what exactly to do to stop this i have depersonalization and derealization but i did not smoke weed i don smoke cigarettes ! how to stop this i want my life back i am 17 !
Panic attacks, loss of appetite, the feeling of living life outside your body,the feeling of living in a dream, continuous negative thoughts, troubling and obsessive thoughts, excessive stress and worry, trouble sleeping. You are not alone. There are many others who have these experiences. I USE TO, but NO longer have them. I found what worked. I am NOT SELLING anything, I just want to share the process that freed me of anxiety. Please watch my intro. video for more info! Stay positive!
So it is possible to live a long, abundant life? I go through the day all right, but there isn't an hour that goes by that I don't wish i felt normal, it makes me even slightly worried. Sometimes the feeling can turn pretty scary pretty quick.
THIS SHIT PATHETIC FROM AN EX-SUFFEREER.THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME THIS CONDITION IS DIVERSION AND DISTRACTION.IF YOU HAVE DPD STOP LOOKING UP THE TOPIC AND DWELLING ON YOUR CONDITION GET BACK TO THE REGULAR MOTIONS OF LIFE LIVE LIKE YOUVE NEVER HAD IT IT AND YOU WILL SOON REALIZE THERES NOTHING TO BE ANXIOUS ABOUT.YOURE ANYGDALA IS IN OVERDRIVE DUE TO YOUR PREVIOUS PANIC ATTACK AND YOU KEEP FEEDING THIS NON-EXISTENT FEAR BY THINKING AND LIVING AN ANXOIUS LIFESTYE.STOP OBSSESSING AND YOUL BE GOOD
My dp is always changing, im always insecure of my self.. I feel so agonized and scared, sometimes i want to kill myself cause this seems no longer to make sense.. Been like this for a year, just want everything to be ok again... I want to be normal
@DauntlessPT I agree 100% easier said then done.I cant explain how horrible that year was for me and how hopeless i felt and how hard i tryed to not go insane.Thats besides the point but i stil remember the day i woke up went to the shower and went a whole morning without thinking about it.It was the biggest relief of my life and from then on my life was back on track and relized the only reason i felt this way was because i was anxious.DIVERT yourself and i assure you youl be well
@gwgplaya The problem is that i wake up and my first thoughts are about dp and stupid things, and that goes for the whole day till i get to sleep, sleep is the only way i feel normal.. This started cause of smoking weed, i quit, but now im afraid that my brain is damaged and i wont overcome dp.. I have lots of fears like this one, my biggest is that i wont overcome this and i will have to deal with it for the rest of my life = |
@DauntlessPT The only reason you feel this way is because when your amygdala is in anxiety mode "persay" all of your sensory organs are scanning and looking for something to be anxious about but obviously theres nothing to be afraid of externaly so its your minds job to.this causes the irrational thought process and dissosociative state.i got mine from weed to lol but hey if u need more help id be hapy to share with you the charles lindon method so you can overcome this.It helped me
@gwgplaya Im just afraid that my brain is damaged due to marijuana and that i will be like this forever.. I fear i will never overcome this, thats my biggest fear , but that information you gave me is good, thanks
how do u know if ur suffering from depression or dpd..what i mean is,how do u know wich one ur suffering from.i started slowly getting depressed at age 11 and im now 17 and my depression has gotten worst and worst and since bout 3 months ago i started feeling like life wasnt real..like i was a robot with no emotions goin thru the motions and everything else.so what do u hink i have?can u have both depresseion and dpd at the same time
@teenbeat016 I WILL BE TRUTHFUL WITH YOU...THEY NOW THE TRUTH AND THE KNOW WHY PEOPLE SUFFER FROM THIS AND IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO FIND OUT THIS SIMPLE NUTRIENT....SEVER LOW MAGNESIUM CAUSES THE MIND TO SPLIT CAUSE THIS EFFECT......THE MORE MAG YOU LOOSE THE MORE STRESS YOU GET....ITS NOTHING MORE THEN MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY.....USE EPSOM SALT(MAGNESIUM SULFATE) TO SAOK IN AND MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTS TO GET YOUIR LEVELS UP...
