Depersonalization/Derealization

[Adri]

Great, don't wanna losing quality people over here anymore

Btw, I am an undergraduate psychology student on my fifth semester

Oh that's cool, I was also an undergrad in psychology last year, second semester...

I dropped out because I didn't like the "intellectual cramming" that was happening at my university.

Happy to see someone who really has what it takes to become a great psychologist! Most of my peers there had no real motivation to become a psychologist, it was depressing in some way :p

Everything in your body is connected, your solar and root chakras might be unbalanced. It had been scientifically proven that your gut has control over your brain. Have you been taking any antibiotics lately. Or in your life

Thank you ! Indeed that may be an explanation. I've been experiencing DP/DR for as long as I can remember... No real cause, it's always been there. I got Chronic DP, not Acute DP. And no, no antibiotics intake...

From my research it's psychologically based, dysfunctional family which resulted in weird attachment patterns, and I didn't really develop a healthy sense of identity because of those attachment patterns and more factors (that's an over-simplification but an ok resume)

Do you struggle with anxiety? I've also dealt with depersonalization/derealization. In my experience it comes about when the nervous system is overloaded. It's sort of like a defense mechanism to prevent any more stimulus from wreaking havoc on your body, but the consequence is that numbness or disconnect from reality. Since running EHPRA I've gradually become more connected, but I still have my moments.

I don't. I know DP/DR is in a lot of cases related to Anxiety. In my case from my research it's more based on a dysfunctional family which created Anxiety as a child. A lot of things that happened in my family and in my social life led to a dissociation to defend myself. That's great to see you've been running EPRHA successfully with this issue! I personally ran 2 months of EPRHA followed by a 6-month sub that includes it... Still I got no results. Maybe my issues are more deep rooted than yours (not minimizing your issues of course! just guessing).

I bought a course from a guy who cured himself from DP/DR and I'm going through it at the moment, I'm still in the theoretical part right now, but I really hope the exercises will help me ! If you want the reference I can give it to you via PM, it seems a pretty solid course in my opinion... But would be better for me to go through it and see if it does a difference or not, don't want to make you buy a course that doesn't work haha

Thanks for all your answers, this is a real quality forum with quality members!
Adri