hats off to you for surviving for 10 years and congratulations for your recovery. All of us fellow sufferers are true embodiment of how strong the will to live can be.

I've had this since I was 4, I'm 37 now! I had extreme childhood trauma, I was sh*t in the face with an Ak-47, drive by. I was also s*xually abu*ed by my 16 year old male cousin when I was 4-5 years old, I was ab*sed physically by parents, I've had pure o ocd, and ptsd, since I was 5, then later at 19, was diagnosed with sle lupus and fibromyalgia! I saw videos on here that said ocd causes this Disassociate disorder. 😢 I'm glad yours stopped. ❤ I'll keep praying for mine, and others who still suffer. 🙏🏾 ❤

I’ve sent this to my family to try to explain what’s going on for me. It literally hits all the nails on the head!

It’s been 10 years for me too, and I’ve been looking for someone who has had this incredibly disorienting experience. It’s cathartic to hear someone describe it from the perspective of someone who’s been through it. Thank you. 🙏

I am in tears. I'm going thru this for months after a traumatic event and was having lapses in memory and thought I was losing my mind! The going to the room and forgetting what just happened thing/bursts of what feels like my brain fizzing out and brain fog/forgetfulness. I didn't know it was part of dpdr. Thank you❤

I’ve been in constant dissociation for 10 years too. This is the first thing I’ve ever seen that was actually helpful, and extremely so. Honestly thankyou so much wtf

You have no idea how helpful this video was to me. I'm a 26 year old girl living in Sweden and I've struggled with derealisation, anxiety and depression for about 7 years and never really knew what it was I was going trough.The only thing I knew was that what I was feeling stopped me from finding a job, going to school some days and even not being able to leave my house as I was so scared I would "loose my mind" in public all off a sudden. Derealisation is not yet commonly known here in Sweden so I've been really finding it sooo tough to express my feelings to practically anyone even tough my mental state has gotten in the way of so many different opportunities in my life. To know that I am not alone, and that there is someone out there that can relate to me makes me tear up. I'm so incredibly grateful you made this video, I can't even describe it with words. Thank you.

Holly shit dude I'm 28 and after getting high off weed and having a panic attack, I finally realized what was going on. This has been increadibly help ful.

I’m only 18, I’ve been going through this for years without knowing. I thought this was just how I was as a person, thank you for opening up my mind and heart to realize that these thoughts and feelings aren’t who I really am.

I also get these waves of bad feelings like as if something awful is about to happen come out of no where, it’s the worst

Beyond grateful you are making these videos!

Great job, thank you for having the courage to share your experience and what you learned from it!

Thanks for the video Rumzi!

thank you for existing, love the way you talk and explained, i can finally make sense of my experiences because of you

The best explanation of the condition I’ve seen. Great job

This is very very valuable information. You are contributing so much to the world with this video. Thank you

I experienced this for at least 6 months. I was depressed and had no way of expressing it. I used to call it the "am I really here feeling". It is horribly frightening and upsetting. So glad it finally went away and I cant recall how that happened. But I do fear the return...thanks for sharing

Best video re all this on UKposts. Thank you.

Best video on dissociation I have seen thus far. I have had this issue for 20 years and for the first time in years you gave me hope.

Your video and the whole of the the presentation was very good!! I found this very helpful! I will be sharing your video with others who suffer with DP/DR!!!

Bro your amazing and I love you. I literally was just looking for someone who had these same symptoms and now I can relate so much. Thanks a million!!