Yes you can have both at the same time. I have suffered since the year 2000! Do you go to the GYM? i know its hard, i'll be in the flat shaking brain like fog everythnig feels scary and dark (hard to put into words) i think back to situations that i felt like it before worsening the problem. DO not try to analyse it, distract your mind anything! go to the gym and do some intense workout it can help lift it! good luck to you :)
I have suffered from this years ago. All the feelings. Often ended up in my room closin my eyes crying. It went away in months matter of time. And 3 years later it came back. And now I've been suffering for a month now. My only hope is that I have gotten through it before but I often wonder can I do it again? I try to laugh and be with my friends but inside I'm saying to myself I'm not happy I don't feel real I don't feel like myself I feel distant and it terrifying. Sometimes it's better than
Does everyone experience this once in a while? Because I remember this occuring even when I was a child, just a sudden feeling I'm not me and I'm not really here, but it went away in a split of second. Kind of like déjà vu, the feeling is different, but it is also really strange and it lasts the same time. That did not bother me at all. Is this normal?
It became really frequent and it lasts longer in the past few months. I just wonder whether it was normal before it got frequent.
This disorder is true pain, feels like i can't go a day without feeling that separation from my mind and body and that robot feeling. I HATE this feeling, and all i can do is pray that it goes away
@JeffAbu what would b ur response to a person like me saying that all that DPD is is the realization that we r all part of the One Godhead and that we r just souls in a material body, n that this metaphysical world is a lie...the truth is the eternal light and love known as God...
I've been dealing with hideous nightmare every day since 2008. Been in therapy for 3.5 years and I still have it.
It gets worse around family and intimate situations, which obviously is a huge clue about its source, but getting to the root of it is like peeling away a million layers of an unconscious onion. I'm afraid my only option is to find the right cocktail of meds that will make me feel somewhat human again while I spend the rest of my life reaching around in the dark in therapy.
i need help 2 years ago i smoked weed and all i had was a redbull or two i didnt eat anything all day and after i smoked i felt like i blacked out now ever sence i feel like im in a dream for the first week after i couldint feel anything it realy felt like a dream now i can feel but i stil feel like im in a dream and have panic attacks do i have depersonalization but i dont feel like someone is looking through my eyes
@Streeetball3r I do, of course, go into that at great length in both books i have written. But with limited time on television, the most pressing issue, as far as those who invited me were concerned, was the dramatic increase in cases due to the trigger of drugs. Many encounter DPD through drugs, with no traceable underlying causes except some physiological predisposition.
@JeffAbu I was one of the lucky people who responded well to one of the older antidepressants that hits on many neurotransmitters at once. That lifted me up, and the rest was a matter of educating myself in every way about all the implications DPD may involve, my own form of Acceptance and Commitment therapy, and sheer time. I tell my personal story in the book, so please check it out.
@JeffAbu Please everyone, including Dr/Mr. Jeff Abu, please search on Google for HPPDOnline. It is a central hub for disorders of this type, and needs to be known.
@nngria It took me 11 years even to find a name for this thing, this "filth." So it has been my goal through these decades to inject the term, and the condition itself, into the mainstream consciousness. Whether one agrees with all i have written about it to date or not doesn't matter. Bringing it to the forefront will help give DP the attention it deserves and hopefully prevent people from losing their best years, as I did mine. Good luck. Jeff A
hi, i start saying that i have this disorder.. i am a mexican, living in mexico... but i took me almost ten years to know what was happening to me.. what I would like to know if this disorder is mental or physical... there is no information about this issue here in mexicoo...... pleaseee,, help meee... i feel dying sometimess.... now i am 26, Im still feeling the samee ..
