Hey folks, long time (decades) DP/DR sufferer and lurker here. I am at my wits' end with my current regimen, even though it's the "best" I've found in my 27 years of TR DP/DR, Depression, OCD, Anxiety. In a nutshell, my compulsive mental checking (the OCD) often triggers a Spike (i.e. a...

Hi everyone, I am a 16 year old student and I live in Italy. Unfortunately I too, like many of you, got DPDR from weed. But now I'll tell you my story better. I have always been a sociable girl, full of friends, and with a very quiet life (never had problems with family or anything like...

Hey so 5 weeks ago I smoked weed ( I have smoked weed before) but this time was way more traumatizing. I remember suddenly my vision was on low FPS like it was milliseconds behind what I was actually seeing. Then I had a panick attack. I started feeling like Im loosing touch with reality. Like...

Hello, My DPDR started like 6 years ago, I had a lot of panic attacks/anxiety. I was also very obsessed with getting better. And it made it more difficult to recover at that time. I've not been paying so much attention to it anymore like I used to do. Also I do not have any panic attacks...

Hello everyone, I'm hoping I can connect with someone dealing with the same situation. After I watched Harris Harrington's dpdr program a few years back everything he said clicked with me. I lived half of my life pretending that my family was normal until I realized it was dysfunctional and...

I keep having extremely existential thoughts like the following: - I think about how the universe can even exist - I think about how weird it is we're living on a rock in space - I think about how it's weird we exist and are conscious - I get scared of the idea of eternity - I've also been...

Hello! This is Khulan from Mongolia. I'm 20 years old. I started getting short episodes or moments of depersonalization [for about 5 seconds every time] since I was in elementary school. I would get confused and ask other people if they felt what I felt, too. Since I was a child, people didn't...

I've been suffering from dpdr for 3 years now, and most of this time my symptoms were pretty straightforward. Feeling distant from people, world looked weird, cognitive difficulties, emotional numbness etc... Lately though I'm in a confused state that borders delirium. I cannot explain what it...

Hello this is my first post so I'll just get right into it I've had constant 24/7 derealisation since I had a panic attack two months ago. Not sure what to do. I did some TRE exercises last week which really reconnected me to myself for a couple of days. I felt connected to my environment too...

As the title says, after 5 years of being DPDR free it has come back. I'm really annoyed and upset that I'm in this mental state again. I can live with most of the awful feeling for the most part, but what is keeping me feeling like I'm going nuts or that I'll never be better is the following...

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I've visited this wonderful forum. long story short I was diagnosed with dpdr and cptsd about 2 years ago, and since then with no improvement the mere mention of dpdr makes me dissociate, as I'm writing this now, I start to feel detached, I can't really...

Hey guys, I want to remind you all that DPDR is absolutely, completely curable. It'll involve rejecting your scary thoughts in ways you've never been brave enough to do before, but it is completely worth it. I'm a girl in my 20s... this condition once dominated my entire life, but I've been...

Hi, A long time sufferer here, just looking for some help as DP/DR is ruining my life basically. Just looking for medication suggestions as well as things like mindfulness or mild exercise (have severe chronic pain so can't do much). Also just wanted to say that IBS symptoms largely govern my...

Hi. My name is Sandra. I have had chronic DPDR for almost 8 yrs now. I suffered in silence up until April of last year. I didn't know what this was.. I didn't know what I was experiencing. I thought I was going crazy and therefore didn't seek help sooner. Keeping this to myself has been...

Hey all, I am 27 year old and have struggled with DPDR (especially derealization) for over two years now. In this period of time I have suffered a LOT, but I have also learned a lot and am slowly getting out of the hole that is DPDR. Hopefully forever. In this time I used these forums a lot to...

hi all of you, thanks for reading this. i'm hoping it will help you. i remember the day it hit me like it was yesterday. it felt like i had fallen out of the world from one instant to another. suddenly, i was shit-scared of myself, of everything, of every second of my own existence. everything...

I've tried harris harringtons program, i've done santos barrios exercises, I've read complex ptsd from surviving to thriving, and many other books but I still deal with Dpdr, yes my emotions slowly come back at times but i still feel like there is a glass inf front of my eyes, one of my...

'I have not completely recovered from DPDR, i still suffer from DR but i am in much better place compared to where i was two months ago.' hey guys, i am from India and i am 23 years old.if u are reading this i know that u are in a lot of pain right now,u are completely shattered and u think...

Hello! My name is Alex and I am 21 years old. I woud like to share my dpdr experience. I've recently been diagnosed with this condition called Derealization and Depersonalization and I am going through some really difficult times at the moment. I realized that I suffer from this for over 5 to...

so i've been dealing with dpdr for about 5 years, 24/7, and yesterday my doctor told me he thinks my dpdr could eventually turn into psychosis or schizophrenia. that, of course, worried me. but until a few months ago (when i started seeing this doctor) he didn't know anything about dpdr. my...