[Confusedatglance]

Hi! I was wondering if anyone ever had an issue with school/studying after you got derealization or depersonalization. My issue is that I went from An A student to a barely passing college student.

Ever since I got DR or DP whichever you prefer to call it I can do anything but the only thing I can't do is sit down, study, and memorize. It's not adhd or add but my mind is constantly in far far away land doing god knows what.

When it comes down to studying or memorizing anything for that matter even work related stuff mentally I'm not there. Has anyone else experienced this? If so what do you do about it?

[Skeezyks]

Hello Confusedatglance: I see this is your first post... so... welcome to PsychCentral... from the Skeezyks! May you find the time you spend here to be of benefit.

I don't know that I can really offer much with regard to the subject of your post. I'm an older person now. And, especially recently, I've found it increasingly difficult to read anything of any depth. In fact, just a few days ago I sold a bunch of books I had purchased to read. I just decided I was never going to be able to sit down & focus on them, so why keep them around?

I've always had difficulty concentrating. And rote memorization was almost always near impossible. The only way I managed to graduate from college was that, while I was still in school, they dropped the foreign language requirement. I never knew anyone who spoke anything other than English & so learning a foreign language in college would have been rote memorization. I wish you well...

[eskielover]

Hi Confused.......I experienced depersonalization after going through a trauma. I'm guessing that you went through something that has caused you to experience derealization/depersonalization now when you didn't experience it before.

My DBT group leader explained that depersonalization is a normal reaction to stress....all people experience it a little when stress hits....it becomes bad when the stress comes from a trauma or long term stress. It becomes our coping mechanism for stress. I realized the more I experienced it the more it would hit.

For me, it's been 11 years since the trauma & I am hardly ever experiencing it any longer though when I get highly stressed it usually hits when I'm at home now.

First I would say...worth with a therapist (T) to help you process what cause you to experience this in the first place. Understanding is like knowledge is power & it helps lessen the minds need to depersonalize.

It was the strangest feeling the first time I experienced it after the trauma...I was in a place that had nothing to do with it. I was at the ranch with my horses climbing on the hay to get feed for the horses...all of a sudden it was like I was watching myself & when someone said something to me I answered but had no idea how I knew heat to answer. Scared me so bad I just wanted to hide.

The mind works in complicated ways it thinks it's protecting us.

The best thing like I said is to process what was the cause if it starting to happen in your life....whatever stressful event that might have been.

Welcome to PC hope you find it helpful

[Confusedatglance]

Thank you both for the advice