Thank you Jeffabu, I started with this when I was 12, it was difficult to focus at school because of it, i couldn't talk about it, becuase I had no idea what was happening I was already feeling outcasted because of the dpd I didn't want to be labeled an outcast the rest of my life, I'm 22 now and had dpd again since i was 18. I find it so difficult to listen to people because of this condition, and because of it Its hard to socialize. I'm just glad somones giving dpd the air time it needs
i think i got in 2, but its been soo long, that i dont even remember wat it feels to be normal.. i feel like i watch myself, and not that I AM myself. i feel out of myself
I miss when I loved life, when I enjoyed it, when I looked forward to living the next day. Now all I see is the suffering of the next day, laid out before me. Sometimes, I have moments where I forget that it's there, but most of the time, it's what I think about all the time, as soon as I wake up, and as soon as I go to bed.
@RuneFinity44 i suggest you tell everyone who is close to you because they can give you support. I also suffer from this and it helps a lot that people who are close to you know what you are feeling.
I suffered depersonalization as a side effect of taking minocycline prescribed to me by a doctor.
It was like my life was over because I didn't think I'd ever be 'me' again. However, I wasn't able to be worried about it because no matter what, I couldn't feel emotions. Music didn't interest me, didn't have emotion twords people, etc.
After I stopped taking the meds everything went back to normal, thank goodness.
@sdc1213 Not true. I co-authored Feeling Unreal and can tell you that some important studies and/or observations were made after 2006, and included in Stranger To My Self. Because the latter was written from the viewpoint of an embedded journalist as such, some of the earlier research and foregone conclusions about DPD were brought into question without the biases sometimes inherent to different schools of psychology or psychiatry.
@skating0813 Not true. The plasticity of the brain, aka its ability to rewire and repair itself in a way, is being shown to be more and more powerful than was ever though previously, and that is not even including pharmacutical drugs that can help as well. Stay positive my friend.
I am suffering from this and I expect a cure will be out in a year time. A drug call nalmefene can block the kappa opiopate receptor witch is likely to make this state
No single medication has been shown to work above all others in treating DPD. To explain the things that can help, and why or why not, takes a book, not a 6 minute interview. Still people want a magic bullet to make their problems go away as quickly as they came. There is a lot more to this condition than taking a pill and feeling "normal again." Read the damn book!
Wake up and smell the coffee. You ARE a robot. AND this video is part of a brainwashing process to keep everyone believing that noticing this is insane.....
Awesome! Great to see this shit on TV! Lets get this known so it doesn't happen as much! I went through 4 weeks of hell before i found out it was DP anxiety related.
Thank you for this Jeffrey Abugel! I've been suffering from DPD for about 7 months, triggered by weed. It's changed alot and I feel much better, I've even had normal days. It's true that there are very few specialists on this disorder, and I don't think my therapist is familiar that I'm suffering from a disorder. I'm trying to find my own way out of this. I read "Feeling Unreal" and I'm gonna read "Stranger to myself" aswell. Thank you.
Don't worry it gets better ;) It doesn't bother me anymore but of course I would be happy if I ever go back to normal. I used to think others had an advantage over me but now I see it in a different way...I feel we have an advantage over "them," the normal people.
I don't believe medication will make it better. I took medication for 4 mos. in 09 and stopped taking it because I wanted to learn how to deal with it on my own. I'm not anxious anymore, only when I'm stressed out but I try to ignore it and I have found out, that kinda works for me. I don't want to feel like a zombie and that's what medication does to me. I want to control my own mind. So yeah that's how I have come this far not to really care about it anymore.
They are suggestions that Casey may have suffered from Depersonalization Disorder. It is the second time (that I am aware of) in which a defense looked toward DPD as a possible reason behind lack of affect and a resulting crime. I have studied DPD for 35 years, written two books about it, and spoken with hundreds of people who know it intimately. She may have suffered from DID, Dissociative Fugue, or Narcissism, but not DPD. DPD attacks the Self. What remains is incapable of harming another.
I have a question, why did you not mention the symptom of living in a dream? That's my main problem and i'm sure that's what distresses most people who have DPD.
Stranger to My Self Jeff's latest book is a MUST READ for anyone who suffers from, thinks they might suffer from or cares about someone who suffers from DPD. It is the most up to date comprehensive review of the disorder available today.
