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Illness does not have to something to choke the life out of you. Illness can be a kind of stepping stone to better health and compassion. It really is how you go about accepting yourself(s). Use your illness as a stepping stone. Whatever it does to you....try to use it to help. Depersonalization...perhaps you can write about that....or make some kind of art...sculpture, painting, etc...or find out what others have done to manage depersonalization. Dissociation? The real solution to dissociation aka DID is to learn to work together and communicate with all inside. My old T used the smoothie as an example of a goal. Instead of trying to make the different parts go away, why not combine the different parts, blend them, and merge together into something new...a smoothie. All parts can be tasted, but what a wonderful drink has been created. Derealization? Does that allow a kind of freedom from reality that can be enjoyable? Or is that scary? If scary what can you do to make that experience more tolerable? Can you use that solution anywhere else in your life? Can that solution help others?
This is our approach. You may be too tired to consider any of what we have found, that is okay. One day at a time...each day is a chance to make existence better for yourself(s) and others like you.
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