After 3 months I could say that I was basically recovered. Now, a month later, I can definitely say I am well!! And this is the testimony that, by far, helped me the most during those terrible days. I can't imagine how I would have fared without having channels and information like this. Thank you Jemimah and thank you Robin. You are providing help that the mainstream mental health system is proving itself incapable to provide.
For the people who have recovered, after recovery have you addressed the DPDR in the sense in which to do therapy or by any means to process what happened and not be left with traumas related to this? so that in the future you don't look back with fear at what happened. For example EMDR or something else.
I’ve never felt so reassured! Literally everything you covered answered my questions. For the past year I’ve felt partially recovered but still dissociated. This video gives me so much confidence in my own recovery. Thank you both so much!
gonna comment a few of my favourite points. hi jemimah, i was told to keep an eye out for this video and turned on all notifications. sorry for the essay, just felt so much resonance. so many things that you said had me like "OH MY GOD, ME TOO!" 8.13 - Robin, you described my way of thinking constantly. Going back to my scale that I talk to you with, and when the breaks started again yesterday, it was SO hard to fight those thoughts! they're so automatic and in my subconscious. i should have just been grateful, not fearing the "what if"s! 22.15 - Jemimah, that is my SCARIEST of the visual symptoms!!!! Ugh so refreshing when I hear someone talk about it. I might be at work, and I work in a castle by the way, and all of a sudden there's a piece of armor or a big chest i've never noticed. Or, wait I am working in THIS place? And the feelings of unsafety I feel even just walking around my neighbourhood, when I enter this 'trance'-like state. So scary. 24.54 - the singer dodie is an ambassador (? maybe?? or founder??) of the UK-based charity Unreal. She has had DPDR chronically for years. It is the only charity I know of that deals with this. It'd be so refreshing if other countries (I can say Ireland doesn't have any such charities, yet/atm) had more resources. For so long, I have always seen reaching a sense of peace was the final destination. That you do all of these things and then there's a click and then, the feeling of, "ahhhhhhh" (sigh of relief). It's taken me way too long to see, that probably out of shame. A conducting lecturer once told me, "eat the meal one bite at a time, a bit every day" - and it's so hypocritical of me to say it my students and then NOT PRACTISE THE VERY PHRASE. I have been struggling with the victim mentality all my life. In the end, "It's not my fault but it is my responsibility" and I have never wanted to accept responsibility. 47.39 - such an eloquent and accurate description of DPDR. Your story is so inspiring Jemimah, you should be so so proud of yourself, and I loved seeing your happiness. Recovery stories give me so much hope (and a kick up the butt) because I see such raw strength and determination - it's beautiful. Thank you for everything you do, Robin, this was probably my favourite video/interview of yours. But if there is one thing in common with all your recovered clients, they all have this bright, hopeful light (?) in their eyes and I am sobbing writing this (hopeful tears?) because I know it is within my hands - and thanks to your help - to reach that state, too. 💖🦋
Thank you Robin but also thank you Jemimah! That really gave me a good feeling about the power to heal. I also have it chronically and I always heard about people having episodes it really gave me hope. Started your course now and I can already feel that something is changing 🦋 Michelle
14:25 is so relatable for me, i first had dpdr a month and a half ago and i gotten better little by little until i watched a nature document with my sisters and it sent me into a panic attack and now i had my existential thoughts and dpdr back for 4 days ever since i watched that. it sucks/; also at 17:20 i still right now feel like a body with no feeling and no personality and sometimes i feel the opposite, like i’m a spirit without a body, really comforting knowing that it’s a normal symptom 🥺 that feeling is so scary and it makes me cry all day 22:23i remember going to the doctor for my cold and i had dpdr and i started to cry about how i felt like an alien and out of this world and like i’m in a dream and he looked so concerned LOLLL it literally feels like ur a newborn again and seeing everything for the first time
Finally I see a video where my most frightening symptoms are described and it feels good to hear. The feeling of not being in control of your movements or actions like typing on the computer or even speaking and the fear of not being able to do these things its what scares me the most because we think we are losing our capabilities and we think we are not going to be able to work, to provide to our family, etc... How can we overcome this fear and these thoughs when you have to do them for a living?