LOL you guys do know that all depersonalization is, is anxiety right .....
gwgplaya 1 week ago
This disorder sucks.. is there any self help stuff?
justaksh 2 weeks ago
I think I have this...
FluffyFerret2000 2 weeks ago
i feel like i have this. but ive never done drugs in my life?
MarcosEzekiel 2 weeks ago
what exactly to do to stop this i have depersonalization and derealization but i did not smoke weed i don smoke cigarettes ! how to stop this i want my life back i am 17 !
MsOgx 2 weeks ago
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Panic attacks, loss of appetite, the feeling of living life outside your body,the feeling of living in a dream, continuous negative thoughts, troubling and obsessive thoughts, excessive stress and worry, trouble sleeping. You are not alone. There are many others who have these experiences. I USE TO, but NO longer have them. I found what worked. I am NOT SELLING anything, I just want to share the process that freed me of anxiety. Please watch my intro. video for more info! Stay positive!
Tunein2TLCTV 3 weeks ago
11 fuckin' years!!! I want this shit to end now!
chidoTV 4 weeks ago
So it is possible to live a long, abundant life? I go through the day all right, but there isn't an hour that goes by that I don't wish i felt normal, it makes me even slightly worried. Sometimes the feeling can turn pretty scary pretty quick.
RazR131 4 weeks ago
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moonasha 1 month ago
For the Record, I had DPD before I smoked pot..
andypmz07 1 month ago
I have this. Been 5 years, wont go away. Help.
crackernugs 1 month ago
THIS SHIT PATHETIC FROM AN EX-SUFFEREER.THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME THIS CONDITION IS DIVERSION AND DISTRACTION.IF YOU HAVE DPD STOP LOOKING UP THE TOPIC AND DWELLING ON YOUR CONDITION GET BACK TO THE REGULAR MOTIONS OF LIFE LIVE LIKE YOUVE NEVER HAD IT IT AND YOU WILL SOON REALIZE THERES NOTHING TO BE ANXIOUS ABOUT.YOURE ANYGDALA IS IN OVERDRIVE DUE TO YOUR PREVIOUS PANIC ATTACK AND YOU KEEP FEEDING THIS NON-EXISTENT FEAR BY THINKING AND LIVING AN ANXOIUS LIFESTYE.STOP OBSSESSING AND YOUL BE GOOD
gwgplaya 1 month ago 7
@gwgplaya Thanks dude, it was very helpful..
I know that, but its hard to do it =s
My dp is always changing, im always insecure of my self.. I feel so agonized and scared, sometimes i want to kill myself cause this seems no longer to make sense.. Been like this for a year, just want everything to be ok again... I want to be normal
DauntlessPT 1 month ago
@DauntlessPT I agree 100% easier said then done.I cant explain how horrible that year was for me and how hopeless i felt and how hard i tryed to not go insane.Thats besides the point but i stil remember the day i woke up went to the shower and went a whole morning without thinking about it.It was the biggest relief of my life and from then on my life was back on track and relized the only reason i felt this way was because i was anxious.DIVERT yourself and i assure you youl be well
gwgplaya 1 month ago
@gwgplaya The problem is that i wake up and my first thoughts are about dp and stupid things, and that goes for the whole day till i get to sleep, sleep is the only way i feel normal.. This started cause of smoking weed, i quit, but now im afraid that my brain is damaged and i wont overcome dp.. I have lots of fears like this one, my biggest is that i wont overcome this and i will have to deal with it for the rest of my life = |
DauntlessPT 1 month ago
@DauntlessPT The only reason you feel this way is because when your amygdala is in anxiety mode "persay" all of your sensory organs are scanning and looking for something to be anxious about but obviously theres nothing to be afraid of externaly so its your minds job to.this causes the irrational thought process and dissosociative state.i got mine from weed to lol but hey if u need more help id be hapy to share with you the charles lindon method so you can overcome this.It helped me
gwgplaya 1 month ago
@gwgplaya Im just afraid that my brain is damaged due to marijuana and that i will be like this forever.. I fear i will never overcome this, thats my biggest fear , but that information you gave me is good, thanks
DauntlessPT 1 month ago
@DauntlessPT good luck to you
gwgplaya 1 month ago
@gwgplaya Thank you
DauntlessPT 1 month ago
@gwgplaya Well put man! That's absolutely true, it's really the only way.
