[enroutetopeace]

Hello all! I'm new to the forum. I'm deeply thankful to have found this place.

How do you guys cope with derealization/depersonalization? anything that helps you particularly? and, what are your worst symptoms?

my worst is feeling like I'm going crazy and feeling like a stranger to myself. let me know!

<3

[Skeezyks]

Hello enroutetopeace: I don't know as I have much of anything to offer you with regard to this. However, I noticed no one had replied to your post. So I thought I would. In an effort to resolve my difficult emotions I employ a Buddhist practice called "compassionate abiding". Here is a link to a nice mental-health-oriented description of the practice. May it be of benefit:

https://mindsetdoc.wordpress.com/201...e-abiding-101/

[elevatedsoul]

my therapist has gone over a few things that are supposed to help...

like focusing on an object and noticing all the details to it, move to another object and absorbe all the details... trying to ground yourself to the surroundings...

using cold water is nice though, ill splash cold water on my face and wash it with cold water and helps a bit... although what she told me to do was do a cold water dive wher just put your face in bowl of cold ice water for a second, a few times maybe...

breathing and focusing on breathing might help, tell yourself that its ok, you're not going crazy and just need to breathe, i always use the phrase "this too shall pass"

touching yourself helps... i rub my hands, arms... legs... shaking my legs, moving around alot... walking... pacing... but i dunno how much any of it helps, she says its not about curing it right off the bat but about reducing the distress by a point atleast...

i cant remember everything she said... but the lastest is she recommended trying yoga... im interested in the idea myself, im just not so flexable due to all the damage ive caused my body hehe... but it may be a good thing to try

[finding_my_way]

i never found grounding techniques helped much. it always is/was a matter of just going through it, not trying to fight it, and eventually it lessened. but at my worst, they were almost 24/7 and unrelenting. at the absolute worst (triggered by a medication for depression), i was questioning if i was alive to the point that i almost hurt myself to see if i was or not. it was terrifying. once i stopped the med, it lessened back to more of the baseline symptoms i had.

i mostly just have to do a lot of self talk with things no matter what the symptoms are and assure myself things are ok, it will pass, etc.

[Lost_in_the_woods]

It been bad lately..but not life threatening..not yet but if it keeps going like it has...I'm worried. Nearly got run over by a car earlier today..getting to the point that I just don't see anything past fuzzy and dreamlike...almost catatonic but still moving..I guess. The existence issue has been popping up a lot too... sorry for the doom and gloom..
Helpful stuff...hmm... smooth stones. Stomping feet/doing jumping jacks...that helps. The DR tho..I don't really know anything that helps unless someone outside is able to snap us out of it before it fully sets in... sorry that's all I got.
~S☆

[Lost_in_the_woods]

Originally Posted by finding_my_way

i never found grounding techniques helped much. it always is/was a matter of just going through it, not trying to fight it, and eventually it lessened. but at my worst, they were almost 24/7 and unrelenting. at the absolute worst (triggered by a medication for depression), i was questioning if i was alive to the point that i almost hurt myself to see if i was or not. it was terrifying. once i stopped the med, it lessened back to more of the baseline symptoms i had.

i mostly just have to do a lot of self talk with things no matter what the symptoms are and assure myself things are ok, it will pass, etc.

Oh man! They put us on Welbutrin once...straight over the cliff!! Horrible stuff!!