How to treat Depersonalization Derealization Disorder?
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I've had it chronically for so long that I've just learned to live with it. It's always been perceptual to me. I don't have the anxiety most people talk about with DPDR. Life just never stops feeling like a dream/movie/game and I'm always aware of that.
Disappointing that there still isn't really much that can be done. I've tried grounding myself in the world as much as possible: working out, socializing, and just having more hobbies that are physically involved, but it has surprisingly helped very little. All that helps is the distraction. Gotta always stay focused on something. The more focus the better.
It's a response to trauma on a subconscious level.
This is exactly how I feel every single day since a young child 😢
This is exactly what i feel like ever since i was 4, everything in my life feels like a movie scene in third person. Like its some sort of narrative in my life. The worse part is if I anticipate something that will also be a script or a story that i put myself into, i know what emotions might happen and ive pictured the event in my mind like the climax of a story, then improvise from there like im a play. its as if im the viewer, the character, and the author all at the same time without knowing where to go. its bothering me but ive lived with it for so long that ive always leaned on it to observe situations and describe them in great detail because it is a scene of a movie with an analysis to go with it, even if its my own life. Im worried everything in my life will be viewed as a movie, even big things are preplanned like a death of a loved one or getting my house or even getting a romantic partner. Everything is a movie and I dont know how to stop thinking of it as a movie/comic/game/show, i simply dont know.
I’ve felt this in college after a bad experience with weed. It lasted a few months then went away. Last summer I had an edible then happened again. It’s almost been a year now and I’m still dealing with the symptoms. It’s scary!
@@Vic292 nothing to worry about, relax 😇.
It’s so scary when you have a fear of death too
Nobody cares
@@guitardaddy6You play guitar?
There is a massive bright side though. As we speak their are proffesionals studying and looking for solutions to this disorder as well as many other disorders. It may not seem like it, but every minute we get closer and closer to a solution. You got this
@@guitardaddy6DUDE!!?
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Gotta remember that it can’t hurt you and that most of the time it’s just anxiety. So relax and go with the flow. Talk to a therapist or psychiatrist and let them worry about it. Everything will be okay!
Derealization has become such a big part of my life to the point where I’m rarely not derealized. It is such a rare occurrence to feel real to me that whenever I snap out of it I cry and laugh out of pure relief, even though I only get up to 2 minutes max of it. Not many people understand how much it can effect a person’s life. It’s a trauma response I learned at a young age after many years of pain, the first 8 years of my life were shit and because of that I have trauma responses so extreme I get compared to a soldier with PTSD by everyone. I’m in therapy and am currently discovering more about it, it has effected my ability of processing, learning, trusting, and communicating with people.
what helped ? were you given any medication ?
Yes, I am currently medicated. I’m medicated for multiple things, and am still learning more about how to prevent such extreme responses.
dude i’ve had it for months now man i’m only 15 this shi sucks it seems like i don’t even wanna get a job bec i feel so off and unreal and spaced out
@@bob.6662 oh like what? I have no idea what to do about it and when I am very anxious its really painful. I cant focus much or go on with the day.
@gloruas_ don't worry my friend, I've had the derealization symptom as early as the age of 6, I'm now 39 years old. It's the way your brain processes things around it. I think some people have a more sensitive nervous systems than others. Rest assured it's not a serious illness that will kill you or drive you mad :). Yes it's very annoying and can be very debilitating at some times but you can learn to adapt and live with it and control it to live a normal life.
Three things you need to focus on if you could achieve them you will eventually control it and lead a normal life.
1- diet( eliminate or greatly reduce any stimulant foods from your diet such as coffee, tea, energy drinks, soft drinks, even processed juices) and sweets and fast foods. As all these trigger the anxiety symptoms.
2-do aerobic exercise, such as( running or walking) every day between 20-30 minutes a day or at least 3-4 days a week.
3- have enough sleep at least 8 hours a day. Never skip your sleep by staying awake till late night as this triggers the derealization/depersonalization symptoms.
If you could control these three areas in your life. I guarantee you will lead a successful normal life. Wish you a good health my friend.
CBT is the better way to get out of this disorder. Because derealization and depersonalization disorder has the same psychological processes than panic disorder. If you still struggling with theses disorders, it’s because you probably keep avoiding situations that makes you scared, but in reality there are not dangerous. Remember the first time you ride a bike or jumped into a pool. You were scared as hell. Look at you today ❤️
I have derealization because I have been abused my whole life
True, though I never learned to ride a bike, and I have had a phobia of jumping into pools for 30 years. lol
Well i have no direct reason to have derealization but i just do. I didn't experience anything first hand, i don't have fears of doing stuff either. I just saw alot of unhinged stuff happening as a 5-12 year old child.