ShadyEskimos 1 month ago
@gwgplaya this is 100% true!!!
letsgotowar666 1 week ago
@letsgotowar666 your absolutely right thanks for saying that :]
letsgotowar666 1 week ago
I had this for a month, but i cant imagine 11 years holy fuck!
pointzeroblack 2 months ago
Gonna check out the book thank you for this.
ladysoufaniehmirna 2 months ago
I have derealization I think it's because of depression im not sure.
TheKgarner33 2 months ago
how do u know if ur suffering from depression or dpd..what i mean is,how do u know wich one ur suffering from.i started slowly getting depressed at age 11 and im now 17 and my depression has gotten worst and worst and since bout 3 months ago i started feeling like life wasnt real..like i was a robot with no emotions goin thru the motions and everything else.so what do u hink i have?can u have both depresseion and dpd at the same time
teenbeat016 2 months ago
@teenbeat016 I WILL BE TRUTHFUL WITH YOU...THEY NOW THE TRUTH AND THE KNOW WHY PEOPLE SUFFER FROM THIS AND IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO FIND OUT THIS SIMPLE NUTRIENT....SEVER LOW MAGNESIUM CAUSES THE MIND TO SPLIT CAUSE THIS EFFECT......THE MORE MAG YOU LOOSE THE MORE STRESS YOU GET....ITS NOTHING MORE THEN MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY.....USE EPSOM SALT(MAGNESIUM SULFATE) TO SAOK IN AND MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTS TO GET YOUIR LEVELS UP...
starr1one 2 months ago
@starr1one did you overcome dp with magnesium?
MrBrooklyn4lyfe 1 month ago
@MrBrooklyn4lyfe YES I DID
starr1one 1 month ago
@MrBrooklyn4lyfe YES SURE DID
starr1one 1 month ago
@starr1one how do you know
rooster555555 1 month ago
Yes you can have both at the same time. I have suffered since the year 2000! Do you go to the GYM? i know its hard, i'll be in the flat shaking brain like fog everythnig feels scary and dark (hard to put into words) i think back to situations that i felt like it before worsening the problem. DO not try to analyse it, distract your mind anything! go to the gym and do some intense workout it can help lift it! good luck to you :)
DilkingtonsDiary 2 months ago
for me it was caused by trying weed
LIGHTRONIX 2 months ago
I have suffered from this years ago. All the feelings. Often ended up in my room closin my eyes crying. It went away in months matter of time. And 3 years later it came back. And now I've been suffering for a month now. My only hope is that I have gotten through it before but I often wonder can I do it again? I try to laugh and be with my friends but inside I'm saying to myself I'm not happy I don't feel real I don't feel like myself I feel distant and it terrifying. Sometimes it's better than
crimsonchin126 2 months ago
Does everyone experience this once in a while? Because I remember this occuring even when I was a child, just a sudden feeling I'm not me and I'm not really here, but it went away in a split of second. Kind of like déjà vu, the feeling is different, but it is also really strange and it lasts the same time. That did not bother me at all. Is this normal?
It became really frequent and it lasts longer in the past few months. I just wonder whether it was normal before it got frequent.
VeggieXiaoJie 2 months ago
@VeggieXiaoJie funny thing is the same thing happen to me while i was a child.