I’m going through it it’s been a month or more don’t know but I think it’s getting better after I accept it and observe it without fear knowing it’s not dangerous it’s just your brain saving you from anxiety or danger
Hello, thank you both so much for this💛💛Im going through nightmare chronic Dpdr, very similar to Jemimah. I was wondering how did you start feeling safe? I cant, because also my family and my home seem scary and unfamiliar. Im scared even of myself… I know Dpdr isnt dangerous, i know everything but i dont feel anything and I stopped believing.😢😢I feel like Im stuck in some different world.
I know exactly how you feel! It truly is like a nightmare and I’m sorry you’re going through this at the moment. For me I had to move to live somewhere different because it was too triggering at home and with my family etc, this allowed me to come back to visit in stages until I no longer feared it (this took a while though and a lot of work.) Keep reassuring yourself of the truth that you are safe, as I mentioned in the video Yin Yoga is amazing, it’s the restorative side of yoga which is about creating safety and connection to the body. Safe space visualisation is great, try spend time in nature and places you feel calm. Limit screen time, eat and sleep well etc all the good things! It’s all about nurturing that scared part of yourself. You won’t be stuck in this forever, healing will find it’s way ❤️
@@jemimahxoxo Thank You girls for this video, I finally found similar symptoms to mine❤ I have lots of intrusive thoughts and the hardest part is that I feel they are the only ones I have. It’s hard to talk with people because everything seems to be unreal? I don’t know how to cope with that… most of my meetings with friends I’m silence and when they ask me opinion I don’t have it :/ how to overcome it? I’ll be gratefull for any answer! 🙂
I think just accepting the situation as it is now, don't overthink or stress about it just care for that scared part of yourself and focus on healing! Intrusive thoughts are also coming from fear, everything else will fall into place as you heal xxx@@marysiaolech2981
This was a great video. Jemimah, I was wondering how your depression is now? You mentioned that was the start of your journey. I feel like I got dpdr after a bout with depression and I’m wondering if it’ll be there when I recover from the dpdr
I think it’s hard to say as it depends on a lot of factors and everyone is different, I am personally not depressed anymore which I feel extremely lucky. I think it depends on your healing journey! ❤️
This convo had great insights. Thanks :). I've been recovering from anxiety for a while. For me, I found that eliminating a lot of strong caffeine beverages (like coffee) and practicing mindfulness meditation have been a huge help. I've been using the mindfulness exercises book "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels. Even just 10 minutes a day in silence is a big help :)
I had a similar story to her. I had a very painful twenty four hour a day DPDR, and I recovered fully. Has anyone else tried cold water swimming, or do you know of a study on this? I am not discounting the mental treatment, but how much can be changed with gene expression from extreme environmental changes? I found that a very extreme version of the "mammalian diving reflex," as used by cold water swimmers like myself, is shockingly powerful at fixing this condition and works quickly. I think mental health professionals and patients might not take this seriously because they (justifiably) have an aversion to dangerous treatments that involve this level of suffering. I only know my own experience and it worked for me.
if anyone wants to know what depersonaliztion feels like go buy yourself some over the counter cough medicine and drink an entire bottle and take a spoonful of nutmeg. once it kicks in you'll feel disoriented and detached you might feel other effects but being deoersonalized is like that but stuck like that 24hours a day for years or months it just depends because some people only go through it for a few months and some people experience it for years. I went through it for over a decade
Hey everyone I am depressed and life feels dark I have weird thoughts like time just passes and we are stuck in our body’s and stuck on earth and feels like everyday is just another day and it feels scary is this dp/dr or just depression?
