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How did you get dp/dr?​

Always had dp/dr.	6	8.11%
Don't know how I got it.	22	29.73%
Got it from pot.	10	13.51%
Got it from pot and acid (LSD)	5	6.76%
Got it from doing way to many drugs.	5	6.76%
Got it from doing every drug known!	0	0.00%
Got it from a combination of drugs and stress/fear/depression	25	33.78%
Got it from Every drug known and stress/fear/depression	1	1.35%

 

[LOSTONE]

Has dp/dr always been their or did you get it from a tremendous amount of drugs?

I got it from all kinds of drugs, extreme anxiety, extreme depression and extream anger all at one time.

 

[blackwinded]

I think i got it from schizophrenia...just part of the condition i guess. It may also have to do with the extream depression and anxiety i've had. But it seems to be more a part of my schizophrenia, because it's a lot less when my schiz symptoms are a lot less.

I don't mean to be critical or anything, but maybe you should have a few more options in your poll, like "I got it from depression/stress/anxiety"
and "other"

8)

-Becka

 

[Guest]

Im pretty sure i got it from a bad panic attack during a high dose mushroom trip.

However since then its been getting worse... probably due to stress of moving to college and stuff like that

 

[falling_free]

I got my dp from pot, no doubt in my mind.

I was kind of exsitenial before though but weed blew things way out of propotion, you know expanded my current anxieties to stupid levels.

 

[Luka]

There're alot of drug-related answers. I never did drugs, I was out of control without them! I got DP/DR from child abuse.

 

[jill10]

Mine was from a brain injury I sustained from falling down a metal staircase while visiting a mate.

on the MRI it showed 3 areas of my brain that had been badly damaged the visual cortex parietal lobe temperol lobe.

I have depersonalisation of the hands and feet but derealisation all the time which makes me very homesick, although I am home. I keep getting the feeling that I am now in a parallel universe similar to my own but I know this is not right. I feel that people that know me only think i am who they think i am but i feel as if i am an imposter and not the jill they knew before. I am the other jill from the other universe.

It is just a feeling, but it is with me every day and it drives me crazy. Even when I want to go for a bath, I am worried as I alwways feel as if i am not in the place i see around me, I could be out in the street for all my feelings are telling me.
The brain is a complex organ.......all the best ....jill

 

[Imagine]

My timeline is a life of:

Panic Disorder>Anxiety Disorder> Generalised Anxiety Disorder> Depression> Depersonalization> Derealiaztion.

I made the fatal mistake of smoking hash after I had already suffered DP/DR.

Also the fatal mistake of a huge drinking binge.

 

[LOSTONE]

Imagine is that the crack squirrel you have on your avatar?
He is pretty funny.

Jill I feel the same as you do. I feel like I am an alien that has taken over my body but the person I used to be is gone and I only have his memories now. If I was an alien that would be cool, but the terrible thig is that I don't know what the hell I am. All I know is that I am not the same person I used to be, but who am I?

Just a complete loser and failure I guess. A disgusting thing of the earth like the Nephilim of old.

 

[Guest]

I got dp from extremely high anxiety/fear. I just have so much going on in my life and other things....dp is just taking over.

 

[namnlavs]

my psychiatrist told me that i got dp/dr because of emotional deprivation in early childhood. that i hid myself already then and never developed a clear and integrated identity.
i don't agree fully with that. wasn't abused or traumatised in any other way. mobbed and ignored by all around me, yes. so to say from the first day in the kindergarten, but it was because i already was weird and different.
had some kind of seizures as a child too. i guess it was during one of them i firstly realized that i was watching myself outside.

 

[ed]

I've never taken illegal substances.

I had a head injury aged 9.

I had DP/DR aged 11 for a few moments at a time of stress.

Then at 17 for a few moments at a time of stress.

At age 19 I got DP/DR and depression through stress.

I recovered from the depression but DP/DR became continuous at the age of 24.

I have strong suspicions that the head injury gave me a tendency to DP/DR at times of stress, as I have had two abnormal EEGs. Or it's always possible I had a tendency towards it anyway(?)

 

[Tanith]

Why is most of the options drug related. There are ways to get DP without ever going near drugs. I for one got it from severe depression.

 

[usedtobe]

Im pretty sure i got it from a bad panic attack during a high dose mushroom trip.

However since then its been getting worse... probably due to stress of moving to college and stuff like that

Same here....Panic attack while trippin on shrooms. Never quite felt the same since. It happened to me right before I left for college. I ended up graduating, but it was very difficult. I wish you the best of luck and ask for help if you need it. I sure did. Writing papers was almost impossible.

It is only now 6 years later that I am finally staying seeing a therapist and talking about that night and trying to see if I can beat this DP thing.

Good luck to you in school if you happen to read this.

 

[letsgetbetter]

Stress, anxiety, body dysmorphic disorder, genetic predisposition but it was a head injury that triggered it fully.

 

[invisible.ink]

All of the options seem to encompass only drug-induced DP. :? I've had episodic DP all of my life but it became chronic after a severe bout with post natal depression.