Thank you so much for putting in the effort to create a holistic video on the topic! Excellently explained with clarity of articulation. Subscriber #24

I've had it for 14 years nonstop. At this point I do not care. I do not have any anxiety or depression and have managed to live with it and enjoy my life. This is something I will have for the rest of my life

Thank you sincerely for making this seminar free of charge for us suffering to take part of. You bring up a lot of general and important facts surrounding dpdr. The solution you propose is accurate as well. I personally don’t see focusing on and relieving past trauma as a solution though. Trauma was what started my anxiety, depression and dpdr but it’s something I’ve overcome in time. I believe mainly in correcting the automatic response your body produces to external and internal stressors. Acceptance and allowance has been major for me in my journey so far and made it so much more easy to deal with. A lot of the problem in this is ironically yourself being too emotionally caught up in the symptoms. I’d call myself almost recovered since I’ve started to get longer breaks from these symptoms and I’m most convinced that I will recover completely eventually. My main problems still is lack of memory, brainfog and mental fatigue. Not so much detachment. I am sure though that those will also clear with time.

The world needs more videos like this one! This is so well done 👍 Love it Do yoga and watch more videos like this. Let's heal ourselves. Let's create a beautiful world together

very well done video. i think its a very good set up to get ideas for might be your personal cause and what you can do. yoga helped me a lot too. living alone can be detrimental if you tent to isolate. getting the right therapist is not easy. medication made it worse for me. 8 years now. with around 40 moments without dp/dr. triggered by an LSD overdose. wish i d known that beforehand. but my life was bound to crash. anyway i wish each and every sufferer the best and the strength to go through it. to keep fighting. find things that help you. dont compare yourself to others. having basically reality taken away, well basically anyways, makes it very hard to live a happy semi normal life.

Congratulations on coming through everything. And thank you so much for taking the time in sharing your knowledge, it has been a big help. God bless.

I've always known that the reason of it is just being done with reality, I've always felt unsafe and that I need to escape it. So I'd say the main focus to heal is to create safe experiences for yourself more and more everyday. I deeply appreciate your effort to make this video and that you've published it for free.. This is going to save my life. Thank you!

At least someone is doing this seminar for free. Thank you very much you really help alot of is esp the way you explain things in details and on top of that what to do to help.God bless you

I am suffering for 20 years.I am living in a toxic family.now i found the cause of my DPD.I can remember my childhood trauma .this gives me relief.thank you so much .

half way in. amazing video and explanation. thank you.

This is an amazing explanation of the DPDR I've been going through for 7 years now. Thank you for the video, I will use it to show mental health workers what I am experiencing

This was so helpful. Thank you so much.

Thank you for making easy to understand and you are 💯 correct 👍🏽 "liked"

Very good video, well explained, very informative and reassuring. Thanks and keep up the good work !

Glad that after 3 years I can see I’m almost out of it. It’s slowly going away. Starting to smile more and enjoy life more

Best video brother thanks I will apply it I learned a lot subscribed...💕💖

You are so....underrated bro i will watch all of your videos 😊

10 years.. you are a soldier

Just diagnosed. This is exactly how I have been living for the past 33 years! 🙏💝🙏

My God! My whole life I have been struggling with this. Recently lost my mother... it's been 2 months. I handled it well initially but lately my symptoms have been going worse. Finally it makes sense. At least I recognise what's happening with me. God bless you for making this video!

That was gold man, i relate to so much of what you said...i "only" have dr but pretty bad, it gradually came on during childhood when my parents separated and i was changing homes every week while they despised each other. Perfect recipee for dissociating from the external world....its so hard to reduce the dr...but i guess it all boils down to safety. I absolutely feel a constant sense of threat plus i have a tendency to obsess over things, including the symptoms, like crazy...im working on it tho..

You are amazing! And I appreciate you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much.

10 yr sufferer as well. Hearing you mention all the symptoms makes me realize the kind of hell it has been.

you give us all hope thank you so much...

this is a good video, I will share it around !

Bro this is so accurate. Omg 😔😪

a really helpful video thank you

This is so helpful and the information is very well explained. I've had DP/DR for over 10 years and have made good progress in that time with meditation and noticing where my anxiety is triggered. Healing starts with acceptance and a greater awareness of your body. You can train yourself with meditation to really feel grounded within your body and this changes it from being terrible to being completely liveable. Breathing exercises are a shortcut to reducing anxiety, and another important factor is noticing muscle tension in your body. I can almost guarantee that all those suffering with DP/DR will have lots of tension in their shoulders / neck / jaw / head and pelvic floor. The more you notice the tension in your body and then relax the muscles, the less anxious you will feel, and you will break the cycle of anxiety. One more point is underlying conditions that you may not be aware of such as Autism, OCD and ADHD, which can exacerbate anxiety. Look at the symptoms for these to work out if it's possible you may have it or not.

