[Alesss]

Good evening everyone, I hope you can help me feel less alone, and to understand if what I am feeling is also felt by any of you. I will try to explain myself as well as possible, because I am Italian. I started suffering from DP about two months ago, after a year of high stress, on the evening of my birthday with an anxiety attack I started to feel empty immediately afterwards, as if my body was floating in the void, the two / three weeks following were very intense, the symptoms I had were:
- not feeling myself and in my body
-not being familiar with my family and my boyfriend
-total absence of memory
-not recognizing myself in the mirror -
mental confusion

• sense compression at the head
• double vision.

- distorted perceptions, for example: I am sitting in the kitchen but it is as if I felt in another room, I did not feel present.
After these very intense weeks some symptoms have started to subside, for example I no longer feel unknown to my parents and my boyfriend but what I have left is the perception of not feeling myself, I speak and do everything as I always have, but not I still feel myself. she looked at me in the mirror and I don't feel familiar to myself. All this causes me a lot of sadness because I am afraid that this will never pass again. is there anyone who has had the same things? how do you know when you are "healing"? thanks to who will answer me! a greeting!!!

 

[35467]

I am parly Italien too with family in Marche but live in Denmark as my mother is danish.
You have symptoms of depersonalization and derealization and it has been for a very short periode. You have to have for much longer to say it is the disorder. You describe your symptoms as fluctuating and partly secondary to high levels of stress. That alone will speak against depersonalization disorder. As it has been so recent speaks for a very good prognosis. You have to stop going into a dialogue with these symptoms and try to control them,- you can't. It is a defensive mechanism when the nervous system can't make a fight and flight response (sympathetic nervous system) is immobilizes and shorts down for the outside world (parasympathetic response). It is a similar response you see in animals when the "play" dead to danger. By being afraid and try to fright it you in reality feeds the respons to stay. The best you can do is to accept it for a period and give it time it takes to go away. Detract yourself from the symptom and don't go into a conversation with them to see if they are there,- they likely will be due to the constant interaction with them. This site is based on a psychological approach to anxiety and also adresses symptoms of depersonalization and how to deal with them. There is also 2.books to the site but I think the information there might be sufficient to you.

Help with Depersonalisation and Derealisation | Anxietynomore

 

[Alesss]

I am parly Italien too with family in Marche but live in Denmark as my mother is danish.
You have symptoms of depersonalization and derealization and it has been for a very short periode. You have to have for much longer to say it is the disorder. You describe your symptoms as fluctuating and partly secondary to high levels of stress. That alone will speak against depersonalization disorder. As it has been so recent speaks for a very good prognosis. You have to stop going into a dialogue with these symptoms and try to control them,- you can't. It is a defensive mechanism when the nervous system can't make a fight and flight response (sympathetic nervous system) is immobilizes and shorts down for the outside world (parasympathetic response). It is a similar response you see in animals when the "play" dead to danger. By being afraid and try to fright it you in reality feeds the respons to stay. The best you can do is to accept it for a period and give it time it takes to go away. Detract yourself from the symptom and don't go into a conversation with them to see if they are there,- they likely will be due to the constant interaction with them. This site is based on a psychological approach to anxiety and also adresses symptoms of depersonalization and how to deal with them. There is also 2.books to the site but I think the information there might be sufficient to you.

Help with Depersonalisation and Derealisation | Anxietynomore

Hi Mayer-gross, i sincerely thank you for taking the time and letting me read this really enlightening link. in Italy there is very little talk about it, thank you very much!

 

[melissaaylott]

Good evening everyone, I hope you can help me feel less alone, and to understand if what I am feeling is also felt by any of you. I will try to explain myself as well as possible, because I am Italian. I started suffering from DP about two months ago, after a year of high stress, on the evening of my birthday with an anxiety attack I started to feel empty immediately afterwards, as if my body was floating in the void, the two / three weeks following were very intense, the symptoms I had were:
- not feeling myself and in my body
-not being familiar with my family and my boyfriend
-total absence of memory
-not recognizing myself in the mirror -
mental confusion

• sense compression at the head
• double vision.

- distorted perceptions, for example: I am sitting in the kitchen but it is as if I felt in another room, I did not feel present.
After these very intense weeks some symptoms have started to subside, for example I no longer feel unknown to my parents and my boyfriend but what I have left is the perception of not feeling myself, I speak and do everything as I always have, but not I still feel myself. she looked at me in the mirror and I don't feel familiar to myself. All this causes me a lot of sadness because I am afraid that this will never pass again. is there anyone who has had the same things? how do you know when you are "healing"? thanks to who will answer me! a greeting!!!

 

[melissaaylott]

Good evening everyone, I hope you can help me feel less alone, and to understand if what I am feeling is also felt by any of you. I will try to explain myself as well as possible, because I am Italian. I started suffering from DP about two months ago, after a year of high stress, on the evening of my birthday with an anxiety attack I started to feel empty immediately afterwards, as if my body was floating in the void, the two / three weeks following were very intense, the symptoms I had were:
- not feeling myself and in my body
-not being familiar with my family and my boyfriend
-total absence of memory
-not recognizing myself in the mirror -
mental confusion

• sense compression at the head
• double vision.

- distorted perceptions, for example: I am sitting in the kitchen but it is as if I felt in another room, I did not feel present.
After these very intense weeks some symptoms have started to subside, for example I no longer feel unknown to my parents and my boyfriend but what I have left is the perception of not feeling myself, I speak and do everything as I always have, but not I still feel myself. she looked at me in the mirror and I don't feel familiar to myself. All this causes me a lot of sadness because I am afraid that this will never pass again. is there anyone who has had the same things? how do you know when you are "healing"? thanks to who will answer me! a greeting!!!

Hi Alesss. I’ve experienced DPD for 6 years. I had a very similar experience… it starting after a panic attack. I can try my best to give advice but more than anything I think it’s important to know that you’re not alone in this and others have felt this way! I find sometimes that I wake up and just have a worse DPD day and others I’ll feel ok. On the worst days I just try to distract myself. I live at Uni so I always ask one of my flatmates if we can do something e.g. go to town, shop, gym, or a walk, just to take my mind off of it. Exercise is a life saver for me! And just know that it’s going to get better! Like I said, I’m still not cured so can’t give too much advice but just know that you’re not alone. X

 

[Alesss]

Hi Alesss. I’ve experienced DPD for 6 years. I had a very similar experience… it starting after a panic attack. I can try my best to give advice but more than anything I think it’s important to know that you’re not alone in this and others have felt this way! I find sometimes that I wake up and just have a worse DPD day and others I’ll feel ok. On the worst days I just try to distract myself. I live at Uni so I always ask one of my flatmates if we can do something e.g. go to town, shop, gym, or a walk, just to take my mind off of it. Exercise is a life saver for me! And just know that it’s going to get better! Like I said, I’m still not cured so can’t give too much advice but just know that you’re not alone. X

thank you so much Melissaaylott for your answer, sometimes I really feel like I'm losing my person, my knowledge. and I'm always afraid of having some serious neurological disease. I am happy that there is this opportunity to confront each other. a greeting