I guess my question is how often do you have depersonalization? And when you do, is there a possible or clear trigger for it that you might know about? I ask this, because I have had issues with both depersonalization and derealization in the past, and I managed to figure out the triggers. Knowing them I could work closely with my therapist in coming up with and using grounding tools. For me, grounding tools were the key to me ridding myself of dissociative symptoms.

I take a small dose of Klonopin and a somewhat small dose of Ativan. I'm on Klonopin probably only because my pdoc thinks I'll have severe withdrawals if we try to take me off. Ativan used to be a prn, but then 3 years ago my pdoc told me to use it for akathisia. It's become a daily med, so soon I'll have the challenge of weaning off of that back to prn. I'm not looking forward to it.