Thank you so much! I'll be using this. You had it for a decade so I trust you fully. I read the DPmanual and it was basically "bro just distract yourself 24/7" which wouldnt work since ive been ok with dpdr for years and have lived normalish and have had two events worsening it. Ill do therapy for the childhood trauma, continue with thought and emotion awareness, mindfulness of surroundings, and start the ones you talked about. Ive made it improve a little bit before from mindfulness and forgetting but damn now that it is worse idk how long itll take (4.5 years btw), atleast a year probably? stop the stimulation too to make mindfulness easier and cut down aversion.

Amazing Very well explained

I’ve been having the dissociative adaptation for like 5 months now. I can’t express how much all of this is helping me, I’m making notes side by side, writing positive to myself and writing key points from the video and the emotions I feel.. I can’t thank you enough I just hope I get better

Greetings from Russia! Thank you for the video, I found it at the forum. Your advice is so helpful, I started working with psychologist recently and then found this content. I keep a diary. I think breathing and meditation is what I lack in the process of recovery, definitely should try.

I’ve been dealing with this for the last year and a half primarily while driving on the freeway. I understand that I need to relax, accept it, acknowledge it and just be present to feel what I’m going through.

I’ve experienced depersonalisation and derealisation for 2 years now.. it causes anxious attacks during the night and in darkness and also some sort of depression. I’ve never really felt in touch, I have a few times but that’s mainly in sunlight. As a person who knows how it feels, I apologise you had to experience it for so long but I also appreciate everything you’ve been through to help us. I’m still going to try and get psychological help, but I’m going listen to your tips. And I just flowed with my emotions just now and I feel better. (I just wished this permanent headache would go away). Thanks youuuu so so so so much, hope you’re good and well and only on the path to success.

Im jealous of people who have had it a few months or yrs only and can remeber a life before it.... ive had this as long as i can remeber in my 45 yrs of life....... cant ever remeber a single time i felt happy, love, joy, elation, only anger.

my boyfriend has been having this symptom for around 6 years. he says that it happened out of nowhere. he has no trauma, no depression, and no anxiety. he doesn’t even know what anxiety feels like. he explains his symptoms as following: - it feels like you get into a fight or flight mode, but you are stuck with that mode and it doesn’t turn off - feels like you are out of it, and can’t be in the moment fully - has foggy vision - some days are harder then the others, especially when you are stressed due to hard work, or lack of sleep - it sometimes causes you to not fall asleep easily, and get sleep paralysis doctors say that it could be anxiety disorder, but i’ve researched that you can get symptoms of anxiety even though you don’t have anxiety. doctors assumed that he has anxiety disorder, but he really doesn’t have that. they tried to put him in mental health hospital and we don’t even have money for it. good thing he wasn’t put in one. we also researched that lack of vitamin B12 can also cause this. so we are trying to get the vitamin supplement and if that doesn’t work, he will get vitamin shots. hoping that it works. you know you are desperate when you look towards God to help you. we even talked about going to church, because what if this is a work of devil. (sounds crazy but i swear we are desperate)

This is awesome, also reaffirms everything I already knew. I think an important aspect of recovering is not only following every single guideline you’ve laid out, but following them constantly enough to override the deeply engrained habits that stem from the trauma. Sticking with it for the long run rather than only doing some, or only trying these for a few weeks or months. Once you create a strong habit of creating that safe mental and external environment, THAT’S when you start to see results because your brain has proof that it can let go because the threat is either gone or you know you can now handle it when it presents itself. ❤️

I’m glad you recovered! I got it 2 months ago and everyday i cry about it because i’m scared that i’ll go crazy or forget everything... i just wanna feel normal again

I have watch 100's of these video's on dp/dr and you are the only one that really gets to the point of why this is happening and how to really address getting over it. I've had dp/dr for 34 years 24/7. Starting seeing a therapist doing EMDR about 8 weeks ago. Addressing trauma's and am seeing some help for the first time. I relate to everything you said about how you felt. I'm 70 now and so want out of this. I have to learn to deal differently about the stress in my life and the people who are causing these stress's, since there is no way to just leave.

