[Guest]

Greetings,

It has been some time since I have visited this board. I used to be a regular a couple years ago, but since my recovery I felt it better to stay away for a while.

Now a college student, I am giving a presentation on DP/DR for my Psychology class. I need some good books to reference material from. I realize the web is saturated with information, but our professor would like a book reference as well. I found a book called "Stranger in the Mirror" at my local library. Has anyone read this book and is it worth the read?

I am also doing research on DP/DR in children and teens. Any information would be most useful, web or text.

Blessings . . .

Ravenstone

 

[gem]

Hi Ravenstone, I read this book and my personal opinion on it was that I did not find it that good. It really did not capture what it is like to live with dp/dr and I found it focused more on multiple personality disorder which is not what dp/dr is. This is my own view. I am happy for you that you are doing well, that is great.

gem.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the input Gem.

Did you know that disassociative disorders were once considered multiple personality disorders? The doctors pulled them out of that category when they realized the different flavors for lack of better words.

Ravenstone

 

[Guest]

I'm with gem on this one. The book didn't really deal with what I feel I'm going through.
Also, ditto on her opinion that you are calling yourself "recovered". Very, very pleased for you.......

 

[Guest]

I'm sure you could use some good quotes from Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, or S?ren Kierkegaard. This is a psychology course, not a philosophy course though...too bad.

 

[Guest]

I stole this

Kierkegaard held that it is spiritually crucial to recognize that one experiences not only a fear of specific objects but also a feeling of general apprehension, which he called dread. He interpreted it as God's way of calling each individual to make a commitment to a personally valid way of life. The word anxiety (German Angst) has a similarly crucial role in the work of the 20th-century German philosopher Martin Heidegger; anxiety leads to the individual's confrontation with nothingness and with the impossibility of finding ultimate justification for the choices he or she must make. In the philosophy of Sartre, the word nausea is used for the individual's recognition of the pure contingency of the universe, and the word anguish is used for the recognition of the total freedom of choice that confronts the individual at every moment.

 

[dakotajo]

Hi Ravenstone,

Im curious what you feel caused your recovery? Ive been around here for a while and I remember when you left. From what I remember, didnt you find a good doctor who got you off all the psychiatric drugs you were on? If Im correct, did this help you to recover?

Joe

 

[Guest]

The way I remember it, Ravenstone was diagnosed with sleep apnea, and once that was under control his DP lifted.