[optimusrhyme]

I got my DP/DR from weed, i've had it 24/7 has anyone here gotten better from it?

 

[Guest]

I got it from weed and I've gotten "better" from it over the year but not fully recovered :x

 

[bat]

mine came on through drug use and I'm a comfortable 95% ok these days

 

[lyssy]

I also got my from weed and have had it since oct but have improved significantly and feel almost normal again.

 

[Depersonalized]

Same here. I think marijuana is a gateway not to the other drugs but to DP, all those who want to legalize it should consider that.

 

[Guest]

got mine from a bad acid trip and mary jane, still very foggy and scared a lot of the time but only recently have I discovered this site. annyone elses dp from lsd, if so I could realy use some support. i'll try to maintain hopeful and positive till then.

 

[Guest]

this guy named ziggomatic, he used to come around here and he got it from LSD too.

 

[falling_free]

I got my anxiety dp/dr sympons from weed, thankfully over the last year I have improved a lot but I still tend to isolate myself more than I did prior to develping dp/dr.

But I have certainlly got better, just a case of lowering my anxiety

a day at a time

A think that ziggomatic's acid induced dp/dr got better, I think his last post was something about feeling his dp/dr had gone, but Im not sure as I don't know about acid induced dp/dr hppd etc etc as I have never taken acid, but i would imagine that the recoevery is simliar to weed induced since as far as I know acid induced dp/dr is simliar if not the same as weed induced apart from maybe hppd but again I have no first hand experience so don't know.

 

[optimusrhyme]

You see I have had mine 24/7 for almost 3 years now, do you think there is still a chance to get rid of the symptoms?

 

[Guest]

I got it from herb too. It is 24/7 but i can force normal feelings... it just doesnt feel natural. anyone else feel this way? like the feeling of being "emotionally lazy?"

 

[falling_free]

^^ Yes I know what you mean about being emotioneely lazy, as I am deciding to spend less time around people for the last two weeks and at the moment don't feek like seeing that many people or being overly social, recently I just like being on my own.

 

[Guest]

same here i have no wanting to go out and have fun i just like stayin in my room surfin the net and playin ps2 till maybe summer

 

[falling_free]

yeh not much point going out anyway in the UK ,always snowing but but the snow is crap , now I would'nt mind if the snow sticked so I could do some sledging or snowball fights etc etc but the snow stays around and looks really heavy for about 4 hours then is completly gone, Im always like WTF every morning as I keep up waking up to snow only to find that the snow is completly cleared mere hours later.

Iv'e always liked staying in playing computer games a lot of the time any way , cos I can lose my self in another world instead of being in a world where I have the spectre of dp to live with every day.

summer time should be good though, hopefully I can get to some festival or other though I doubt i'll be able to get glastonbery tickets, still a glastobery virgin

 

[Guest]

yea, it helps knowing that im not the only one that likes hiding in my cave at my desk with my pc n' tv... emotional laziness is what i think started this, then it turned into the wierd introverted thoughts and obsessive self-analysis. whats weird is i went all the way through school normal with alot of friends, going to partying n such. ive been thinking lately it was drug induced (weed and alittle experimenting with other substances). how ironic i did drugs for that "fun" numb :shock: feeling... and now that i always have that feeling the thing i want most is to get some emotion back.

 

[stickdude]

Iv'e always liked staying in playing computer games a lot of the time any way , cos I can lose my self in another world instead of being in a world where I have the spectre of dp to live with every day.

true. surfing the net and playing games a lot does that to me too. playing some counter-strike helps take away some thoughts 8)

and yea i like chilling alone mostly now. i'm not sure when i'm more introverted, being alone or outside.

 

[Martinelv]

In answer to the original question - definately YES. I am a case in point. Not only did I recover once, I recovered twice !!! First time around was from weed, which took me about a year for the DR to fade away. Second time was from loads of 'e', which again took about a year to fade away. In my case, it was the panic following drug overload that brought on my DR, definately.

Without dashing the hopes of non-drug DP'ers, it seems to me that the prognosis for drug-induced DP is better than other causes...basically because it's just a temporary chemical cock-up in your brain, and not some other psychological trauma which may be more difficult to pin down and treat.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Martin, you always know how to make me feel better
So using real opiates instead of ideas as opiates is actually better? Darn it with my childhood psychological traumas!

 

[optimusrhyme]

In answer to the original question - definately YES. I am a case in point. Not only did I recover once, I recovered twice !!! First time around was from weed, which took me about a year for the DR to fade away. Second time was from loads of 'e', which again took about a year to fade away. In my case, it was the panic following drug overload that brought on my DR, definately.

Without dashing the hopes of non-drug DP'ers, it seems to me that the prognosis for drug-induced DP is better than other causes...basically because it's just a temporary chemical cock-up in your brain, and not some other psychological trauma which may be more difficult to pin down and treat.

I know but almost 3 years of DP/DR 24/7, with no relief? Im not sure if i still have a chance...

 

[stickdude]

was smoking weed from summer 2002-may 2003, when i started getting anxiety and panic attacks. i was pretty much better, i think, by early 2004, because i was going to school and was thinking less. then i took ecstasy summer 2004. it went good but at the end, i had a bad panic attack and thought i had brain damage because i went to use the bathroom and had a big headrush and couldn't hear anything for about 10 seconds after i used to. i've had dp/dr/ocd thinking/anxiety since then and keep thinking i have brain damage. me thinking i have brain damage from it i think is what's making my dp and anxiety hold on to me longer. since the ecstasy incident, smoking weed would make me nervous as hell and increase dp & anxiety. i think if i lay off the weed and get this idea that i haven't got brain damage from ecstasy off, i will be on the road to recovery

 

[Martinelv]

Privateer - you know I didn't mean it like that. Would you prefer it if I told you that everyone here was doomed to a life of total misery ?

All I was trying to point out is that, perhaps, the prognosis for recovery 'might' be 'simpler' for drug-induced DP peeps, because of the nature of the onset of their condition. But who know's, maybe the drug abuse uncovered some deep lying trauma which the person didn't know about ?

The difficulty with recovery, seems to me anyway, (and this is going to seem blindingly obvious), to find your own particular 'mindset' (for wont of a better word) that enables you to crush the DP state. It really is as simple as that, but as difficult as that too. With some people it might take years, others, weeks. No one persons route to recovery is the same, which is why this beast is so difficult.