Depersonalization is defined as feeling unreal and detached from your body’s thoughts, sensation and actions. It’s like you’re observing yourself and your …
I got this shit smoking weed years ago! I never NEVER smoked again! I’m doing well now, BUT sometimes It still comes back!
Does affect career opportunities as well? Even though I don’t see myself in the professional world. Sometimes I feel worthless and not cable of doing anything normal professionally? How can I over come this? I am 36 several college degrees but ai don’t even have my driver license, I don’t have any problems with drug use, I don’t use medications. But I do think ai have been depressed for years without even knowing it! Sometimes I fear the worst that is going to happen in my life like dying or something bad is going to happen to my family. I have several panic attacks and have days that I can’t to over come my thoughts. I am a micro manger and it’s driving me insane! I do have Ovarian failure from the age of 28 and now 36. I have the hormone levels of 80 yrs old woman 👵 I am on HRT I am trying to find a psych on my own who will take my insurance. Isn’t live my life like this anymore.
I have been feeling this since 14 years.
Coming up on a year with this. I've had MRI's done took meds and thought I was going crazy, one thing I havent tried is therapy and being healthy all around. I've lived a very unhealthy lifestyle and have always had anxiety and anger problems I'm guessing that has alot to do with it. To everyone going through this be strong I know there's a way out!
I have this. It's horrible with anxiety.
Its like you are in your own memories or something and nothing is actually real and nobody is around you
This was the darkest experience ive ever had. I always felt crazy but until I experienced this I really felt crazy. I thought it was just an anxiety attack until it lasted 3 weeks. For 3 weeks straight i woke up in fear and felt gone and in dream and no control of myself. The mirror was my enemy. I was so confused on what i was going threw i didn’t know if it was demons or or what. There were times it would peak and i felt like i was gonna absolutely lose my fucking mind. But the peak passes and so does this feeling. It’s probably 4 weeks since I experienced this and im not 100% but i feel better at times and have been laughing a little. Xanax really helped the panic. And binge watching a tv show helped. Doing pushups helped. (Not cured but helped). But im glad that instead of feelin that feeling 24/7 now im feeling it on and off so hopefully threw counseling ive set up and summer coming ill feel better. Just know your not alone. I still have yet to pinpoint what caused it. I believe depression and anxiety just hit the max and put me in a state of stuck. Or maybe something spiritual..idk. BUT I AINT NO BITCH I STAY FIGHTING.
I don't think mine is as severe at all but I do think i might have derealization so what happens to me is I just think about how the world was created and how humans like myself were made and get a strange feeling but it isnt uncomfortable or anything I can easily stop it and start it it's just my thoughts
DP/DR is often a symptom of protracted benzo and AD withdrawal and does not mean the person has an underlying condition (which would imply they need more meds).
Yo, It sad to think that me a 13yr old from USA, Has To go through this Shit. I look in a mirror, and I question myself if I Exist or if that is really me
I have had this disorder like 18 years now. It started due childhood trauma and after that it was on intensively about 6-10 years. Then it started slowly fade away. Nowadays it still part of me but only in certain situations or environments. Its truly hell when it's on all the time but based on my experience, I can say that it will fade away!
Ever since I was 13 I started having seizures I started experiencing this when I was 15 I also have severe anxiety I am now 17 I feel like it’s taken over my life i don’t know what to do.
I have anxiety and sometimes when I look in the mirror I recognize myself but as more as I look I feel like my face look unreal or awkward. But I normally look in the mirror and don't bother with it, only wjen I remember this illness. Basically I look in the mirror and then I am remembering…. What if that is not me, do I look like this? And I am really scared to talk to my parents about it… I don't know if I am crazy or if I do this to myself.
i’ve had this for a couple of weeks now and the first time this happened i has a massive panik attack and i’m only 14 and it’s really scary for me , i’ve gone trough a lot with my mum dying , doc , do you think that’s the reason ?
Mental health problems SUCK! Thankfully tho we are not alone in this, and we need to seek help and talk to friends and family.
God I thought I was alone. I'm literally crying. Thankyou so much. My doctors and my therapists always refuse to acknowledge what's right in their faces because I'm bad at explaining and of my young age. I've had that feeling since I was 12, I'm 15 now. Now I know what it might be x
i have depersonalization/derealization but i believe mine comes from anxiety. i smoked weed one night (keep in mind i have been smoking for 2 years) and it triggered a bad panic attack and nothing has felt real since. this was back in September, it’s now January. i feel better most of the time but whenever i’m at work it’s usually the worst. i also smoke weed A LOT less, but i’m guessing i should quit altogether? and i also stopped smoking cigarettes and nicotine related products. also, is chest pain and sharp abdominal/chest pains normal from anxiety? because i can’t get out my mind or something may be internally wrong with me..
