Hello,
I was diagnosed by my psychiatrist with depersonalization-derealisation syndrome about 5 months ago, but I've been suffering much longer than that. It's gotten very severe and has lead me to cope by means of cutting, alcohol, and generally staying indoors. My psychiatrist has had me on different medications, right now I am on prozac and cymbalta. The medications has helped any anxiety I had, I am never really nervous anymore nor feel any anxiety. However, my DPD is still in full swing and is as debilitating as normal. At least for me, anxiety does not seem to be the trigger for it. I am relatively calm and relaxed on the meds, but still find myself dissociating in a wide variety of situations.
I guess my question/point of discussion is what are the other causes of DPD besides anxiety? (I should also say that I've never had any traumatic events, nor taken any drugs which could have caused the symptoms) My psychiatrist is trying to keep me hopeful with these anti-depressants(or whatever they're called) but the DPD is so painful even without anxiety. What would the next step be? I feel like there is so much about this disease that is undiscovered and thus untreatable. But I don't want to go on like this ya know?
I was diagnosed by my psychiatrist with depersonalization-derealisation syndrome about 5 months ago, but I've been suffering much longer than that. It's gotten very severe and has lead me to cope by means of cutting, alcohol, and generally staying indoors. My psychiatrist has had me on different medications, right now I am on prozac and cymbalta. The medications has helped any anxiety I had, I am never really nervous anymore nor feel any anxiety. However, my DPD is still in full swing and is as debilitating as normal. At least for me, anxiety does not seem to be the trigger for it. I am relatively calm and relaxed on the meds, but still find myself dissociating in a wide variety of situations.
I guess my question/point of discussion is what are the other causes of DPD besides anxiety? (I should also say that I've never had any traumatic events, nor taken any drugs which could have caused the symptoms) My psychiatrist is trying to keep me hopeful with these anti-depressants(or whatever they're called) but the DPD is so painful even without anxiety. What would the next step be? I feel like there is so much about this disease that is undiscovered and thus untreatable. But I don't want to go on like this ya know?