jodie arias is in jail 4 murder and cannot remember what happened....she makes up different scenes on how it happened...because she disassociated, when it happened...she is in AZ jail...try 2 get her help...she has the makings 4 a great book....
I have dissociation, but its like all the time. I dont remember a time when I wasnt dissociated. I also have depression, PTSD and anxiety...so what my therapist is doing is she is trying to expose me to my traumatic experiences again and help me learn the truth of what happened. I probably shouldnt be broadcasting my deep problems on youtube, but whatever. So do you think my therapist's methods are affective? (Will be affective?)
pretty sure i have this. every one around me just feels like a movie, i don't even care what people think about me at all, it's like i never have to suffer my own pain because i'm just an observer of it all. even when i lift weights the intensity seems to have become dumbed down and i'm able to push harder because of this.
hey doc! i'm bipolar and did.mpd with a good helping of ptsd. i made a collage of the ego states or personalities in me and it was about a hundred but some don't have names so i had to m ake some names up for them. i miss my therapist but she's quit/retired and i'm lookin for a good therapist for myself. in dfw or midcities in texas. hate starting over, and writing my autobiography bring to front burners and some is ugly. on cogentin for the jaw clenching it works! but now i wear glasses to see~
My 19 year old son has been dealing with symptoms of chronic depersonalization. It began a few months after his older brother completed suicide. Prior to this trauma, he never had any serious mental illness. You mentioned using a kappa antagonist as a possible treatment, would you recommend trying this at some point? If so, which one and have there been studies using this type of treatment. As you stated, most doctors know very little about this. BTW, thank you for all you do!
i've used salvia, dxm, and various opiates so yes i know what it's like. now i'm thinking, if naloxone is used to treat opiate overdoses and is an opiate antagonist, would it be useful? just a thought.
What if you just feel lightheaded like you're breathing nitrous oxide gas at the dentist 24/7? I don't really have different personalities like the faces on the shirt, I just feel WEIRD all the time .
when I was working as a manager at a retail store I remember going into a "state" while interviewing a potential job candidate.
I felt so anxious it was like I felt out of my head. Shaky and like I'm not "there." I just wanted it to end. I started avoiding a lot of situations because of feeling like this.
I get like that too when I panic.
I feel like doctors want to treat me like bipolar/depressed when my real issues are in the back of the dsm.
Good video! I have suffered with derealization for about 17 years. The one thing that definitely helped me and they're doing a lot of testing with it is Naltrexone and Naloxone. I have been told it is some type of opiate/endorphin blocker. I got prescribe Naltrexone and took it in low dose for starting with 3 then up to 4.5mgs per day. Pros- it took away my anxiety like an advil for a headache when nothing else has ever worked for me, allowed me to eat things I was allergic and sensitive to
@iHomestarrunner69 good that you know now :) treat the cause of the DP, and you can get rid of it. Treat the anxiety/depression etc, be patient, it takes time but you can get rid of DP.
I have depersonalization disorder, I was diagnosed this year...before that I took meds for anxiety and none of them worked...you said there's no medication for dissociative disorders...so what do I do then? No psychologist/psychiatrist was able to help me...I just have to live with it then?
I hate dissociating. I do it alllll the time It makes me fell like such an idiot. I have listened to what you have to say about it yet. I get the energy to turn my speakers on. I have all 3 symptoms oh and they say dissociative amnesia. I dont really listen to much ri what they say. They blame it on borderline personality disorder and ptsd. I've been diagnosed with everything so I dont listen too much. But these things happen to me all the time and they really suck
who says the kappa opioid recepter is responsible, wouldnt have thought that. Its certainly a symtom of benzo withdrawal so i assumed that Gaba dysregulation would be the cause, in saying that tho opiates can help benzo withdrawal, bloody complicated trying to pin down a common cause of this all i can say is its scary as hell.
This has happened to me a few times. The best way I can think of describing it is this: If you've ever had a dream that you were at say, your friends house, but the physical structure around you WASNT your friends house, but you still knew you were there? Its like walking around like that all day. Where everywhere you go that is very familiar to you, you feel like you've never been there before, but you still know where you are. Very weird, and very upsetting.
I recall that I was diagnosed as having both schizoaffective? and DID. As for voices, these may have related to both, but typically, I recall, had missing time hearing the voices and then a denial stage when things were off and switching on and off. I'd feel panicked, I suppose like autism and sometimes tears. If these people are in a hightened stressful environment, than there might be a dissociative event having heard the voice, but then repressed it and or it was related to an alter?
That's strange you bring this up doc because I have been saying,to my dco,that I feel like there is s thick pain of glass between me and my environment and I have no emotional or mental response.It happens sometimes when I can't remember something.Once I sat in my office on my lunch break and watched a shadow cross the floor,and when I snapped out of it,I thought my lunch must be over,but it was 6pm.I get off work at 4:30,and to me it was just a brief moment.
Tramadol is a Kappa agonist right? I took it last year, I hated it. Made my eyes roll up into my head, changed my sensitivity to hot/cold, made me semi conscious like physically asleep Inc breathing, but mentally awake and aware. I had to eat something to take other pills and I remember having a sandwich put in my hand and later I was still sitting there staring at it blankly. Made me strangely euphoric and I slept better.
