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Hi there,
I am a 20 year old man who was experiencing intense episodes of depersonalisation followed by subtle floods of derealisation for roughly four years.
It all started when I would smoke marijuana to cope with the stress from my secondary school work. I developed anxiety at first and this blossomed into full blown DR, even when I was not stoned. It then became a self-perpetuating viscous cycle where by the more I would smoke to reduce my anxiety the more DR'd I would become. Unfortunately at the time I could not link the two to cause and effect and developed a non organic psychosis with DP and DR symptoms.
This spiralling loop occurred for three years. I'm not sure if I should post this in the schizophrenia section or in this community but nevertheless this is how my health problems occurred.
I am a 20 year old man who was experiencing intense episodes of depersonalisation followed by subtle floods of derealisation for roughly four years.
It all started when I would smoke marijuana to cope with the stress from my secondary school work. I developed anxiety at first and this blossomed into full blown DR, even when I was not stoned. It then became a self-perpetuating viscous cycle where by the more I would smoke to reduce my anxiety the more DR'd I would become. Unfortunately at the time I could not link the two to cause and effect and developed a non organic psychosis with DP and DR symptoms.
This spiralling loop occurred for three years. I'm not sure if I should post this in the schizophrenia section or in this community but nevertheless this is how my health problems occurred.
