Hey guys,
I suffered from severe dp/dr for more than a year.
I can't really put my finger on the exact point when it started, but it's around August/ September last year.
It was a full package of panic attacks, extreme social fear and the usual brain fog, not recognizing myself, my body, my voice or anything that used to be me.
The hardest part for me was the feeling of having no identity, the weird feeling that I never lived (cause my memories seemed like someone else lived that life) and the feeling of going crazy.
When it all started I was in New Zealand on a work and travel year. Luckily I found refuge at a true angels place where I could stay and sort myself for the next 8 months. I meditated, did heaps of yoga, listened to endless positive thinking videos asf.. nothing really helped.
Somewhere in the middle where it was getting harder by everyday it suddenly swang around and I felt little progress day by day.
One big step was to open up to the people around me and speak openly about it, this got the whole topic out of my head and made me see that all I got was compassion and love instead of the negative things I was anticipating.
After some time I remembered that I already fought of a really heavy depression 2 years prior which had been caused by me being addicted to porn and masturbation. If you guys never really thought too much about that topic I strongly recommend the nofap forum (just google it).
Since excessive masturbation triggers fear and anxiety and dp/dr is a heavy form of an anxiety disorder I finally saw a connection. Short story time: i started masturbating and watching porn when I was 13 more or less daily til I turned 21 (im 23 now).
Sometimes I fapped up to 6 times a day and regardless of my efforts to break this habit I never really found success. It takes heaps of strength and willpower to break it, but in my eyes it's one of society's biggest problems.
I strongly reccomend reading up on this topic in the nofap forum, and if you guys are masturbating a lot try to stop it completely. It will do you so much good, most of all your brain gets some time to recover and the chemicals can rebalance to a healthy norm.
Since I stopped with that habit about a month ago my dp/dr seemed to vanish into thin air. I feel like i am really present again, I have my own personality, people are real people again, my feelings came back and slowly my self confidence and humor are growing again
it's a pleasure to be alive again and I can finally feel that I am.
I know that porn and masturbation are kind of a taboo topic that no one in society really adresses, but out of all the things I've tried to cure my dp/dr this helped me the most. Do yourself the favor and read up on it and then try to abstain from it for at least 30 days. You are strong and can do it.
I tried posting something similar some time ago, but somehow it was never posted, so if some admin in the proof reading finds this not postable please message me and tell me why.
Lots of love to you guys, I can say for sure that it is the toughest challenge of your life, but it is beatable and you are strong enough and have al the capabilities to do it.
Believe in yourself! ❤
I suffered from severe dp/dr for more than a year.
I can't really put my finger on the exact point when it started, but it's around August/ September last year.
It was a full package of panic attacks, extreme social fear and the usual brain fog, not recognizing myself, my body, my voice or anything that used to be me.
The hardest part for me was the feeling of having no identity, the weird feeling that I never lived (cause my memories seemed like someone else lived that life) and the feeling of going crazy.
When it all started I was in New Zealand on a work and travel year. Luckily I found refuge at a true angels place where I could stay and sort myself for the next 8 months. I meditated, did heaps of yoga, listened to endless positive thinking videos asf.. nothing really helped.
Somewhere in the middle where it was getting harder by everyday it suddenly swang around and I felt little progress day by day.
One big step was to open up to the people around me and speak openly about it, this got the whole topic out of my head and made me see that all I got was compassion and love instead of the negative things I was anticipating.
After some time I remembered that I already fought of a really heavy depression 2 years prior which had been caused by me being addicted to porn and masturbation. If you guys never really thought too much about that topic I strongly recommend the nofap forum (just google it).
Since excessive masturbation triggers fear and anxiety and dp/dr is a heavy form of an anxiety disorder I finally saw a connection. Short story time: i started masturbating and watching porn when I was 13 more or less daily til I turned 21 (im 23 now).
Sometimes I fapped up to 6 times a day and regardless of my efforts to break this habit I never really found success. It takes heaps of strength and willpower to break it, but in my eyes it's one of society's biggest problems.
I strongly reccomend reading up on this topic in the nofap forum, and if you guys are masturbating a lot try to stop it completely. It will do you so much good, most of all your brain gets some time to recover and the chemicals can rebalance to a healthy norm.
Since I stopped with that habit about a month ago my dp/dr seemed to vanish into thin air. I feel like i am really present again, I have my own personality, people are real people again, my feelings came back and slowly my self confidence and humor are growing again
it's a pleasure to be alive again and I can finally feel that I am.I know that porn and masturbation are kind of a taboo topic that no one in society really adresses, but out of all the things I've tried to cure my dp/dr this helped me the most. Do yourself the favor and read up on it and then try to abstain from it for at least 30 days. You are strong and can do it.
I tried posting something similar some time ago, but somehow it was never posted, so if some admin in the proof reading finds this not postable please message me and tell me why.
Lots of love to you guys, I can say for sure that it is the toughest challenge of your life, but it is beatable and you are strong enough and have al the capabilities to do it.
Believe in yourself! ❤
