bruh ive had derealisation/depersonalisation for a decade and ive found out how to get rid of it, its gonna work differently for you and you will most likely get better way faster than i did, but i fucked up for half the decade and eventually used techniques over the last fee years to make myself better, you learn to be nice to yourself, be in the moment, continue to change bad thoughts without getting frustrated about it all the time, but after a while when inwas using the relaxation techniques i was stagnant and gettign pissed off at myself for still not feeling thingd strongly. The big issue was i was just being lazy all the time thinking doing nothing would make me instantly get better, but i had to pull myself out of it and learn to feel by pushing myself to feel. BUT NOT pushing yourself when you feel like crap, you got to be in a neutral nothing state before you encourage yourself to gain your feelings back. with my libido problem i just kept thinking sexy thoughts eventho i didn’t feel like it, i just had to stop when i felt too unwell and try again later, i combined thst with taking herbal teas like tulsi, multivitamins snd horny goat weed and nicotine gum(i dont smoke). Now just today i was able to feel a good amount of emotions and arousal judt a few days of taking horny goat weed suppliment and metamucil, multivitamins, tulsi tea, nicotine gum, as well as doing productive things to teach myself to realise i have energy to do things, you must teach yourself that you have energy and everything falls more into place, never give up, keep believing, when you cant take it anymore snd you become negative and hopeless, quickly snap out of it! We are going to get better!
>>34705801Nice glad you found a foothold, I was also in the Dp/Dr fog for close to twenty years (I think. Time is fucking weird in what is effectively mental purgatory). What have me the big breakthrough was removing myself from the environment & people associated with the events that put me in there (family, family home). For three months straight, not alone but with people who were healthy. I rapidly lifted the fog and it felt a bit like waking up from a coma except I wasn't in a coma just that's how it felt, the clarity was insane but also too much so I'd start the habit of deliberately going back into Dp/Dr on and off for a year or so. Whenever it was advantageous to do so to get through intense stressful situations. Over time I could stay present more and more and I'm present for about 90% of any given day.
>>34705817holycrap you have done way better than me to get over thiings from a few months to a couple of years
>>34705820It's a process, and it comes and goes you can get out of DpDr for a week and it'll come back when you get your next fight or flight response from something. But each stay at the funny lalaland hotel in your head gets shorter and shorter. I just find the three month GTFO away from negative influences thing helped accelerate recovery for me. But yes recovery is not only possible it's guaranteed. Thanks for this thread man more people should talk about it
>>34706058yeah people are talking about it more in a more uplifting way on tiktok, years ago it was just some people on youtube and some of them give shit advice like trying to maks you feel ashamed that we ruined our own lives and usijg toigh love motivational speech, ive also have to deal with everyone not believing thst i even have this disorder and being kicked out of home cuz of it and my marriage being ruined and getting divorced
>>34706106Jesus that's tough. Sorry about the marriage, that's hard. I remember what it was like to be emotionally cut off and not able to fully give people what they wanted out of me yet desiring to greatly, watching people get upset with me while I was trapped in my own head with nothing to do but watch things go wrong. I don't understand why the public has a hard time understanding it, dissociation is something that everyone experiences. Daydreams for examples that's a form of dissociation. Except in Dp/Dr is involuntary and is active 24/7. Derealization is harder to describe. But the best way I could describe it is:>It's like if life were a first person video game. Just as how you are overly conscious of your hands and your own PoV like in a videogame, it feels exactly like that but for every moment of waking life. Everything feeling almost dream like in nature, but in a lifeless way.Depersonalisation is tricky to describe too. Very much like feeling you don't exist, or if you do, you're just a vague thought form piloting what feels like a meat puppet. All of that rolled into one, occuring constantly every waking day = DpDr. That's my experience
