My experience with depersonalization

My experience with DP/DR and how it became chronic.

**I am ecstatic to say that I made a full recovery about a month after I posted this video! I know a bunch of you will ask how so first I'll say that different things work for different people. But for me it was a combination of CBT and sertraline, clonazepam & lamotragine. Good luck to all of the DP sufferers out there on their way to recovery!!

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• depersonalization
• derealization
• panick
• attacks
• depression

[reybabyrey]

people like you disappoint me. i know DP is rough, im currently going through it but if theres one thing ive learned through my countless drug intakes, its that if drugs got you into this mess of a frame of mind, they will not get you out. i have DP and suffer day to day but i decided after much research that drugs do not solve mental or emotional problems, they simply just cover them up.

take my advice and get all the help you think you may need, but do not get on meds. :/ best of luck to you.

[aaronsmom0307]

@reybabyrey

People like you, who think whatever works for them will most definitely work for everyone else, disappoint me.

For your information, I dealt with non stop, chronic DP for 2 years before resorting to medication (only when I was ready to commit suicide). The drugs saved my life and allowed my children to have a mother that could function. Now, 2 years after starting my drug regimen, I have successfully tapered off of 2 of 3. So, take *my* advice, don't be such a pompous know it all

[mrcuteblackie]

maybe you o nthave medical problem. Try to read some sopiritual books and meditate. Also, just ge a job. Do not panic

[aaronsmom0307]

@mrcuteblackie

Wow. Your expertise on this matter astounds me. /sarcasm

[HmmYepHaha]

Weed induced my DP in time until I couldn't handle it anymore. Then alcohol made it worse so I quit it all. After 3 months of DP it went away. I figured maybe because the weed was out of my system. 6 months later I thought I'de be fine to smoke weed, just like you said you did. I smoked just half a joint, and bad, complete DP again. It's been 2 months now. How long did it take you to recover after smoking weed the next time after first recovering DP? I have severe light sensitivity now.

Thanks.

[aaronsmom0307]

@HmmYepHaha

It's honestly hard for me to give a time frame because it just faded away gradually. I'd say a few months, probably. Just don't give up hope and try not to dwell on it (I know how hard it is to do that, though).

[wawahwario]

Glad to know somebody else escaped it. In 2009 I was working nights. For three months I would only get 3 hours of sleep a night. I smoked some kief from my grinder and had a horrible panic attack (from the sleep deprivation and stress) so I walked around outside for 3 hours trying to calm down which led to heat exhaustion.

It took 6 months for the derealization to go away (no DP) but it took a full 2 and a half years to fully return to myself, being able FEEL all emotions again.

[easrth]

I went to the ER, and they didn't really say anything about it. IT NEEDS MORE AWARENESS. Feeling nothing at all and feeling so distant and confused is the worst state of mind ive ever been in.

[kselogdras]

Mathew Perry's film "Numb" helped me to understand it better. Dont fell ur the only one with this illness. Let it pass, get bussy and youll get better

[kselogdras]

it also helps a lot to do something, to keep yourself busy...I have it till today,,,but im living with it, getting use to it... Always remember that time cures it all...

[BenP6395]

I've been seeing a psychiatrist and counselor for a couple years now. My depression, anxiety, and the depersonalization is terrible. I'm pretty sure I have Bi-polar disorder and very bad anxiety. My mood is completely fucked up all the time and I don't even know who I am. The medications are not working for me. Work and college is such a hard task for me. just sick of being scared.

[chimprobotics]

does anyone get the feeling of being outside/detached from there body??? like not being in sync with your body movements or unbalanced???. i have these feelings 24/7 and have done for 5 years now. i wont got to the doctor for the same reason as what many other people say about the doctor thinking your crazy but i also think where do i start to tell the doctor my problems... Ive wrote down my feelings over the years in a book so i suppose thats a start..

[thezob101]

:~(

[nunchaku1992]

i think it has a lot to do with pot.

im a very insecure person, and when im high, i would think about how life sucks and how i didnt be the best that i can be. And i would keep that thought when im sober.

Then i decided to take a 2 months break, the result is unbelievable.

Everything is real as it is and i started making myself a better person step by step.

Overall, i suggest very insecure people not to smoke weed.

[Subatomic1000]

@reybabyrey Not everyone can function or cope without meds; as a matter of fact, some get worse without it. Your "research" should have led you to that objective conclusion.

Sorry to "let you down", but you come across as an egocentric control freak-convinced that each smug thought rolling through your mind should be cast in gold. You might as well run for congress with that attitude.

Best of luck to you...unless you're above luck...

[Mah7i]

So, how are you doing now?

I've had this for years and years.