@@countryoffelinesthat’s kinda like me I don’t have a reason to really have this I’m 16 yrs old and it makes me feel physically sick sometimes if it gets bad enough. I get so convinced everything is fake that’s it’s actually insane bruh ☠️ and everything also seems so weird and small and pointless and it’s weird
@@000jacc yeah everything feels like a strange dream, im 15 and ive been struggling with this since 12 or so i think and it just bothers me how i can't enjoy anything because i suddenly get a derealization episode that's ongoing for literal HOURS. it's torturous sometimes mixed with panic and some intrusive thoughts im living in hell
Woah I heard of this term for first time. Very informative!! Thankyou for sharing ❤
It can make you spiral tho. I have these and also have bad anxiety. I had one of these once when my anxiety was getting really bad. I started screaming and crying because I felt like I had no control of anything. It makes you feel really really frustrated and I was just angry at everyone.
i know what you mean exactly its such an unbearable thing to have to go through
I feel this so much. I have these feeling but they are usually mixed with severe anxiety. Its real hell and so overwhelming and frustrating.😢
How are you doing now?
Good evidence that psybicylin could help. We need delegalization and centers to help people use these substances in a therapeutic setting.
Agreed. Psychedelics like lsd, psilocybin and mescaline can help heal mental Illness and to be honest it just seems so impossible and terrible that government wants to ban nature and medicine..
DElegalization?🤔
I'm not being super serious just havin a goof. I absolutely agree that psilocybes can be very powerful tools of healing.
What‘s the evidence for Psilocybin for treating DPDR?
Psilocybin is great but I think psychedelics are a terrible idea If you have depersonalization
I have this and it’s terrible, thank you so much for raising awareness even tho there’s not a lot of knowledge on it
I think hypnosis is way more effective for any kind of Anxiety and it really gets at the emotional Brain.
Ketamine IV therapy helped immensely. Wasn't without risks, but in the long run helped after years of deterioration in relational therapy, CBT, group DBT, EMDR, and IFS (made progress with IFS but was more useful after ketamine treatments)
Doesn't ketamine cause dissociation? I've stayed away from any drug, recreational or not, that could cause dissociation because I already have enough of it with DPDR.
I would never want to touch psycadelics with DPDR but that's just my opinion
@@notgate2624 idk bro you should try zaza once just because yolo.
@@notgate2624 it sure can. Imo, if it allows access to get to a root that is triggering more dissociative spectrum experiences, then the potential increase in short term symptoms may be worth it in the long run. Healthy caution is wise, thanks for sharing your concern!
(I have a dissociative disorder and it did temporarily increase symptoms, however those symptoms are now lower 1-2 years out than they've ever been, when paired with adequate therapy)
EMDR has to do with rapid eye movement or something, right? I’m not familiar with it or the IFS acronym you mentioned…
Had a depersonalization episode as a teenager from smoking far too much cannabis
how long did it last and how did you recover?
That one lasted a day. As far as recovery, I don't know. I still have dissociative symptoms daily.
Same thing, except I still feel detached very long after smoking, been about 5 months.
@@Kushken I have PTSD so dissociation has always been a constant for me anyway and I've just learned how to turn it on and off
That’s personally when mine all started happening for some reason I’ve been feeling it basically all day everyday from it e er since for some reason, but I have been dealing with another illness doctors can’t pinpoint related to my nerves so might be related
Edit: It was around four months ago
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Ssri and benzos can also bring on dr/dp
Yep it brought on my dpdr.
Huh? That's what I take for panic disorder. But i have derealization very badly. Its been going on years before i ever took medication
@@yolandaallen853ever get better after stopping the meds
Benzodiazepines brought me here
Dr.Tracy marks is a very knowledgeable psychiatrist her studies are really good 👍
I was in the club and I experienced it. (Not first time) I was barely keeping myself from fainting and I could only feel my legs rubbing with eachother as I was dancing. I went outside for awhile but it didn't change anything so I just tried to ignore it, even though it was everything going on at the time. It was truly a terrible experience, and I had that going on while I was almost trafficked (I had a really eye-catching dress because it was silver) and a weird guy kept filming me and another one came near me and smiled at me weirdly (both like 30-50) and I was underage. (Greek sht yes we're allowed in clubs) And that guy who filmed me started calling his friends to come in the club and when each of them came he'd point at me.
well ... this reminded me of when it used to happen randomly. I'd trade that for the chronic feeling of being outside of myself.
I have been having panic attacks and heavy derealization episodes to where I am often debilitated for days. I got on Xanax. It's a 50/50 split on whether or not it'll work, and regardless, it makes me nauseous, gives me a headache, and makes me feel generally unwell. So if it _does_ prevent a full blown panic attack, I am left feeling like I got hit by a bus basically. There are times I have straight up refused to take it. I want to get on something else, this is not for me.