Jemimah- I’m curious if you still deal with the existential questions and thoughts? My DPDR comes and goes now but the existential thoughts and how absurd it all is seems to persist and it really bothers me. Feels like Iv “woken up/matrix” type feeling and I just want to go back to not caring about it
Hi! Yes it does still scare me a bit and feel weird, but I choose not to think about it. I know that If I decide to think about it too much it will make things worse, so I focus on what’s right here in front of me in the present moment :) The book ‘the power of now’ by Eckhart Tolle is great for this. I can’t change reality so it’s just learning to accept the things I find weird or don’t understand.. Then I go to make myself a cup of tea and things feel ok again 😂
Also as you learn to care for your anxiety over time things won’t feel so big and scary so it’s just trusting in the process and keep pursuing peace in every part of your life ❤️
Thankyou so much I relate to your story a lot. Iv been feeling very suicidal myself for months now because of feeling like I see things differently and not feeling connected etc. It can feel so isolating because like you said nobody really gets it unless you’ve been through it. My DPDR was triggered by a panic attack on a video on the simulation theory and then it spiraled from there, so right off the bat the existential thoughts were there and my anxiety has been surrounded around them. It feels weird that nobody else is freaking out over the absurdity everyday and just living life lol. I just really want to reach a place of internal peace again and move forward with life not caring about these questions. I’ll be living everyday life and then get these intrusive thoughts like “how is this happening” etc.
@@CourtneySDawnhi Courtney! I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone! I’ve been struggling with the same thing you have for a couple months now and I totally understand what you’re feeling. I want you to know you are loved and not alone and I am rooting for you
After 3 months I could say that I was basically recovered. Now, a month later, I can definitely say I am well!! And this is the testimony that, by far, helped me the most during those terrible days. I can't imagine how I would have fared without having channels and information like this. Thank you Jemimah and thank you Robin. You are providing help that the mainstream mental health system is proving itself incapable to provide.
This made me tear up... Thank you for coming back and sharing! ❤️
For the people who have recovered, after recovery have you addressed the DPDR in the sense in which to do therapy or by any means to process what happened and not be left with traumas related to this? so that in the future you don't look back with fear at what happened. For example EMDR or something else.
Omg this is my story. This testimonial helps so much!! Thank you so much both❤
Hello from south Africa in have dpdr nice to know what helped with recovery
I’ve never felt so reassured! Literally everything you covered answered my questions. For the past year I’ve felt partially recovered but still dissociated. This video gives me so much confidence in my own recovery. Thank you both so much!
Thank you guys so much for sharing! I feel confident that myself and all who are watching will one day recover from anxiety, depression, and DPDR! ❤️
gonna comment a few of my favourite points. hi jemimah, i was told to keep an eye out for this video and turned on all notifications. sorry for the essay, just felt so much resonance. so many things that you said had me like "OH MY GOD, ME TOO!"
8.13 - Robin, you described my way of thinking constantly. Going back to my scale that I talk to you with, and when the breaks started again yesterday, it was SO hard to fight those thoughts! they're so automatic and in my subconscious. i should have just been grateful, not fearing the "what if"s!
22.15 - Jemimah, that is my SCARIEST of the visual symptoms!!!! Ugh so refreshing when I hear someone talk about it. I might be at work, and I work in a castle by the way, and all of a sudden there's a piece of armor or a big chest i've never noticed. Or, wait I am working in THIS place? And the feelings of unsafety I feel even just walking around my neighbourhood, when I enter this 'trance'-like state. So scary.
24.54 - the singer dodie is an ambassador (? maybe?? or founder??) of the UK-based charity Unreal. She has had DPDR chronically for years. It is the only charity I know of that deals with this. It'd be so refreshing if other countries (I can say Ireland doesn't have any such charities, yet/atm) had more resources.
For so long, I have always seen reaching a sense of peace was the final destination. That you do all of these things and then there's a click and then, the feeling of, "ahhhhhhh" (sigh of relief). It's taken me way too long to see, that probably out of shame. A conducting lecturer once told me, "eat the meal one bite at a time, a bit every day" - and it's so hypocritical of me to say it my students and then NOT PRACTISE THE VERY PHRASE.
I have been struggling with the victim mentality all my life. In the end, "It's not my fault but it is my responsibility" and I have never wanted to accept responsibility.
47.39 - such an eloquent and accurate description of DPDR.
Your story is so inspiring Jemimah, you should be so so proud of yourself, and I loved seeing your happiness. Recovery stories give me so much hope (and a kick up the butt) because I see such raw strength and determination - it's beautiful.
