[peaceboy23]

Does anyone else here sometimes feel that when they are in the midst of dp/dr, that they are in a cage or a box with no escape. I guess this is more along the lines of panic, but i start thinking about my thoughts and thinking about my thinking about my thoughts, and I get all hot all over and like i need to run somewhere, but there is not real place to go. It fades, but does anyone else feel like this someitmes.
As an additional note, does anyone/everyone/no one else think that a major problem for those of us with dp/dr is that we think WAY too much and live in our minds more than we live outwardly. I have alwasy felt that I think too much, and sometimes I feel like my mind is having three differnet strands of thought, and when I start thinking about my thinking, about how i'm thinking about thinking, that is when I get really freaked out/dp'd. If I am able to, or able to FORCE MYSELF to focus on what is going on around me or on something outside myself, it seems to get better. Does anyone have any ideas on this, or any ideas about things to help when I get the trtapped feeling?

 

[enigma]

Does anyone else here sometimes feel that when they are in the midst of dp/dr, that they are in a cage or a box with no escape.

I'm always in the midst of dp/dr, and I'm always in a cage or box with no escape.

So, technically, my answer to that is an emphatic yes.

As an additional note, does anyone/everyone/no one else think that a major problem for those of us with dp/dr is that we think WAY too much and live in our minds more than we live outwardly.

Common wisdom has it that we do.

My personal experience concurs with that.

If I am able to, or able to FORCE MYSELF to focus on what is going on around me or on something outside myself, it seems to get better. Does anyone have any ideas on this, or any ideas about things to help when I get the trtapped feeling?

I posted this in another thread, I think it bears repeating here:

A method I've recently discovered for briefly getting rid of the dp/dr is very close to meditation (it's sort of a meditation technique, I suppose).

I've found that by allowing the mental traffic flow to cease, and allowing my mind to go quiet (while focusing outward), and thinking to myself: "I'm not dp'd", for a fleeting moment I actually sense my presence within my surrounding environment.

I've only done it a few times.

I might try and see if I can't extend the length of the time periods that it lasts.

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Experiment with this, see if you don't have the same experience, and if so, see if you can extend the duration of it with practice (been too damn lazy to myself, this sort of thing is for the young).

e

 

[Isobel]

I get these 'attacks' too, i used to have BDD, and a similar thing used to happen with that, its like a peak of the cycle from the disorder . i think it must be something that happens with somataform disorders
it usually happens when im reading something and i feel im not 'seeing' it the same way i used to then i get the, "was it real in the first place, or all in my mind" thoughts. I found by lessening the anxiety levels, it doesnt happen as much

 

[DM]

Well...

A glass cage. A jar. Something in which you are stuck; a place from where you observe the live of the people who pass you by?

In the first stages of DP/DR the jar is feelings about DP/DR.

You are trying to find a med, a magical cure or some some guru to lift that jar (or to open up the cage in your metaphor).

Once you feel less desperate about DP/DR you will mention that the anxiety and DP/DR come from a fundamental fear.

Point is - all of us in this forum constructed a jar as a way of protection. Why? Every person is unique. Do not know why for you as a unique person.

The jar is your key however - it is keeping out the things you do not WISH TO FEEL.

Most of the people around here are stuck in analysis of the cage they have constructed. So are you.

Try to feel it anyway - the more you do it the less you will feel the borders of it - and the less you will feel Dp'd (or Dr'd).

Engage in your life and break the cage you constructed yourself by proving yourself that you can make contact beyond that wall.