[Keara]

Can it go away on its own?

 

[eddy1886]

Yes....

And when it does you must learn to start taking better care of yourself...Manage stress levels better...Eat better..take some exercise..And STAY AWAY from all illegal drugs like weed etc....Or else you will end up right back where you started...

Lots of people recover naturally over time but unfortunately start doing the things again that got them into the DP mess in the first place..

You need to take DP as a warning sign that you were not taking proper care of yourself either mentally or physically...

Alot of good can actually come from this believe it or not...

Remember everybody is different and will recover in different ways and over different time frames...

Some need meds, Some dont, Some find diet works, Some find exercise works, Some find supplements work, Some recover fully AND Some like me learn to live with it long term as a managed condition...Its totally an individual thing as to what works....Even time and just sitting with it can get rid of it...

As you can see the general theme for recovery is much better physical and mental self care...

You WILL be ok...Its not permanent....Even though it often feels like it is....

I must also add that if you try a medicine and you find it works or helps STICK WITH IT..Too many people crash and burn because they literally thought they were doing so well that they could just cut the medicine out completely...They usually end up in a bad away again pretty soon...The medicine was doing more for them than they actually realised...

The only medicine I do NOT recommend people start taking regularly is ANY BENZO....Benzos are STRICTLY a short term thing...Simply because tolerance builds quickly and you will end up needing more of it more often to get the same results....Thats a very BAD place to end up with any medicine....And will make everything so much worse in the long term...

 

[Phantasm]

I think that lots of people experience these things at some point in life to some degree, and it is a temporary state for most people that does just go away on its own. It depends on their life experiences and how deeply they have been affected by them. One person may have more obstacles than another depending on their background.

For many people the difference is one of how fixated they become on the symptoms. When we become obsessive about DP we can inadvertently be reinforcing it. By worrying about it all the time we can actually be practicing it, like a bad habit, and thoughts are habitual. This is why people commonly talk about doing everything you can to focus on anything else but DP.

It can be hard not to think about something though! Fortunately, just as old habits were established through repetition, we can actively overwrite them with new ones. We can replace old destructive thinking patterns with new adaptive ones. We have more control than we realize. One way is to keep reinforcing the thought of freedom from all of these symptoms, as though you are already recovered. This acts as instructions to your mind. This is the opposite of always dwelling on and reinforcing them. Try it for a few weeks and see if it helps

 

[eddy1886]

I think that lots of people experience these things at some point in life to some degree, and it is a temporary state for most people that does just go away on its own. It depends on their life experiences and how deeply they have been affected by them. One person may have more obstacles than another depending on their background.

For many people the difference is one of how fixated they become on the symptoms. When we become obsessive about DP we can inadvertently be reinforcing it. By worrying about it all the time we can actually be practicing it, like a bad habit, and thoughts are habitual. This is why people commonly talk about doing everything you can to focus on anything else but DP.

It can be hard not to think about something though! Fortunately, just as old habits were established through repetition, we can actively overwrite them with new ones. We can replace old destructive thinking patterns with new adaptive ones. We have more control than we realize. One way is to keep reinforcing the thought of freedom from all of these symptoms, as though you are already recovered. This acts as instructions to your mind. This is the opposite of always dwelling on and reinforcing them. Try it for a few weeks and see if it helps

I agree totally...

But sometimes some of us need a little help in the form of meds to allow us to get to that place were we can start retraining our minds....Lets face it the obsessional side of DP is probably the hardest thing to break....Its the biggest problem with a mental health condition like this...We get no break from it...Even when we are sleeping its there tormenting us....If we can even manage to sleep...

Its such a mind boggling condition....Its also a very very persistent ,dominating, controlling, disturbing condition even at the best of times...

Alot of the time when we are feeling its full force we are literally white knuckling it and hanging on for dear life....Because nothing seems to give us any relief...

My heart goes out to all the people on here who are in the full throws of chronic DP right now...Its an existence not living...

I just know we can all improve and feel better in time...So dont give up guys...I know we all can improve because I have been were all you guys have been at various stages of my life and have always come out the far side....

 

[PerfectFifth]

Absolutely. I don't know how it'd go away if not on its own. As far as I know, there is no agreed upon cure or much of any known cure at all. It's not at all verified what causes this. All there is is speculation. It could even be that DP/DR is not its own thing but merely a symptom of something else, at least in some cases.