Happens att the time
I feel like this all the time. When I look at myself in the mirror I see the body of someone who isn’t me at all
I've been experiencing derealization symptomes relatively often, but it wasn't usually very strong. But what I realized after watching this video is that I get both depersonalization and derealization symptomes when I have to speak in front of other people, for example during a presentation in school.
I'd get super stressed about it, but then when I had to go up there and actually start the presentation, the world around me felt like in a dream. I knew that I was actually up there giving a presentation, but my brain was telling me that nothing matters because it's just a dream and I can simply wake up. I also never really remember any of it (but that's quite common with other people who are scared of public speaking), and if I did remember anything, it was looking at the people, everywhere was dark and there was this imaginary light shining in my face. The other thing is that I sometimes remembered watching myself give the presentation like I was just a ghost floating above the other people. It was really strange.
After the presentation was over, I would often get a panic attack, I'd be crying, my hands would be shaking for like the next hour or so and I'd have all of the classic symptoms like my heart beating fast and hyperventilation. I always found it so strange when people would just tell me that if I practiced public speaking, I'd get better at it eventually. Like, how could I get better at it when it's not even me talking? I would try to do better presentations or learn from other people's constructive criticism, but I wasn't really the one giving the presentation…
If I'd been born with this condition, I probably wouldn't even any know better. It's the fact that in childhood, my perception and general senses to my environment were so intricate, that its almost unbearable to live today in comparison. Everything is just automatic, speaking to people in a programmed way, going where I need to go, all my muscles seem to move on their own, and its more complex than just saying "I'm trapped in my head." It's more like life became 2D, when you know there are 3D, 4D, 5D, even 6D but you cannot feel or reach them. I don't know how to cure it, but I did find some things which worsen it for me. Looking at a phone or computer screen for too long, being in a crowd or large city, and loud noises like shouting. Some things that lessen it for me are; taking deep, quick breaths, stopping all physical and mental work to focus on the present, preferably in a garden, smelling rosemary (I know its weird) and just trying to realize the slow passing of time in general seems to help.
I went through depersonalization as a teen. Didn’t know there was a name for it. It felt like I was floating above or beside my body. It would come and go. Very strange.
I've dealt with this for over half a decade now, I dont even really remember when it started. But I tend to almost always feel a slight disconnect to reality, sometimes I'm fully present tho. And sometime I have really bad moments where I feel like the room I'm in is floating in space, or that my body isnt real, or that I'm in a simulation. Its hard to describe how depersonalization works for me, I always feel like my emotions and thoughts are just me lying to myself, I always feel like my body is a robot and I'm in my head looking out thru my eyes. My body always feels hazy. And I know what I look like but it's like my brain is playing telephone because when I look in the mirror I never really look quite right, I never really look like me. The passage of time also feels really skewed to me, either it doesn't exist or it's a rollercoaster going so fast that I can't properly prepare myself for anything. It takes me a really long time to mentally prepare myself for a whole lot of things and if I dont my anxiety goes thru the roof. Since I'm almost constantly dissociated I have a very poor memory
I randomly googled one days hands don’t feel real symptoms and found these disorders this explains
WHAT HELPED ME OUT One of my friend showed me your channel, and i really appreciate your works, that's why i leave this comment, and because you encourage us too.
This in not a success story by now, but getting better again. So for me it was the combination of more things, yoga, meditation, and my interest to be free. I have good genetics so my body easily become strong what makes me more easily involved in sports or making exercise, but in the beginning it was very hard. In my opinion it is good to move everyday, but I guess strong physical efforts make us feel our body sensations more and when you sweat, feel the pain it is grounding. Helps you out from your mind.
So maybe this is extreme, but Astanga yoga is the most intense yoga, you have to learn a serial and in the end do it 6 days/week. I did and my perception of the world became totally fine. During the lessons sometimes it was awkward i was crying, and rejecting the helpers… my teacher told me he was thinking to drop me out. I was lucky he didn't. I learnt after being awkward I can go back again, new day, new chance… During the practice your mind just align you all shit, but you have to continue… and in the end you learn how to not grasp those problems, just go through out… like you are in an emergency situation and you have to get out you can't stop cause there is too much danger…
Cause i think to get to this point to feel the whole world unreal… just look at the beauty and feel it so empty, it is infinitely painful… you had to go through some stuff in your past life. So there are many ways these days which are offering us to get out from our destructive thinking, to make an order in our head and win on the mind.
I am coming back from a very very deep dive into the role of the victim, so I encourage everybody to take responsibility NOW! As it is mentioned in this video Cognitive Behavior Therapy can be a solution to make you understand better where you stuck, where you trapped in your thinking. There are still discounts on the Udemy, i can offer Kain Ramsay's courses. (The Fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or The NLP Confidence & Self Esteem Breakthrough Programme)
I hope this was a bit helpful for some people! Thanks Dr. Marks for your works.
