I am a new member just joined.
My onset of dp was 17 years ago. I am now 41. All along I was convinced I would get better , and gradually I have been. The last half of it has been fine really, I still feel everything is unreal etc etc but I am much more okay - less terrified about it. Getting in touch with buried extreme feelings has been really important. My onset wasn't drug induced, I had a horrendously abusive childhood including sexual/incest. The onset was caused by intense stress and horror - homelessness and believing my partner was smoking himself to death... it has been a total thing, all the time - not in and out of it.
My onset of dp was 17 years ago. I am now 41. All along I was convinced I would get better , and gradually I have been. The last half of it has been fine really, I still feel everything is unreal etc etc but I am much more okay - less terrified about it. Getting in touch with buried extreme feelings has been really important. My onset wasn't drug induced, I had a horrendously abusive childhood including sexual/incest. The onset was caused by intense stress and horror - homelessness and believing my partner was smoking himself to death... it has been a total thing, all the time - not in and out of it.
