[Anonymous69]

ACCEPTING
Accept all the scary/unlikely/weird thinkings. Accept the state in which you are. Accept everything without trying to fight it. The key to get out is to stop reentry into it. ( dp )
Fighting it and not accepting negative thoughts can push you in instead of out.
Its how I healed from a 1 year depersonalization.
It can seems like a manifesting or abstract thing but it is not. We are rational here.
And it makes sense in a way. See : how do you calm panic attack ? With accepting the thoughts. This is how I discovered its the same for dp bc both are based on anxiety.
You may not believe it because of the state you are in right now or it may seems too easy for you but in reality IT IS ! Dp recovery is a lot "easier" than we think. People say it. It "just" takes patience, courage, and medication ( or meditation but medication is more efficient ) to stop suffering from anxiety.
You will not overnight but you'll see you will be able to redo things you were no longer able to do, recover your sensations, get yourself back and be more and more lucid each day. It will come gradually. It has to and it WILL.
Write in your notes the improvements that there are each day/every week because this illness can sometimes make you believe that there is no change since the beginning but its FALSE. Write it and believe it.
All the things the anxiety is trying to make you believe are false or are exaggerated. I promise you life is normal even great. Contrary to what it tried to make me believe.
And go ask medication to a psychiatrist for panic attacks as well.
I know the nightmare, the confusion and fear you are going through but believe me everybody can get out of it and everybody HAVE to. You have no choice, get OUT of it. ( not to sound rude, it's sentences like that that helped me among others )
You lose nothing by trying. If it worked for me, it can work for you.
Courage ( and i'm not talking about the cowardly dog )

PS : And when I tell you to accept I am not telling you to neglect seeing a psy or going to the mental hospital AT ALL. On the contrary. Go seek professional help ! Combine all the tips that can work. Go read other tips and other testimonials. Put all the luck on your side.

 

[Peter]

The recovery tip is "simply" to ACCEPT

 

[coolwhip27]

After reading this, I’ve managed to cure myself. At least for now.

And Peter, you just don’t understand this version of DP. People like me and anonymous who have had DP have it because we think ourselves crazy. The only relief is acceptance

 

[NoDevils]

This is ignores the social aspect of mental health problems.

But, yes, acceptance is the main reason most people here are stuck fixating on their symptoms and trying to manifest a cure out of nothing. Acceptance won't necessarily cure depersonalization, and I would never put it as a cure, but it's the first step to improving one's life. I think you mean acceptance in the transcendental way rather than passivity or ignorance.

 

[Anonymous69]

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[Anonymous69]

After reading this, I’ve managed to cure myself. At least for now.

And Peter, you just don’t understand this version of DP. People like me and anonymous who have had DP have it because we think ourselves crazy. The only relief is acceptance

I'm very happy to hear that. Not only relief for me but output too. We're not crazy at all, you don't have a brain decease, you're not schizophrenic, if you think all that it's simply anxiety trying to look for all the worst case scenarios and its often the proof that you have depersonalization and nothing else.

 

[Anonymous69]

This is ignores the social aspect of mental health problems.

But, yes, acceptance is the main reason most people here are stuck fixating on their symptoms and trying to manifest a cure out of nothing. Acceptance won't necessarily cure depersonalization, and I would never put it as a cure, but it's the first step to improving one's life. I think you mean acceptance in the transcendental way rather than passivity or ignorance.

Can you explain me how it is ignoring the social aspect of mental health problems please ?
There is no connection, DON'T fixate on the symptoms.
I don't mean that at all. Rather than FIGHT it.*
Fighting it and not accepting negative thoughts can push you in instead of out.
I'm rational, it's not a "law of attraction" bullshit. ( no offense to attraction believers. )

 

[Anonymous69]

This is ignores the social aspect of mental health problems.

But, yes, acceptance is the main reason most people here are stuck fixating on their symptoms and trying to manifest a cure out of nothing. Acceptance won't necessarily cure depersonalization, and I would never put it as a cure, but it's the first step to improving one's life. I think you mean acceptance in the transcendental way rather than passivity or ignorance.

And when I tell you to accept I am not telling you to neglect seeing a psy or going to the mental hospital AT ALL ! On the contrary. Combine both. Combine all the tips that can work. Go read other tips and other testimonials. Put all the luck on your side.

 

[Anonymous69]

Corrected the title to "how I healed". I can understand we don't all have the same life journey.

 

[coolwhip27]

I'm very happy to hear that. Not only relief for me but output too. We're not crazy at all, you don't have a brain decease, you're not schizophrenic, if you think all that it's simply anxiety trying to look for all the worst case scenarios and its often the proof that you have depersonalization and nothing else.

Perhaps you’re one of the very few I’ve met that understands this causal mechanism of anxiety as it relates to DP. It IS just anxiety, anxiety manifesting from non-acceptance of what is.

 

[NoDevils]

And when I tell you to accept I am not telling you to neglect seeing a psy or going to the mental hospital AT ALL ! On the contrary. Combine both. Combine all the tips that can work. Go read other tips and other testimonials. Put all the luck on your side.

I'm far along in recovery in terms of being affected by depersonalization. I will say the mental health treatment system has a lot of harms as well as benefits. Acceptance is big, especially in "incurable" syndromes, and so is awareness.

 

[Flying Circus]

I'm far along in recovery in terms of being affected by depersonalization. I will say the mental health treatment system has a lot of harms as well as benefits. Acceptance is big, especially in "incurable" syndromes, and so is awareness.

I agree that acceptance is very important. I have primary depersonalization, and it is not associated with anxiety or depression. I realize that my situation is different that others, but the idea of not allowing myself to get freaked out by it, helps a lot.

 

[channi]

Perhaps you’re one of the very few I’ve met that understands this causal mechanism of anxiety as it relates to DP. It IS just anxiety, anxiety manifesting from non-acceptance of what is.

Thank you for saying this. Made me understand this condition a little better