Thank you for everything you do, Robin, this was probably my favourite video/interview of yours. But if there is one thing in common with all your recovered clients, they all have this bright, hopeful light (?) in their eyes and I am sobbing writing this (hopeful tears?) because I know it is within my hands - and thanks to your help - to reach that state, too. 💖🦋
i forgot some timestamps, this sorta turned into word vomit 🫠
I come back to this video all the time to help in my recovery. Thank you both ❤
So glad it's helped you
Thank you Robin but also thank you Jemimah!
That really gave me a good feeling about the power to heal. I also have it chronically and I always heard about people having episodes it really gave me hope. Started your course now and I can already feel that something is changing 🦋
Michelle
God, this video made me feel so good! I share every symptom that she spoke of. I’m very interested to work with you.
I also obsess over society and what it is, how it functions, how people live in society…
14:25 is so relatable for me, i first had dpdr a month and a half ago and i gotten better little by little until i watched a nature document with my sisters and it sent me into a panic attack and now i had my existential thoughts and dpdr back for 4 days ever since i watched that. it sucks/;
also at 17:20 i still right now feel like a body with no feeling and no personality and sometimes i feel the opposite, like i’m a spirit without a body, really comforting knowing that it’s a normal symptom 🥺 that
feeling is so scary and it makes me cry all day
22:23i remember going to the doctor for my cold and i had dpdr and i started to cry about how i felt like an alien and out of this world and like i’m in a dream and he looked so concerned LOLLL
it literally feels like ur a newborn again and seeing everything for the first time
How it's going?
I can relate to a lot of this and love hearing these stories as provides hope.
Finally I see a video where my most frightening symptoms are described and it feels good to hear. The feeling of not being in control of your movements or actions like typing on the computer or even speaking and the fear of not being able to do these things its what scares me the most because we think we are losing our capabilities and we think we are not going to be able to work, to provide to our family, etc... How can we overcome this fear and these thoughs when you have to do them for a living?
I’m going through it it’s been a month or more don’t know but I think it’s getting better after I accept it and observe it without fear knowing it’s not dangerous it’s just your brain saving you from anxiety or danger
Thank you for this insightful video! Do you have any experience with existential OCD?
This is what I am experiencing as well, DPDR comes along with it.
Hello, thank you both so much for this💛💛Im going through nightmare chronic Dpdr, very similar to Jemimah. I was wondering how did you start feeling safe? I cant, because also my family and my home seem scary and unfamiliar. Im scared even of myself… I know Dpdr isnt dangerous, i know everything but i dont feel anything and I stopped believing.😢😢I feel like Im stuck in some different world.
I know exactly how you feel! It truly is like a nightmare and I’m sorry you’re going through this at the moment. For me I had to move to live somewhere different because it was too triggering at home and with my family etc, this allowed me to come back to visit in stages until I no longer feared it (this took a while though and a lot of work.) Keep reassuring yourself of the truth that you are safe, as I mentioned in the video Yin Yoga is amazing, it’s the restorative side of yoga which is about creating safety and connection to the body. Safe space visualisation is great, try spend time in nature and places you feel calm. Limit screen time, eat and sleep well etc all the good things! It’s all about nurturing that scared part of yourself. You won’t be stuck in this forever, healing will find it’s way ❤️
Than you so much Jemimah
@@jemimahxoxo Thank You girls for this video, I finally found similar symptoms to mine❤ I have lots of intrusive thoughts and the hardest part is that I feel they are the only ones I have. It’s hard to talk with people because everything seems to be unreal? I don’t know how to cope with that… most of my meetings with friends I’m silence and when they ask me opinion I don’t have it :/ how to overcome it?