I got this shit smoking weed years ago! I never NEVER smoked again! I’m doing well now, BUT sometimes It still comes back!
Does affect career opportunities as well? Even though I don’t see myself in the professional world. Sometimes I feel worthless and not cable of doing anything normal professionally? How can I over come this? I am 36 several college degrees but ai don’t even have my driver license, I don’t have any problems with drug use, I don’t use medications. But I do think ai have been depressed for years without even knowing it! Sometimes I fear the worst that is going to happen in my life like dying or something bad is going to happen to my family. I have several panic attacks and have days that I can’t to over come my thoughts. I am a micro manger and it’s driving me insane! I do have Ovarian failure from the age of 28 and now 36. I have the hormone levels of 80 yrs old woman 👵 I am on HRT I am trying to find a psych on my own who will take my insurance. Isn’t live my life like this anymore.
I have been feeling this since 14 years.
Coming up on a year with this. I've had MRI's done took meds and thought I was going crazy, one thing I havent tried is therapy and being healthy all around. I've lived a very unhealthy lifestyle and have always had anxiety and anger problems I'm guessing that has alot to do with it. To everyone going through this be strong I know there's a way out!
I have this. It's horrible with anxiety.
Its like you are in your own memories or something and nothing is actually real and nobody is around you
This was the darkest experience ive ever had. I always felt crazy but until I experienced this I really felt crazy. I thought it was just an anxiety attack until it lasted 3 weeks. For 3 weeks straight i woke up in fear and felt gone and in dream and no control of myself. The mirror was my enemy. I was so confused on what i was going threw i didn’t know if it was demons or or what. There were times it would peak and i felt like i was gonna absolutely lose my fucking mind. But the peak passes and so does this feeling. It’s probably 4 weeks since I experienced this and im not 100% but i feel better at times and have been laughing a little. Xanax really helped the panic. And binge watching a tv show helped. Doing pushups helped. (Not cured but helped). But im glad that instead of feelin that feeling 24/7 now im feeling it on and off so hopefully threw counseling ive set up and summer coming ill feel better. Just know your not alone. I still have yet to pinpoint what caused it. I believe depression and anxiety just hit the max and put me in a state of stuck. Or maybe something spiritual..idk. BUT I AINT NO BITCH I STAY FIGHTING.
I don't think mine is as severe at all but I do think i might have derealization so what happens to me is I just think about how the world was created and how humans like myself were made and get a strange feeling but it isnt uncomfortable or anything I can easily stop it and start it it's just my thoughts
DP/DR is often a symptom of protracted benzo and AD withdrawal and does not mean the person has an underlying condition (which would imply they need more meds).
Yo, It sad to think that me a 13yr old from USA, Has To go through this Shit. I look in a mirror, and I question myself if I Exist or if that is really me
I have had this disorder like 18 years now. It started due childhood trauma and after that it was on intensively about 6-10 years. Then it started slowly fade away. Nowadays it still part of me but only in certain situations or environments. Its truly hell when it's on all the time but based on my experience, I can say that it will fade away!
Ever since I was 13 I started having seizures I started experiencing this when I was 15 I also have severe anxiety I am now 17 I feel like it’s taken over my life i don’t know what to do.
I have anxiety and sometimes when I look in the mirror I recognize myself but as more as I look I feel like my face look unreal or awkward. But I normally look in the mirror and don't bother with it, only wjen I remember this illness. Basically I look in the mirror and then I am remembering…. What if that is not me, do I look like this? And I am really scared to talk to my parents about it… I don't know if I am crazy or if I do this to myself.
i’ve had this for a couple of weeks now and the first time this happened i has a massive panik attack and i’m only 14 and it’s really scary for me , i’ve gone trough a lot with my mum dying , doc , do you think that’s the reason ?
Mental health problems SUCK! Thankfully tho we are not alone in this, and we need to seek help and talk to friends and family.
God I thought I was alone. I'm literally crying. Thankyou so much. My doctors and my therapists always refuse to acknowledge what's right in their faces because I'm bad at explaining and of my young age. I've had that feeling since I was 12, I'm 15 now. Now I know what it might be x
i have depersonalization/derealization but i believe mine comes from anxiety. i smoked weed one night (keep in mind i have been smoking for 2 years) and it triggered a bad panic attack and nothing has felt real since. this was back in September, it’s now January. i feel better most of the time but whenever i’m at work it’s usually the worst. i also smoke weed A LOT less, but i’m guessing i should quit altogether? and i also stopped smoking cigarettes and nicotine related products. also, is chest pain and sharp abdominal/chest pains normal from anxiety? because i can’t get out my mind or something may be internally wrong with me..
