I have a dissociative disorder. Doing things and staying active has never helped. Going thru college, working and trying to connect with people has never helped this problem. I constantly feel unreal and detached from myself. No professional has ever picked up on this problem except for a few diagnoses in the 90's of schizophrenia, schizoaffective and schizoid which I've been told are incorrect. I've never had a break with reality but I've always had the detachment. I know that medication can't help this. I've seen psychiatrists or nurse the last 35 years mainly for depression, anxiety, agitation or bipolar disorder. Last year Johns Hopkins added the diagnosis of Asberger's. I can't work on the Asberger's in therapy because of the detachment. There's just too much that is wrong. If it was just depression or anxiety yeah I could make a good attempt to conquer it. My last therapist didn't want to listen to all of these problems. She dismissed them as making excuses for getting better. I wasn't making any excuses.