Very good video!

My parents were not divorced but they fought constantly. They were basically enemies who lived together. I think divorced or not, the absence of a secure positive parental marriage is damaging for children. My detachment symptoms were never as serious as yours so this gives me hope I can overcome. As I child I had two severe illnesses where I nearly died. In both cases I had an out of body experience where I could see my body from the outside. In the second case, I never felt like I went back into my body. Even though I could see like I was looking out normally I feel like I'm following my body around. I think maybe my parents constantly yelling prevented me from recovering from the second episode because I could never relax. I'm 58 years old now and haven't lived with my parents for decades so I don't know why I'm still doing this.

A very lucid and intelligent presentation. Thank you. I've suffered with this at a severe level for 24 years, since a traumatic event. I've lost myself almost entirely. The pain is indescribable. I'm chronically suicidal with it. I feel like I'm posthumous. Terrifying intrusive thoughts. My ex-wife, my child, seem like strangers. I have no feelings for them, and it's agony. Seeing some improvements over the last year. Hell incarnate. Thank you and best wishes.

I’ve had DR 24/7 for 18 years (over half my life now) all because I decided to use psychedelics literally 1 time at a party. I’m so tired. It’s the dumbest thing because you know it’s your body protecting you and you’re just like “Okay, I’m safe. You can stop now” while continuing living life the best you can but it won’t go away.

Hey, fellow 10 plus year sufferer here, this is the best video I've seen on this subject, thank you so much, you truely understand and I'm so happy and proud of you for recovering, it gives me so much faith and hope!

thanks for the video

Thanks Rumzi.

I experience everyone of these, I went from top of my class to one of the bottom people. My teachers always called me to office, called my parents to school etc. I didn't know what it was, I got depression and anxiety and panic attacks . With all the stress over the yrs (13yrs) now, my brain feels weird, my chest is super tight I can take deep breaths. It's awful

Mine started when watching SF or Horror movies at ages like 7 8 9 years old , felt extreme anxiety , plus I got bullied at school and had social anxiety. I'm empathize very quick since forever , get lost inside my head , get sad pretty quick and get hyped up for simple things but NOT like a maniac type of hype

Thank you.

Such an informative video. Thank you so much.

Now I understand what's going on with me (it's been 2 years since I discovered the name of what happened to me, or still happening on and off ). It started when I was 13 or 14 and lasted for mor than 10 years, I couldn't focus or on school or concentrate on anything in my life, I was always scared that I was going mad, couldn't tell no one, I always lived with panics and not sleeping all night, never had enough of sleeping, I was afraid that I could hurt people! Now, I have a lot of stress in my life, so the feeling is coming and going. It's tiring! Reading Qur'an and praying helps me to recover.... Now, it's been few days that I am living in it again.

I have been struggling with derealization for 14 years. My German therapists never explained it to me, nor did they tell me I have C-PTSD. Although I still feel detached, with all your help and sharing, I have become hopeful. Thank you, everyone! And thanks to chat gpt, which explained me my state of mind in 1 min....

I experienced a week of clarity when I stopped my DP/DR here earlier this month. After that week, my emotions and everything I was coping with before needed to be dealt with and validated. it really is hard to deal with these things but I am so glad someone brought this to light!

