I forgot to add also when i went through that trauma along with the depersonalization. I lost over 50 lbs & ended up back in the medical hospital with anorexia i had struggled with 6 years earlier & had actually ended up in treatment for.

Anxiety always made me feel sick to my stomach then i couldn't eat. Only when stress lasted a long time did my weight become dangerously low to the point of requiring a central line & IV nutrition.

I don't have BPD but as you see stress can have seriously bad effects on us physically