Have you ever known a case of depersonalization/dissociation where it was consciously induced by the patient? I've heard that it can be a defense mechanism to severe trauma. And if the symptom persists, can it cause serious impairment of quality of life?
@adrienne317 yes being held captive is an example of chronic type. yes its a defense mechanism used by the brain to prevent a breakdown. On brain imaging, certain areas of the brain acutally shut down which is associated with some amnesia for example, its common. I would treat the whole ptsd aggresively dr. shalev in isreal good luck, DOMMD
i have induced heavy states of dissociation using dxm a drug sold over the counter as a cough suppressant but at higher doses its a POWERFUL psychedelic dissociative drug ,
I had 2 or 3 episodes in total of depersonalization from a few extremely anxious situations.
The way I can explain it is that everything feels like a movie, and the surrounding world is dumbed down. Like how you feel right before you go under for surgery when the doctors just starts to administer the anesthetic drug to put you to sleep before surgery.
@tj203 that is exactly how i describe it! when i leave, the world around me shrinks and gets fuzzier and its less that im in life and more like im watching it, like a movie in a theatre, and i seperate the fact that the "camera" thats walking around is "me", one strong example is one time i watched the "camera" walk across the street, right through a red light, and i didnt realize that i could get hit by a car, because "i" wasnt actually in that "scene" i was just watching it, not apart of it
jodie arias is in jail 4 murder and cannot remember what happened....she makes up different scenes on how it happened...because she disassociated, when it happened...she is in AZ jail...try 2 get her help...she has the makings 4 a great book....
ElnaCopper 1 week ago
I have dissociation, but its like all the time. I dont remember a time when I wasnt dissociated. I also have depression, PTSD and anxiety...so what my therapist is doing is she is trying to expose me to my traumatic experiences again and help me learn the truth of what happened. I probably shouldnt be broadcasting my deep problems on youtube, but whatever. So do you think my therapist's methods are affective? (Will be affective?)
overthemoon206 2 months ago
Have found some efficacy with Zyprexa, Klonopin, and Luvox.
drjtk76 3 months ago
pretty sure i have this. every one around me just feels like a movie, i don't even care what people think about me at all, it's like i never have to suffer my own pain because i'm just an observer of it all. even when i lift weights the intensity seems to have become dumbed down and i'm able to push harder because of this.
severedsurvivaI 5 months ago
hey doc! i'm bipolar and did.mpd with a good helping of ptsd. i made a collage of the ego states or personalities in me and it was about a hundred but some don't have names so i had to m ake some names up for them. i miss my therapist but she's quit/retired and i'm lookin for a good therapist for myself. in dfw or midcities in texas. hate starting over, and writing my autobiography bring to front burners and some is ugly. on cogentin for the jaw clenching it works! but now i wear glasses to see~
mrshapplymarried 8 months ago
My 19 year old son has been dealing with symptoms of chronic depersonalization. It began a few months after his older brother completed suicide. Prior to this trauma, he never had any serious mental illness. You mentioned using a kappa antagonist as a possible treatment, would you recommend trying this at some point? If so, which one and have there been studies using this type of treatment. As you stated, most doctors know very little about this. BTW, thank you for all you do!
sthrift2 9 months ago
I read somewhere that DID could be
Cured by merging the personalities and the person learning better coping mechanisms than throwing themselves from their consciousness.
cassidyteufel 11 months ago
Where's your accent from ?
Aviator411 1 year ago
i've used salvia, dxm, and various opiates so yes i know what it's like. now i'm thinking, if naloxone is used to treat opiate overdoses and is an opiate antagonist, would it be useful? just a thought.
bloodyawakening 1 year ago
What if you just feel lightheaded like you're breathing nitrous oxide gas at the dentist 24/7? I don't really have different personalities like the faces on the shirt, I just feel WEIRD all the time .
rob205rob 1 year ago
when I was working as a manager at a retail store I remember going into a "state" while interviewing a potential job candidate.
I felt so anxious it was like I felt out of my head. Shaky and like I'm not "there." I just wanted it to end. I started avoiding a lot of situations because of feeling like this.
I get like that too when I panic.
I feel like doctors want to treat me like bipolar/depressed when my real issues are in the back of the dsm.
auntanti 1 year ago
Good video! I have suffered with derealization for about 17 years. The one thing that definitely helped me and they're doing a lot of testing with it is Naltrexone and Naloxone. I have been told it is some type of opiate/endorphin blocker. I got prescribe Naltrexone and took it in low dose for starting with 3 then up to 4.5mgs per day. Pros- it took away my anxiety like an advil for a headache when nothing else has ever worked for me, allowed me to eat things I was allergic and sensitive to
jasongitar 1 year ago
I didn't know Depersonalization was a "symptom" :( Thanks
iHomestarrunner69 1 year ago
@iHomestarrunner69 good that you know now :) treat the cause of the DP, and you can get rid of it. Treat the anxiety/depression etc, be patient, it takes time but you can get rid of DP.
