just read about for vestibular issues are also the same or similar to what people experiencing anxiety can have - I had past experiences with feeling lightheaded, brain fog etc and it was anxiety related. Both DP/DR and those vestibular like symptoms I experienced stem from anxiety - so I wonder if that is also part of what is creating those symptoms for you?
@@MentalHealthPower Yes, they can all possibly be intertwined! I think that healing our adrenals and nourishing our bodies from the inside out can work wonders when it comes to healing vestibular issues, anxiety, or any other health issues! Thank you for your reply!
Hi how do you know its from that?
@@lauraandy113 Hey :) I was diagnosed with BPPV when I was a kid and have also been suffering from DPDR for about 8 years. This is a fascinating connection. How are you doing now and did you pursue any treatments for your vestibular issues? Thanks
Thank you!!!
Bro I feel like I have hope now ive been having this for about 3 years now I feel so emotionally numb and detached it’s crazy
You can recover bro, I believe you will just like he did. I'm 85 percent recovered
became fearless , artist and researcher in dpdr .due to a timeline shift ..but dpdr is most awful thing in long run......
I can overcome dpdr cause of existential thoughts and questions like I can’t just relax not knowing answers and being uncertain about everything in the world and it make me feel like I’m going crazy and I just can’t help it
One more very important thing is like i married the lady i liked and i should have been very happy that seems really normal to me like feels like dreamy no reality all time so happiness was not as i should have been ! Does it make sense :??? Is it due to DP DR ???
You are an Angel
Hi can I ask this on your journey to recovery how you handle the thoughts or fears that pop up in your mind or if you imagine that maybe it might or will happen again to you? Because this will cause trigger to the nervous system
Mindfulness practices like meditation, so practicing letting the thoughts be and not placing too much importance on them - through practice, that's how I did it at least. Also continually showing myself evidence that the fears didn't happen when I thought they would. Took some time but it helped with this issue
@@MentalHealthPower Thank you much Sir I watched your videos it help a lot
I have been struggling with derealization for 14 years. My German therapists never explained it to me, nor did they tell me I have C-PTSD. Although I still feel detached, with all your help and sharing, I have become hopeful. Thank you, everyone! And thanks to chat gpt, which explained me my state of mind in 1 min....
I appreciate your comment. What prompt did you give chatGPT that helped you?
Hi Rumzi, thank you very much for getting back to me on that issue. As I mentioned in the last comment, my therapists never gave me a clear description about my condition. I did. psychoanalysis 4 years and behaviour therapy 3 years. So I just described my experience and my todays condition to chat gpt, when I lost the sense of reality and sensations of being alive 14 years ago. I described the whole situation as it happened and how do I feel now. So it gave me descriptions of what I might have: dissociative disorder and derealisation. It helps really much just only to understand what is going on, so I can search for support like you offer. Very happy you got over it. And thank you for your contribution, it is so important for us!
Did you try any medication? What would you suggest to people with DPDR? My psychiatrist prescribed me antipsychotic, Quietapin. I believe meditation will help too, but maybe it takes another 10 years to exercise and have a result. Thank you a lot!
Thank you!
The reason for this is - high screen time , we feel we are still in the gadget laptop or phone , reducing screentime can reduce it