I’ll be gratefull for any answer! 🙂
I think just accepting the situation as it is now, don't overthink or stress about it just care for that scared part of yourself and focus on healing! Intrusive thoughts are also coming from fear, everything else will fall into place as you heal xxx@@marysiaolech2981
This was a great video. Jemimah, I was wondering how your depression is now? You mentioned that was the start of your journey. I feel like I got dpdr after a bout with depression and I’m wondering if it’ll be there when I recover from the dpdr
I think it’s hard to say as it depends on a lot of factors and everyone is different, I am personally not depressed anymore which I feel extremely lucky. I think it depends on your healing journey! ❤️
This convo had great insights. Thanks :). I've been recovering from anxiety for a while. For me, I found that eliminating a lot of strong caffeine beverages (like coffee) and practicing mindfulness meditation have been a huge help. I've been using the mindfulness exercises book "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" by Harper Daniels. Even just 10 minutes a day in silence is a big help :)
Can you share the safe space strategy?
Thank you both for sharing this. God bless you for going through this. Please know that your detailed description is so helpful.
Thank you so much
I had a similar story to her. I had a very painful twenty four hour a day DPDR, and I recovered fully. Has anyone else tried cold water swimming, or do you know of a study on this? I am not discounting the mental treatment, but how much can be changed with gene expression from extreme environmental changes? I found that a very extreme version of the "mammalian diving reflex," as used by cold water swimmers like myself, is shockingly powerful at fixing this condition and works quickly. I think mental health professionals and patients might not take this seriously because they (justifiably) have an aversion to dangerous treatments that involve this level of suffering. I only know my own experience and it worked for me.
What do you mean? What have you done to get rid of dpdr?
if anyone wants to know what depersonaliztion feels like go buy yourself some over the counter cough medicine and drink an entire bottle and take a spoonful of nutmeg. once it kicks in you'll feel disoriented and detached you might feel other effects but being deoersonalized is like that but stuck like that 24hours a day for years or months it just depends because some people only go through it for a few months and some people experience it for years. I went through it for over a decade
@jemimahxoxo Thanks so much for your story. Did you experience fatigue as well? I do mean the feeling of a heavy head and dizziness
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Completely random, but I just wanted to say you have a exceptionally (literally) beautiful face.
Hey everyone I am depressed and life feels dark I have weird thoughts like time just passes and we are stuck in our body’s and stuck on earth and feels like everyday is just another day and it feels scary is this dp/dr or just depression?
Jemimah- I’m curious if you still deal with the existential questions and thoughts? My DPDR comes and goes now but the existential thoughts and how absurd it all is seems to persist and it really bothers me. Feels like Iv “woken up/matrix” type feeling and I just want to go back to not caring about it
Hi!
Yes it does still scare me a bit and feel weird, but I choose not to think about it. I know that If I decide to think about it too much it will make things worse, so I focus on what’s right here in front of me in the present moment :) The book ‘the power of now’ by Eckhart Tolle is great for this. I can’t change reality so it’s just learning to accept the things I find weird or don’t understand.. Then I go to make myself a cup of tea and things feel ok again 😂
Also as you learn to care for your anxiety over time things won’t feel so big and scary so it’s just trusting in the process and keep pursuing peace in every part of your life ❤️
Thankyou so much I relate to your story a lot. Iv been feeling very suicidal myself for months now because of feeling like I see things differently and not feeling connected etc. It can feel so isolating because like you said nobody really gets it unless you’ve been through it. My DPDR was triggered by a panic attack on a video on the simulation theory and then it spiraled from there, so right off the bat the existential thoughts were there and my anxiety has been surrounded around them. It feels weird that nobody else is freaking out over the absurdity everyday and just living life lol. I just really want to reach a place of internal peace again and move forward with life not caring about these questions. I’ll be living everyday life and then get these intrusive thoughts like “how is this happening” etc.
@@CourtneySDawnhi Courtney! I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone! I’ve been struggling with the same thing you have for a couple months now and I totally understand what you’re feeling. I want you to know you are loved and not alone and I am rooting for you
@@sarahstovall9979 Thankyou so much💓💓 it means a lot, it’s been a little over 4 months for me since this all started. How are you doing?
Does anyone else get a weird dizzy feeling in their eyes and head while having this dpdr???
Existential OCD and dissociative amnesia in dpdr is awful and probably the worst thing ever
Does anyone else get a weird dizzy feeling in their eyes and head while having this dpdr???