MrBrooklyn4lyfe 1 month ago
This disorder is true pain, feels like i can't go a day without feeling that separation from my mind and body and that robot feeling. I HATE this feeling, and all i can do is pray that it goes away
SageOfTheLeaf 3 months ago
thank you sooo muchhh this is exactly what happens. didn't think anyone understood
jejedropful 3 months ago
@JeffAbu what would b ur response to a person like me saying that all that DPD is is the realization that we r all part of the One Godhead and that we r just souls in a material body, n that this metaphysical world is a lie...the truth is the eternal light and love known as God...
ssssaintmarcus 3 months ago
@ssssaintmarcus I would say that many sufferers of DPD/DP/DR do not believe that at all, so it can't be that.
forestloves 2 months ago
I've been dealing with hideous nightmare every day since 2008. Been in therapy for 3.5 years and I still have it.
It gets worse around family and intimate situations, which obviously is a huge clue about its source, but getting to the root of it is like peeling away a million layers of an unconscious onion. I'm afraid my only option is to find the right cocktail of meds that will make me feel somewhat human again while I spend the rest of my life reaching around in the dark in therapy.
scotchvelo 3 months ago
does it go away?
TheKgarner33 3 months ago
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i need help 2 years ago i smoked weed and all i had was a redbull or two i didnt eat anything all day and after i smoked i felt like i blacked out now ever sence i feel like im in a dream for the first week after i couldint feel anything it realy felt like a dream now i can feel but i stil feel like im in a dream and have panic attacks do i have depersonalization but i dont feel like someone is looking through my eyes
zmoney348 3 months ago
How come you don't speak of the actual underlying causes of dp? Like emotional abuse, trauma or disfunctunal family systems
Streeetball3r 4 months ago 2
@Streeetball3r I do, of course, go into that at great length in both books i have written. But with limited time on television, the most pressing issue, as far as those who invited me were concerned, was the dramatic increase in cases due to the trigger of drugs. Many encounter DPD through drugs, with no traceable underlying causes except some physiological predisposition.
JeffAbu 4 months ago 2
@JeffAbu Ok, but how did you overcome it?
Streeetball3r 4 months ago
@JeffAbu I was one of the lucky people who responded well to one of the older antidepressants that hits on many neurotransmitters at once. That lifted me up, and the rest was a matter of educating myself in every way about all the implications DPD may involve, my own form of Acceptance and Commitment therapy, and sheer time. I tell my personal story in the book, so please check it out.
JeffAbu 4 months ago
@JeffAbu Please everyone, including Dr/Mr. Jeff Abu, please search on Google for HPPDOnline. It is a central hub for disorders of this type, and needs to be known.
Locrian4 1 month ago
i dotn want to take 11 years!!! i want it gone NOW
nngria 4 months ago
@nngria It took me 11 years even to find a name for this thing, this "filth." So it has been my goal through these decades to inject the term, and the condition itself, into the mainstream consciousness. Whether one agrees with all i have written about it to date or not doesn't matter. Bringing it to the forefront will help give DP the attention it deserves and hopefully prevent people from losing their best years, as I did mine. Good luck. Jeff A
JeffAbu 4 months ago 2
@JeffAbu please answer, what did you do to overcome this? i had this for about 10 years
MrBrooklyn4lyfe 1 month ago
hi, i start saying that i have this disorder.. i am a mexican, living in mexico... but i took me almost ten years to know what was happening to me.. what I would like to know if this disorder is mental or physical... there is no information about this issue here in mexicoo...... pleaseee,, help meee... i feel dying sometimess.... now i am 26, Im still feeling the samee ..
198511Luis 1 month ago
@198511Luis dude, i'm from mexico too, and have somewhat overcome it, message me if you feel like having a talk about this (:
hammeringz 1 month ago
Thank you Jeffabu, I started with this when I was 12, it was difficult to focus at school because of it, i couldn't talk about it, becuase I had no idea what was happening I was already feeling outcasted because of the dpd I didn't want to be labeled an outcast the rest of my life, I'm 22 now and had dpd again since i was 18. I find it so difficult to listen to people because of this condition, and because of it Its hard to socialize. I'm just glad somones giving dpd the air time it needs
andypmz07 1 month ago
the interviewer is so noisy, intrusive and penetrating in the way she asks the questions..
