When looking at something, I can't "feel" that I'm seeing it

Saschasascha said:

There are certain areas in your brain not working 100% correctly at the moment; not integrating everything the way it should be. That doesn't mean there is any damage to your brain, but as forestx5 said, it could be very well the temporal lobes not functioning properly. It also doesn't mean it has to stay that way or that this is your new "main brain state". I think that DP is in a lot of cases a combination of accumulated trauma, high sensitivity, introspection as a personality trait, obsessiveness; so I'm with Harris Harrington here. So your current brain state is the result of those conflicts. Of course there are different causes, no size fits all. There can be as well purely biologically caused DP, but I think it is not that common. Lastly, excuse my english, it isn't my main language. And take everything with a grain of salt, those are just my opinions

Lots of strength from Germany

Sascha

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I'm pretty confident that mine is endogenous, or biological, and not caused by external influences. Why do I think so? Because my DP/DR does not correlate with my mood, or anything psychological that I'm conscious of for that matter, whatsoever. If anxiety was the cause, then getting more anxious should increase my DR, and being anxiety-free should conversely have an ameliorating effect on it. This is simple logic. But this isn't the case for me at all. My DR stays relatively consistent regardless of my mental state, and those times that it doesn't, the severity doesn't correspond to my mood but has more to do with whether I'm tired or not.

This is why it's a little frustrating for me to see people conjecture on here and take for granted that DP/DR is definitely anxiety-related when it's anything but scientifically proven that that's the only, or even main, cause. Also, these one-size-fits-all magic bullets that people offer where they go "do X, and you'll be cured overnight!" are more than a little irritating. "Because it worked for me, it'll work for everyone!"-logic.

But it's worth mentioning that it's possible that even though we all describe what we have as DP/DR, we could in reality have vastly different ailments because interpretations of the same descriptions vary, and people use language differently. These symptoms are already inherently difficult to put into words. I guess I would say what I have is DR only, but no DP.