Depersonalization Disorder in the News

"Stranger to My Self" author Jeffrey Abugel discusses depersonalization on Channel 8's Let's Talk Live, Washington DC. The first live discussion of DPD on major network television.

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Science & Technology

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• Depersonalization
• Disorder
• anxiety
• mental
• illness

[Streeetball3r]

How come you don't speak of the actual underlying causes of dp? Like emotional abuse, trauma or disfunctunal family systems

[JeffAbu]

@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]

@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.

[nngria]

i dotn want to take 11 years!!! i want it gone NOW

[JeffAbu]

@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

[TaintedBeautifully]

I wish she would have stopped interrupting him.

[gwgplaya]

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

[MarcosEzekiel]

i feel like i have this. but ive never done drugs in my life?

[MsOgx]

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 !

[chidoTV]

11 fuckin' years!!! I want this shit to end now!

[RazR131]

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.

[DauntlessPT]

@gwgplaya Thank you

[gwgplaya]

@DauntlessPT good luck to you

[DauntlessPT]

@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

[gwgplaya]

@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

[DauntlessPT]

@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 = |