cipher0413 4 months ago
shits real man and it sucks.........I wanna be happy again=[
KieferL337 4 months ago
i think i got in 2, but its been soo long, that i dont even remember wat it feels to be normal.. i feel like i watch myself, and not that I AM myself. i feel out of myself
rockisbetter 4 months ago
That lady needs to STFU.
bakurashi13 4 months ago 2
I miss when I loved life, when I enjoyed it, when I looked forward to living the next day. Now all I see is the suffering of the next day, laid out before me. Sometimes, I have moments where I forget that it's there, but most of the time, it's what I think about all the time, as soon as I wake up, and as soon as I go to bed.
sirmeris 4 months ago
Oh my God, my 'crazy' was in the news! It was ACKNOWLEDGED. Awesome.
AutumnAngelx3 4 months ago
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markisradicaldudical 5 months ago
@markisradicaldudical i bet you drink f1u0ridaded water which causes this mental mess.
shanetyty 4 months ago
@markisradicaldudical hahahaa
rockisbetter 4 months ago
What a cruel condition.
blueaxial 5 months ago
9 years so far. Not expecting a cure, but I'm to the point where I can live my life despite it.
kriamt27 5 months ago
I wish she would have stopped interrupting him.
TaintedBeautifully 5 months ago 27
@TaintedBeautifully i agree with you bro
snake2477 5 months ago
Fuck 11 years
SuperBshady 5 months ago
I have this. I am 15, male. It started 6 months ago.
I thought I was losing my mind, going insane, I thought about killing myself.
I am SOOOOOOOOOO glad I found out what it is. But.... what do I do now? Who do I tell?
Thanks =)
RuneFinity44 5 months ago
@RuneFinity44 i suggest you tell everyone who is close to you because they can give you support. I also suffer from this and it helps a lot that people who are close to you know what you are feeling.
migue2255 5 months ago
@RuneFinity44 Read philosophy. Ponder about what life is. Figure out your strength and happiness.
avocadodesu 5 months ago
I suffered depersonalization as a side effect of taking minocycline prescribed to me by a doctor.
It was like my life was over because I didn't think I'd ever be 'me' again. However, I wasn't able to be worried about it because no matter what, I couldn't feel emotions. Music didn't interest me, didn't have emotion twords people, etc.
After I stopped taking the meds everything went back to normal, thank goodness.
CAPSLOCKBRO 5 months ago
i read the book, it gave me a lot of informations and stuff but actually no tips to cure ...
GuessWhoIsRobin 6 months ago
@GuessWhoIsRobin Same, good information, but not anymore information then what was in Feeling Unreal which came out 4 years prior to this book.
sdc1213 4 months ago
@sdc1213 Not true. I co-authored Feeling Unreal and can tell you that some important studies and/or observations were made after 2006, and included in Stranger To My Self. Because the latter was written from the viewpoint of an embedded journalist as such, some of the earlier research and foregone conclusions about DPD were brought into question without the biases sometimes inherent to different schools of psychology or psychiatry.
JeffAbu 4 months ago
Please continue coverage of DPD in mainstream media. It needs to be talked out more! Someone very close to me is affected by this.
TheRawtarian 6 months ago 2
Kinda feels like you can never be 'normal' again...
skating0813 6 months ago 24
@skating0813 Not true. The plasticity of the brain, aka its ability to rewire and repair itself in a way, is being shown to be more and more powerful than was ever though previously, and that is not even including pharmacutical drugs that can help as well. Stay positive my friend.
Locrian4 1 month ago
I am suffering from this and I expect a cure will be out in a year time. A drug call nalmefene can block the kappa opiopate receptor witch is likely to make this state
Thorsted67 6 months ago
@Thorsted67 l i bet you drink f1u0ridaded water which causes this mental mess, that's all you need to know
shanetyty 4 months ago
No single medication has been shown to work above all others in treating DPD. To explain the things that can help, and why or why not, takes a book, not a 6 minute interview. Still people want a magic bullet to make their problems go away as quickly as they came. There is a lot more to this condition than taking a pill and feeling "normal again." Read the damn book!
