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Hi , I've suffered from both depersonalization and derealization for 20 yrs , back in my early 20s I came to forums like these with that beyond relieved feeling of finding out what it was , for 20 yrs I found nothing helped with crushing dissociation and it evolved into a full blown existential crisis in my mid 30s and I was sure it would kill me.
The thoughts and distortions were so severe I truly wanted to die .
I'm only coming back on these forums to share my experience of being through 40-plus medications and multiple therapies to find that pregabalin-also known as lyrica has been a life saving treatment.
Iv taken it for 8 months and it took time to get to a dosage that's right for me, 150mg 3x daily . Also it's important to note that going off lyrica will cause it all to come back and it will feel worse so I'm careful with it. Perhaps it's inappropriate but I split my dose in half 2 or 3 times a week to prevent tolerance build up.
Nothing else took it away .
I hope this might help someone.
The thoughts and distortions were so severe I truly wanted to die .
I'm only coming back on these forums to share my experience of being through 40-plus medications and multiple therapies to find that pregabalin-also known as lyrica has been a life saving treatment.
Iv taken it for 8 months and it took time to get to a dosage that's right for me, 150mg 3x daily . Also it's important to note that going off lyrica will cause it all to come back and it will feel worse so I'm careful with it. Perhaps it's inappropriate but I split my dose in half 2 or 3 times a week to prevent tolerance build up.
Nothing else took it away .
I hope this might help someone.