The thing about DPDR is that it's very hard to explain or understand. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if a lot of DPDR suffers' parents had it but mistook it for depression or something else.
My mom had episodes of DP when she was around my age when I first experienced it. She said the "looking down from a balloon at myself" thing happened to her once or twice.
For me however it went from episodes to permanent everlasting state with a colorful salad of symptoms.
As others said, I do think a lot of the cases are genetic and the environment triggers it. I think it would be easier to "unlearn" DPDR if it was purely environmental, or is it ever really?
Maybe chronic DPDR where nothing seems to work to "get rid" of it is stubborn because of genetic predisposition, while the episodic type caused by trauma is more environmental.
My mom had episodes of DP when she was around my age when I first experienced it. She said the "looking down from a balloon at myself" thing happened to her once or twice.
For me however it went from episodes to permanent everlasting state with a colorful salad of symptoms.
As others said, I do think a lot of the cases are genetic and the environment triggers it. I think it would be easier to "unlearn" DPDR if it was purely environmental, or is it ever really?
Maybe chronic DPDR where nothing seems to work to "get rid" of it is stubborn because of genetic predisposition, while the episodic type caused by trauma is more environmental.