JeffAbu 6 months ago 3
@JeffAbu there is a magic bullet, it's called stop drinking f1u0ridaded water....
shanetyty 4 months ago
Please could someone who knows Spanish subtitled this video, thanks.
snadapersonals 6 months ago
Wake up and smell the coffee. You ARE a robot. AND this video is part of a brainwashing process to keep everyone believing that noticing this is insane.....
marzipanporcelain 6 months ago
@marzipanporcelain
Put away the tin foil hat bro.
CAPSLOCKBRO 5 months ago
About time this got out :)
artigas92 7 months ago
@VivisepuIture look up state specific memory.
GGTopGuitarist 7 months ago
Awesome! Great to see this shit on TV! Lets get this known so it doesn't happen as much! I went through 4 weeks of hell before i found out it was DP anxiety related.
GGTopGuitarist 7 months ago
Thank you for this Jeffrey Abugel! I've been suffering from DPD for about 7 months, triggered by weed. It's changed alot and I feel much better, I've even had normal days. It's true that there are very few specialists on this disorder, and I don't think my therapist is familiar that I'm suffering from a disorder. I'm trying to find my own way out of this. I read "Feeling Unreal" and I'm gonna read "Stranger to myself" aswell. Thank you.
Palsungen 7 months ago 2
he described it exactly like me, personality is gone.
rooster555555 9 months ago
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Don't worry it gets better ;) It doesn't bother me anymore but of course I would be happy if I ever go back to normal. I used to think others had an advantage over me but now I see it in a different way...I feel we have an advantage over "them," the normal people.
KsmSilver 9 months ago
@KsmSilver i dont feel like its an advantage it sux
rooster555555 9 months ago
@rooster555555
Yes at first it does and if you keep letting it control you but after a while you stop paying attention to it. When did you start feeling like this?
KsmSilver 9 months ago
@KsmSilver like a year ago, its almost gone
rooster555555 9 months ago
@rooster555555
Mine started in 09 and it was VERY hard at first but I managed and now I'm cool. I'm still like this 24/7 but I have accepted it.
KsmSilver 9 months ago
@KsmSilver you shud get something for anxiety then maybe ur dp will go away
rooster555555 9 months ago
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KsmSilver 9 months ago
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@rooster555555
I don't believe medication will make it better. I took medication for 4 mos. in 09 and stopped taking it because I wanted to learn how to deal with it on my own. I'm not anxious anymore, only when I'm stressed out but I try to ignore it and I have found out, that kinda works for me. I don't want to feel like a zombie and that's what medication does to me. I want to control my own mind. So yeah that's how I have come this far not to really care about it anymore.
KsmSilver 9 months ago
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KsmSilver 9 months ago
They are suggestions that Casey may have suffered from Depersonalization Disorder. It is the second time (that I am aware of) in which a defense looked toward DPD as a possible reason behind lack of affect and a resulting crime. I have studied DPD for 35 years, written two books about it, and spoken with hundreds of people who know it intimately. She may have suffered from DID, Dissociative Fugue, or Narcissism, but not DPD. DPD attacks the Self. What remains is incapable of harming another.
JeffAbu 9 months ago
Awesome! About time they talk about this on t.v. I've had DP/DR for 2 years now and yes I'm normal :) Just "Living in a Dream" though lol.
KsmSilver 9 months ago
I have a question, why did you not mention the symptom of living in a dream? That's my main problem and i'm sure that's what distresses most people who have DPD.
Brando2600 9 months ago
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Jeffrey as a DP sufferer of 4 years I would like to personally thank you for helping spread awareness for this awful condition.
surfingisfun002 9 months ago 4
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surfingisfun002 9 months ago
Stranger to My Self Jeff's latest book is a MUST READ for anyone who suffers from, thinks they might suffer from or cares about someone who suffers from DPD. It is the most up to date comprehensive review of the disorder available today.
HopeLacroix 9 months ago