Anyone here have experience with this? Or better yet; had it and somehow 'cured' it?I've been living with this (mostly derealization) for 10 years now. Tried all kinds of therapies, nothing really worked. I don't have major panic attacks or am as frightened by it like in the beginning because of those therapies, but it's still here. I can kind of live with it, but it's still scary sometimes to even go outside, and after 10 years you would think I'd be used to it by now.I don't do drugs and don't drink. I try to keep healthy and go for a run sometimes, and do volunteer work in a kitchen a few mornings a week.Anyway, share your story if you had this, and especially if you made it go away.
I got it from smoking weed. The first time I ever smoked weed I just assumed that weed would hit you in the same amount of time that a cigarrett takes. So I just kept hitting my pipe for like 5 minutes straight and then proceeded to get about as high as it is physically possible to get. I thought I was going to die and had some kind of panic attack. I was still high as fuck the next day when I woke up and kind of had a second panic about never going back to normal. Then as the high faded I had an intense depersonalization feeling. As though I was an outside observer watching myself over my shoulder or something. And that slowly faded away over the following 2 months or so. I had to just kind of accept it and try to stop worrying about it or thinking about it and then one day I realized it was gone.