Happens att the time
I feel like this all the time. When I look at myself in the mirror I see the body of someone who isn’t me at all
I've been experiencing derealization symptomes relatively often, but it wasn't usually very strong. But what I realized after watching this video is that I get both depersonalization and derealization symptomes when I have to speak in front of other people, for example during a presentation in school.
I'd get super stressed about it, but then when I had to go up there and actually start the presentation, the world around me felt like in a dream. I knew that I was actually up there giving a presentation, but my brain was telling me that nothing matters because it's just a dream and I can simply wake up. I also never really remember any of it (but that's quite common with other people who are scared of public speaking), and if I did remember anything, it was looking at the people, everywhere was dark and there was this imaginary light shining in my face. The other thing is that I sometimes remembered watching myself give the presentation like I was just a ghost floating above the other people. It was really strange.
After the presentation was over, I would often get a panic attack, I'd be crying, my hands would be shaking for like the next hour or so and I'd have all of the classic symptoms like my heart beating fast and hyperventilation. I always found it so strange when people would just tell me that if I practiced public speaking, I'd get better at it eventually. Like, how could I get better at it when it's not even me talking? I would try to do better presentations or learn from other people's constructive criticism, but I wasn't really the one giving the presentation…
If I'd been born with this condition, I probably wouldn't even any know better. It's the fact that in childhood, my perception and general senses to my environment were so intricate, that its almost unbearable to live today in comparison. Everything is just automatic, speaking to people in a programmed way, going where I need to go, all my muscles seem to move on their own, and its more complex than just saying "I'm trapped in my head." It's more like life became 2D, when you know there are 3D, 4D, 5D, even 6D but you cannot feel or reach them. I don't know how to cure it, but I did find some things which worsen it for me. Looking at a phone or computer screen for too long, being in a crowd or large city, and loud noises like shouting. Some things that lessen it for me are; taking deep, quick breaths, stopping all physical and mental work to focus on the present, preferably in a garden, smelling rosemary (I know its weird) and just trying to realize the slow passing of time in general seems to help.
I went through depersonalization as a teen. Didn’t know there was a name for it. It felt like I was floating above or beside my body. It would come and go. Very strange.
I've dealt with this for over half a decade now, I dont even really remember when it started. But I tend to almost always feel a slight disconnect to reality, sometimes I'm fully present tho. And sometime I have really bad moments where I feel like the room I'm in is floating in space, or that my body isnt real, or that I'm in a simulation. Its hard to describe how depersonalization works for me, I always feel like my emotions and thoughts are just me lying to myself, I always feel like my body is a robot and I'm in my head looking out thru my eyes. My body always feels hazy. And I know what I look like but it's like my brain is playing telephone because when I look in the mirror I never really look quite right, I never really look like me. The passage of time also feels really skewed to me, either it doesn't exist or it's a rollercoaster going so fast that I can't properly prepare myself for anything. It takes me a really long time to mentally prepare myself for a whole lot of things and if I dont my anxiety goes thru the roof. Since I'm almost constantly dissociated I have a very poor memory
I randomly googled one days hands don’t feel real symptoms and found these disorders this explains
WHAT HELPED ME OUT
One of my friend showed me your channel, and i really appreciate your works, that's why i leave this comment, and because you encourage us too.
This in not a success story by now, but getting better again. So for me it was the combination of more things, yoga, meditation, and my interest to be free. I have good genetics so my body easily become strong what makes me more easily involved in sports or making exercise, but in the beginning it was very hard. In my opinion it is good to move everyday, but I guess strong physical efforts make us feel our body sensations more and when you sweat, feel the pain it is grounding. Helps you out from your mind.
So maybe this is extreme, but Astanga yoga is the most intense yoga, you have to learn a serial and in the end do it 6 days/week. I did and my perception of the world became totally fine. During the lessons sometimes it was awkward i was crying, and rejecting the helpers… my teacher told me he was thinking to drop me out. I was lucky he didn't. I learnt after being awkward I can go back again, new day, new chance…
During the practice your mind just align you all shit, but you have to continue… and in the end you learn how to not grasp those problems, just go through out… like you are in an emergency situation and you have to get out you can't stop cause there is too much danger…
Cause i think to get to this point to feel the whole world unreal… just look at the beauty and feel it so empty, it is infinitely painful… you had to go through some stuff in your past life. So there are many ways these days which are offering us to get out from our destructive thinking, to make an order in our head and win on the mind.
I am coming back from a very very deep dive into the role of the victim, so I encourage everybody to take responsibility NOW! As it is mentioned in this video Cognitive Behavior Therapy can be a solution to make you understand better where you stuck, where you trapped in your thinking. There are still discounts on the Udemy, i can offer Kain Ramsay's courses. (The Fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or The NLP Confidence & Self Esteem Breakthrough Programme)
I hope this was a bit helpful for some people!
Thanks Dr. Marks for your works.