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  1. Discussion
    About 6 months ago, I recovered from OCD that I’d been suffering from since being a little kid (I turned 18 a few months ago). Ever since then, I’ve felt like a complete stranger to myself and the world around me. I wish there were some way, somehow, to understand the meaning of my experiences -...
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    Hello, is this still derealization? I noticed something different, like having a constant feeling of jamais vu-meaning-never-seen. I read on the internet: This also seems to be related to research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which looked at the effect of compulsive staring into...
  3. Discussion
    Hey yall. So im just going to give a summary of my life and all the things that have led me into this state, and am more than open to any advice or tips. So I had never experienced dpdr until I was 16 when I had smoked k2, and I had no idea what it was at the time but i just said I was "out of...
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    i am here once again i developed this huge fear of losing control a few weeks ago, but its switching to questioning if i could kill someone. I am a very sensitive person, I feel bad when i kill a fly, literally. I have had scary thoughts of killing someone when ive seen some murder case on the...
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  5. Discussion
    It's really hard for me to put my inner experiences into words but I'll try ... When depersonalization first kicked in I felt like my chest went blank and empty from one second to another, like my soul was ripped out or something. My brain also gradually developed OCD symptoms solely to ease...
  6. Discussion
    Hi, I think I've accidentally, in my efforts to control and understand DP, created a horrible habit in my brain. That now is kind of ruining me, worse than my original symtoms. In the beginning, even though my symtoms were scary, I found ways to cope and sooth them. It could be affirmations...
  7. Treatment Options
    Hi! I am 29 yo guy. I have DDNOS and OCD. I take Escitalopram (Lexapro) 20 mg in the morning, Lamotrigine (Lamictal) 2 x 100 mg (morning and night), Clonazepam (Klonopin) 2 x 0.25 mg (morning and night) and Aripiprazole 2 mg in the morning. I have recurrent episodes of DP that I don’t know how...
  8. Discussion
    This is probably going to be long and very rambling, but please bear with me. Some of this is copied from a post on reddit by what feels like the only other person out there experiencing what I'm experiencing. They stopped posting a while ago though, which feels foreboding. Starting about two...
  9. Treatment Options
    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...
  10. Discussion
    Hey everyone, First of all good luck, and this will pass, don't worry obsessively about it ! I was looking for advices for what is left of my DPDR, it used to be really bad, and most of it went away. I'm just now stuck with some kind of OCD-like symptoms : whenever I feel strange, I get into...
  11. Introduce Yourself
    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...
  12. Introduce Yourself
    Hey guys I'm new here to dpselfhelp, I guess i'll just lay it out all on the table so i seem more transparent. First. My father became ill of cancer in January of 2018, after a long and hard fought battle he passed away in August of 2019. I was unbelievably close to my dad as he was my best...
  13. Discussion
    i know the title is super long but this is something that has really been bothering me for a week or so now. i just feel like nothing is real and my life is just a movie playing on a screen and im not in my body and i'm just floating somewhere alone in space. it feels like nothing i say or think...
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    it's been a while, hasn't it? my first post here was almost a year ago, and my last post was in october?? i believe anyway- so for a while i thought i was getting better. january-early april were my best months regarding this disorder. i actually thought i was getting better. i thought wrong...
  15. Discussion
    hi! it's been a while, hasn't it? the uh, reason for that was because i thought i was doing better- which i was, in a sense. I stopped having anxiety attacks and stuff (thought it's mostly because i had them so much i became emotionally repressed), and i was just, generally happier i guess...
  16. Discussion
    Okay...so recently I scrolled through some topics on this site...then I read this disscusion .... read the first comment about schizo ocd... https://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/index.php?/topic/42867-why-anxiety-is-not-related-to-schizophrenia/?fromsearch=1 This sums up pretty good what I think I...
  17. Discussion
    Okay since I have DP/DR (because of a panik attake) I became obsessed with my feelings and thoughts... I'm so scared that I (will) develope(d) schizophrenia (what if I'm in prodome phase??) or a psychosis?? I mean there's a chance that I "just" have anxiety + OCD (i have a history of anxiety and...
  18. Discussion
    hey guys, I’m new to this site. two years ago I experienced derealization, I felt I was just dropped down in this earth, everything, I mean EVERYTHING terrified me, from my on conscious to literally living. I didn’t know what to do. eventually I got over it, I think Injust accepted the feeling...
  19. Discussion
    My Recovery Story First, let me say that the reason you'll see more bleak stories and comments than positive ones is that once you've recovered, you're back to living your life and you've moved past it, so generally speaking you don't feel like taking the time to revisit and write about your...
  20. Recovery Stories
    Hi! So I am a 20 year old female, and I recently started having existential thoughts + DP/DR last month. I remember what triggered it, I was watching a video of WWYD (The TV show) and in it, they discussed the amount of people in America with alzheimers and how serious of an issue it is. I...
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