Am I the only person that is obsessed at the fact that I can’t see my own face without a mirror or taking a picture. I feel like I’m going insane & I haven’t heard of this symptom . Please let me know . & use my comment to talk about your strange symptoms that nobody talks about to spread awareness on symptoms nobody talks about
Same thing here, same obsession, as if I never saw the world from the first person POV before and all of a sudden it feels SO STRANGE
Glad I am not the only one
@@BY-wk7oi Do you have depersonalization?
@@BY-wk7oi exactly like I haven’t been living with 1st person pov normally for 28 yrs now all of a sudden It feels very weird & I feel like I can’t understand how people have face to face conversations without knowing what they’re self looks like . I also can’t recall what I look like no matter how much I look at myself in the mirror
Same with the mirror, wtf
I'm wondering if the amount of tech, screen time, gaming, social media bouts and the like have something to do with this.
i feel like it can absolutely be a contributor!
I've had it I believe 26 years. Cant say im recovered but it seems to have stopped bothering me. Cbd helped take pff the edge, it's a good start. Most significant improvement was with a daily dose of magnesium glycinate, and b vitamins, potassium, etc. Also fixing my vitamin D deficiency.
Stem cells worked for my Adhd
It’s the most horrific thing and I’ve had it over 20 years on and off it happens to me if I’m stressed or even if something about my day is different it can set it off too even going on holiday the stress of arranging things can make it kick in. I’ve had it badly as I’m going away and leaving my dog it’s making me stressed out leaving him and my derealisation kicked in this morning 😢
for me its like im spectating myself in my own body or like im on autopilot mode my movements feel very robotic and weightless instead of feeling foggy and dream like i feel hyper focused, frantic and paranoid like i was going insane and i’ll forever be like how i am and i’ll be in a psychiatric hospital or like something is out to get me this is no joke normal people will never know the amount of paranoia you feel
It may be scary, yes its a fact, but its actually natural reaction to your body and brain to stress and trauma, and its pretty normal. Your brain and body just self-defense them, before destruction.
Can depersonalization develop in black people?
Skin color has nothing to do with DPDR, it all depends on person anxiety levels.
@@jaayrepzzyes im black and am having it rn again. Last time i had it was like 10 yrs ago
Lamotrigine really helped me a lot.
How so?
Almost died from benzo addiction and lamictal given for ADHD. Subjective medicine should be banned.
What you mean you almost died with Benzo medication?
completely agree
I think it makes my AVPD worse. I worry about disassociating in public, with people all around. It keeps me home, and costs me in many areas of my life. I am taking medication Sertraline in the morning, and Trazodone before bedtime to sleep
I finally found out what it’s called
Why must we suffer to be physically alive but mentally dead? No connection to anything, no way to comunicate, no interest in anything. It just sucks and i personally feel bad for all of us who experience this sad state of existence.
You know what's crazy as I'm typing this I realize I'm officially that guy now. I'm the guy who just comes back to these videos to see if everybody's okay and encourage them. I got sober two and a half years ago. I had this depersonalization crap and it would not go away it made me think I was losing my mind I was crying myself to sleep over it . Watching thousand videos about it reading everything about it. I didn't take a pill to get rid of it I didn't take a drink to get rid of it I didn't go to therapy to get rid of it. I prayed. And kept moving forward I acted like I didn't care about it one bit and it slowly got better and better and better and now it's gone I don't deal with it at all anymore. I will add a couple notes though I was drinking two monster energy drinks everyday I stopped drinking the monster and it got a lot better all of a sudden. This is the most simplified way to put it your nervous system is thinking there is a fire when there's no fire. Retrain your brain tell it it doesn't need to freak out and move forward if you keep focusing on this that's all you'll feel. Ignore it and it will go away and trust me I understand you ignore it 2 months straight and see no progress give it time it's going to work I promise. I am now free🙌
And you are going to be free too. You're not losing your mind you're not going crazy you're not a freak. And here's the most important truth of all this is not permanent. I thought it was and now I'm free. You got this.
I’ve never heard of this before. Please tell us the symptoms.
I’ve had chronic dr/dp disorder for over 3 years and nothing seems to be working (plus traumatisation from my psychiatrist/hypnotherapist didn’t help). The only thing that has slightly worked, was anti depresants with noradrenalin (hope this could help someone), I can’t go to school or outside and a lot of other shit started because of this. Did anything work for anyone strugled with this? ( sorry for the grammar english is not my first language)
i got it from smoking wayyy to much cannabis and now it won’t go away i’ve had it for 3 years 😢
I have DID, IFS helps a lot. SSRIs made my dissociaton much, much worse. Lamiactal helps.
