And guess what... I remember reading a post from somebody who said something similar on a DPselfhelp forum and thinking “fuck off, I’m not having this for that long” and being depressed and suicidal after reading that s***.

You don’t “have it” per se for four years, you just feel changed after it. It comes back when I get anxious or start to panic, but I remember the lessons I learnt from the worst wave of it (first month or so). You’ll come out of it better but changed.

This video started my recovery:

And this video was the first thing I watched when I was lost in it:

My comment from 5 years ago or so is still there somewhere. I was f***ing lost. But this video helped as he describes the feeling EXACTLY

I feel this all the time, I did acid consistently since I was 12 so :/

Another thing OP, you will read a lot of comments from people who say s*** like “I’ve been like this for 15 years” and s***. Ignore them. They’re liars. Simple as. You can’t be like that for that long, the human brain doesn’t work like that. What happens is eventually you realise that you have stopped thinking about it and it becomes that “thing”. But you need to drain the fear of it and realise it just a natural part of anxiety. Once you have “it” then you will always be traumatised by it (this period you’re going though now) which triggers the feeling again every now and then, but I starved it of its fear. It’s a genuine trauma that your going through and like any trauma, it leaves a residue. But the fear does go away. You’re still you and it’s not psychosis (psychosis would be easier actually, as at least you don’t question your sanity when you’re actually insane!) it’s just pure anxiety.

make sure you get a lot of cardiovascular exercise OP, and cool it on d**** for a while

That’s what helped me. And once you accept it, the fear dissipates which then, in turn, makes you feel normal again.

Cardio is KEY actually

just had this

had this a lot between the age of 15 and 19, eventually s*** got away

the best way for me to cop with it was benzos, especially valium but ended up being hooked on it, even today im on them

got better cus started not caring about it, easier said then done

stopping smoking helped me a lot

socially f***ed me over on my "teen peak" years, time that i will never get back...

Had this 6 months ago. I'm glad I'm out of that hell hole

cardio is legit the healtiest way to relieve this, very true

i remember being like 16, and the only slight relieve that i had that wasnt a d*** was being with a girl

this really isn’t talked about enough today as weed becomes increasingly popular and legal

alot of kids with underlying mental health issues aren’t aware this could happen to them and it’s so unfortunate

Weed + technology

are you saying the combination of weed and technology is bad for you? curious cause I think its whats making my derealization worse

forreal, half the time I hear about DP it's cause of edibles. Smoking weed regularly never does this to me or anyone I know. It's a rookie mistake but a hard lesson

DPD is life changing when it hits

Yeah, I feel like it has to contribute. Idk about how you but I’m on this phone way too much, detached from real life, experiencing things through threads and comments ...

yeah no doubt I agree for sure. I definitely need to find ways to limit my time on my phone/computer, I need more irl leisure activities

Woat feeling. Got this bad after my final time taking LSD. Never gonna use again

Only had it 2 days. Just stop eating/smoking that stuff for a bit

I actually love that feeling

To be like detached from my „self“