MusicisFreedom25 1 year ago
I have depersonalization disorder, I was diagnosed this year...before that I took meds for anxiety and none of them worked...you said there's no medication for dissociative disorders...so what do I do then? No psychologist/psychiatrist was able to help me...I just have to live with it then?
mhich 1 year ago
I hate dissociating. I do it alllll the time It makes me fell like such an idiot. I have listened to what you have to say about it yet. I get the energy to turn my speakers on. I have all 3 symptoms oh and they say dissociative amnesia. I dont really listen to much ri what they say. They blame it on borderline personality disorder and ptsd. I've been diagnosed with everything so I dont listen too much. But these things happen to me all the time and they really suck
bluevamps66 1 year ago
nice shirt
Zangetseu 1 year ago
who says the kappa opioid recepter is responsible, wouldnt have thought that. Its certainly a symtom of benzo withdrawal so i assumed that Gaba dysregulation would be the cause, in saying that tho opiates can help benzo withdrawal, bloody complicated trying to pin down a common cause of this all i can say is its scary as hell.
ideosyncratic1 1 year ago
This has happened to me a few times. The best way I can think of describing it is this: If you've ever had a dream that you were at say, your friends house, but the physical structure around you WASNT your friends house, but you still knew you were there? Its like walking around like that all day. Where everywhere you go that is very familiar to you, you feel like you've never been there before, but you still know where you are. Very weird, and very upsetting.
Laura21701 1 year ago
i like you shirt, you should sell them :)
OrangeAqua 1 year ago
I recall that I was diagnosed as having both schizoaffective? and DID. As for voices, these may have related to both, but typically, I recall, had missing time hearing the voices and then a denial stage when things were off and switching on and off. I'd feel panicked, I suppose like autism and sometimes tears. If these people are in a hightened stressful environment, than there might be a dissociative event having heard the voice, but then repressed it and or it was related to an alter?
Haleon1018 1 year ago
That's strange you bring this up doc because I have been saying,to my dco,that I feel like there is s thick pain of glass between me and my environment and I have no emotional or mental response.It happens sometimes when I can't remember something.Once I sat in my office on my lunch break and watched a shadow cross the floor,and when I snapped out of it,I thought my lunch must be over,but it was 6pm.I get off work at 4:30,and to me it was just a brief moment.
Elenkhos 1 year ago
Tramadol is a Kappa agonist right? I took it last year, I hated it. Made my eyes roll up into my head, changed my sensitivity to hot/cold, made me semi conscious like physically asleep Inc breathing, but mentally awake and aware. I had to eat something to take other pills and I remember having a sandwich put in my hand and later I was still sitting there staring at it blankly. Made me strangely euphoric and I slept better.
nephthysuk 1 year ago
A psychologist made me fill out a questionnaire to check for this as part of prescreening to see if I was suitable for EMDR.
nephthysuk 1 year ago
@nephthysuk Wut's EMDR?
weasalw 1 year ago
Have you ever known a case of depersonalization/dissociation where it was consciously induced by the patient? I've heard that it can be a defense mechanism to severe trauma. And if the symptom persists, can it cause serious impairment of quality of life?
adrienne317 1 year ago
@adrienne317 yes being held captive is an example of chronic type. yes its a defense mechanism used by the brain to prevent a breakdown. On brain imaging, certain areas of the brain acutally shut down which is associated with some amnesia for example, its common. I would treat the whole ptsd aggresively dr. shalev in isreal good luck, DOMMD
DOCTOROFMINDMD 1 year ago
@DOCTOROFMINDMD Thank you. I'm sorry.. dr. shalev in isreal? My brain can't make sense of that.
adrienne317 1 year ago
@adrienne317
Professor Arie Shalev, a researcher of PTSD. The various biological aspects of it, to be more percise
sussansontag 1 year ago
i have induced heavy states of dissociation using dxm a drug sold over the counter as a cough suppressant but at higher doses its a POWERFUL psychedelic dissociative drug ,
MrJonpiersma 1 year ago
Did u just draw those faces on ur new shirt?
weasalw 1 year ago
@weasalw yes
DOCTOROFMINDMD 1 year ago
I had 2 or 3 episodes in total of depersonalization from a few extremely anxious situations.
The way I can explain it is that everything feels like a movie, and the surrounding world is dumbed down. Like how you feel right before you go under for surgery when the doctors just starts to administer the anesthetic drug to put you to sleep before surgery.
tj203 1 year ago
@tj203 excellent example thanks tj203
DOCTOROFMINDMD 1 year ago
@tj203 that is exactly how i describe it! when i leave, the world around me shrinks and gets fuzzier and its less that im in life and more like im watching it, like a movie in a theatre, and i seperate the fact that the "camera" thats walking around is "me", one strong example is one time i watched the "camera" walk across the street, right through a red light, and i didnt realize that i could get hit by a car, because "i" wasnt actually in that "scene" i was just watching it, not apart of it
DahniSmith 1 day ago
thanks doc
dantaeos 1 year ago