Does depersonalization-derealization causes buzzing sounds in your ears?
Does this also happen when you play too much? If i need therapy ill be scared to tell my grandma, she'll think i play too much thats why.
In my opinion it is a starting point to something more seriously like suicide others attempted with this disorder and thinking about attempting suicide depersonalization-derealization is a major serious mental health condition I understand is part of our protective system bur when it keeps us in that State for a long time it becomes unusually and seriously for us to to cope with not to mention it brings on depression increase increase anxiety the medical professionals has to do way more better then that with the amount of people that's suffering from that disorder. it will be a lot of suicides and a lot of attempted suicides SAD it may be neurological issue but if the medical field put the right study it can be reverse if doctors put the effort of work into it by carefully study the brain and the nervous system from a deeper understanding it has to be done no excuses miss me with the BS.
The I don't know. We don't know word what doctors say nominally nowadays what kind of BS it's that what patients that's suffering with DPDR want to live in a society feeling like this who would want to live.. on the plantant witht a disorder like that this is terrible and unacceptable the medical field haven't been addressed this issue that literally makes you feel like you are a zombie you're not even living your natural human experience that can f***** up and very disturbing to live with that disorder it is a serious health pandemic needs to be addressed right away.✊💪💪
Does anybody else also feel outside of there body all the damn time like I can literally see myself take every blink which sounds crazy but that’s how I feel my whole body doesn’t feel like I’m attached to it internally
Yes i feel the same way every day every second. It’s so hard to not think about it I will pray for you god bless you
Thank God for lamotrigine. I stopped depersonalization 😊
How long did it take you?
Better question how long did you have it
I have it all my life, or more accurately since early childhood and I don't remember how it was before I had dpdr and how I got it. I got used to it but I don't really see how would I be able to get rid of it at this point.
When watch your video my depression dissapear.
I hate that I recognise the first image from doctor who when Amy was navigating through the weeping angel forest 😭😭😭
Never heard of this, could you explain?!?
If you truly have this Haldol works great for it
Me googling why I feel like I’m dreaming/not real:
I also feel very photophobic when i experience this
I’ve had it for 10 months don’t know what to do or how to get rid of it I just live with it someone help me
Try to get some anxiety meds and talk to your doctor don’t be scared it’s truly nothing to be frightened off at all I’ve suffered with it over 25 years it’s basically extreme anxiety that brings it on
I appreciate the info on this video but the imaging is a little bizarre and intense.
Very limited information presented here and far too much about medication despite the author acknowledging there is no evidence for its use. Learning grounding strategies and understanding your triggers for this type of dissociation is effective, empowering and Free and has no side effects. Please do not use medication if you experience depersonslisation as your primary difficulty - it is liable to be ineffective and quite likely to make things worse for you
So what do i suggest for someone who has struggled with it for 22 years 24/7 and grounding has never even slightly helped? Idk what triggers i would have when its a constant
So what do you do?
What kind of grounding techniques do you recommend?
What really helped me with DP/DR was a heroic dose of mushrooms. It's like I became the center of the universe and made me realize what occurred. I felt enlightened, and I would recommend this for anyone struggling with DP/DR
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heroic dose could also make it worse since u lose touch with reality
and don’t forget psychdelics have the worst comedowns ever for the majority of people
Sadly, most mental treatments don't work well at all.
It feels like there is only ONE way out. Take that as you will.
It sounds like your brain is just overwhelmed on the subconscious level and your consciousness is trying to fight that weird floaty dreamlike state to assure survival, yet that itself makes you feel like the only answer is death. Otherwise there is nothing left to do but live on and continue to discover what the next day brings. Its what everyone else does just on a less conscious level and as bizarre as this seems its just the way animals work, yet some who are over or under evolved for their purpose and show mutation are the ones who suffer unfortunately. Its the masses vs us. I am not derealizing, I just have an interest in psychology and that weirdly enough puts me in the backseat of my own thoughts and I can look objectively. I also have adhd and bipolar.
how are you doing now?
I am 12 what should I do
What is it?
Can't a doctor prescribe to one just some communication?
In my personal experience, there is nothing that can be done to help anyone, if you exclude the option of getting turned into a drooling zombie.
Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, trauma, no help at all.
My last Psychologist told me I should kill myself, so I stopped going to see her after that.
Well thats insane. Are you sure it was an actual psychologist?
Do mushrooms work?
i mean if u microdose them then prob maybe
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What is that
I think some people just need a real hobby.
Psychiatrist, she is good, others STAY AWAY !!! BENXO !!!!! HELL NOOOOO
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What is it?