I'm in your position man when I was 19 I got deperseonalized from a really bad mushroom experience I didn't know what what wrong with me years ago im 33 now and still suffer from dp a lil bit I mean I feel better but I'll never feel like my old self. It used to be so bad for me I borderline thought that my mushroom experience turned me schizophrenic because there were multiple times I would see people that would vanish and hear auditory hallucinations. I was so mind fried that no one around me understood what was going on with me and I lost almost everything. lost all my friends and turned into an alcoholic because alcohol was the only thing to relax me other than prescription medication which doctors never gave me. I was put on seroquel but all that did was make me a little tired but my mind was still going 100mph. I lost over 10 years of my life stuck in a really bad mental state I even tried killing myself a couple times.

mind blowing

I’m emotionally numb/anhedonia. I can still feel stressed out or cry. My derealization and brain fog left somewhat but I’m still stuck. Good informative video. Glad you recovered

I’ve felt dull and like everything feels like a dream since I was In the 4th grade ,around that time me and my mother was being abused . I just hope I can get over it. I done graduated high school and still feel fuzzy

I have both of these for 6years. I removed alcohol 7yrs ago. Then started two weeks ago because I couldn’t cope anymore. Ha. Silly me! It’s better to have these illness that damage myself further. Detached people need love. Clean food. Sleep. Lots and lots of love and touch.

You are an Angel

Thank you!!!

Another great video! Thanks. I’ve realized I have some pretty strong childhood trauma, in addition to genetic depression. These suggestions for handling stress make a lot of sense. How are you doing now? Can you give us an update? :)

Thank you for this. I have been finding it hard to accept the feelings long enough for them to subside. I have a better week or two, but then my positive attitude wanes. How do you keep the faith for long enough to see marked results?

great video

Did you have anhedonia or emotional numbness? These are the worst symptoms for me. It started with just derealization but now have DP and DR along with a ton of other mental health symptoms. It’s been 3 years like this for me.

Thank you!

And Pray 🙏

Hi, thanks for this, it is very well presented and explained. I have derealisation only which has been there 24/7 for nearly 2 years. My symptoms are all visual, the environment looks really weird, I can’t perceive depth and everything looks flat like I am looking at a flat screen tv or a painting. You talked about different situations affecting your dpdr and you found your symptoms changed if your anxiety decreased. However as much as I have tried to relax and not be stressed, the visual symptoms have not changed at all or varied in the last 2 years, they are constant and do not change from day to day. Does this mean I am unlikely to recover if nothing has improved or changed in all that time? I am losing hope and am struggling to live like this every day. Thanks for the advice, the video was very informative and I am so happy you recovered from this, I hope that will happen to me one day where I can live a normal life again.

I have been in a chronic state of DP/DR for 8 years and 10 months, not one moment of relief. I sometimes think about how much I can’t remember what it felt like before it hit that day. After 10 years, were your first breakthrough moments super obvious?? I believe mine is from a vestibular issue and I am working on healing now...I can’t wait for relief! :) Thank you for this video!

Thank you so much

became fearless , artist and researcher in dpdr .due to a timeline shift ..but dpdr is most awful thing in long run......

Im 34 years old and I was in a car accident last year. 8 months later thats when I developed a panic attack and depersonalization, 3-D x rays indicate that I have developed a reverse curved neck from weak ligaments caused by the whiplash. I believe this may be also the reason why some may develop DP or DR.

I can overcome dpdr cause of existential thoughts and questions like I can’t just relax not knowing answers and being uncertain about everything in the world and it make me feel like I’m going crazy and I just can’t help it

i got this after being sick with Covid. craziest thing ever

I basically have a reverse thanos ring of mental heath issues - just added DPDR to the list. But it’s okay. We will get through this everybody!!!

The reason for this is - high screen time , we feel we are still in the gadget laptop or phone , reducing screentime can reduce it

It gets bad when I’m tired and I have insomnia. I’m scared I’ll wake up with a panic attack 😭

Bro I feel like I have hope now ive been having this for about 3 years now I feel so emotionally numb and detached it’s crazy

My vision is the worst symptom. And brain fog too.

bless u