Depersonalization

Health and Recovery
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Does anyone else deal with depersonalization?

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What you mean Chuck? Is that what people talk about your information without your permission?

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My name is not Chuck

What? I don’t understand you.

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I get depersonalization and derealization quite a lot and it feeds into my psychosis

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@Moon - Sorry to hear that Grookey. It sucks doesnt it? Makes me feel like im about to lose my mind.

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I have depersonalization, and the truth is very annoying to suffer from it. I can’t even study.

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I’ve sadly failed twice in my past studies. Dropped out of 2 colleges. Depersonalization is one of the many reasons why.

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I believe I have undiagnosed DPDR.

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What symptoms do you have?

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Is this the same thing as disassociation?

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All the time it is maybe my most prevalent symptom 51515

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Its a type of dissociation specifically feeling disconnected from yourself/like you are not real or watching yourself from a distance. Sometimes even literally seeing yourself from outside your body, but I personally describe it as feeling like a “cardoboard cutout person” for some reason that fits

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Yeah, I get this a lot, too. It sucks, it usually goes away, though, when I sleep it off.

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I’ve had it for quite some time, so I’ve gotten better from some of the symptoms. I’ll write down what I’ve experienced in a list and bold the biggest symptoms I still have trouble with.

  • Memory loss
  • Feeling disconnected from my surroundings
  • Feeling like I’m floating outside of my body
  • Not feeling connected to myself/my body
  • Feeling like I’m living in a dreamlike state
  • Feeling like I’m on autopilot

At one point, it was so bad I thought I was going to start having seizures.

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Chuck! I’m laughing hard. HAHAHAHA!!!

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I mentally disconnect but it’s disconnecting from reality; hence, the Schizophrenia/Psychosis diagnosis. I imagine dissociation/depersonalization relates to “shifting” but functioning in reality plane. If I have inappropriate laughter, it’s part of my own personal reality that doesn’t fall under norms.

But that’s why people like us must forge ahead. Am I right?

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Yeah ive had dissociative issues for the last 15 years. Thats how it started for me, psychosis came later.
Dissociative disorders can also get missed by pdocs and misdiagnosed as other psychotic disorders.

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I thought that’s called schizophrenia, don’t know.

Had depersonalization first too, looking at me from “outside”, it was a little bit crazy, but stressed me not much, if that called depersonalization.
It happend when i was manic

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thankfully

i m fine

just take your meds and you willbe better

occupy your time , distract your thinking ,dont overthinking ,be successful
success in life is the best treatment to everything psychological

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I think i solved the mystery. Zens autocorrect may have kicked in when he typed in Canuk. :laughing:

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