[GroupHug]

I've heard a few accounts of people who have gotten over DP, only to have it reoccur a few months or years later. I know recovery can be a bumpy road when you're first starting to make progress, and it's pretty common to initially have DP ebb and flow and to have minutes/hours/days of clarity only to get depersonalized again, but what about those who lived months/years of a DP free existence only to relapse?

I was actually DP free for about a week, which I attribute mostly to "passing through the panic" and not fighting or being disturbed by intrusive thoughts, but letting them run their course...but a stressful situation caused my brain to feel "burnt out" again, not really freaking out about intrusive thoughts of philosophical rumination. We're all going to encounter good amounts of stress and anxiety at some points in our lives...what's to stop our brains from powering down again?

I'm not frightened by DP anymore or worried I'll never recover. I'm not concerned about intrusive thoughts or give too much weight to negative obsessional thinking, and I can manage life with it somewhat, but it does get in the way of me reaching my full potential, both emotionally and intellectually, and makes life less enjoyable. I don't want to have to "recharge my batteries" for the rest of my life.

 

[tnasty2]

When your sense of self is totally healed which will take a long time, you will then not experience dp. If you are doing things correctly within your life, paying attention to your emotional needs and such, there will be no symptoms of detachment. In theory yes we are more susceptible but when you truly understand why your feeling the way you are and begin to make improvements then you can fully recover without relapsing.

 

[mipmunk40]

I think if you have a predisposition to it, you can be highly likely to get it again, unless you deal with the issues beforehand to stop it before it happens. I have lost count the amount of episodes I have had in the last 18 years......