Adam's Depersonalization Recovery Story (2024)
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2024
- 03:18 How DPDR Started
05:07 NOT a Massive Panic Attack
07:13 "Like I had taken a strong edible"
09:50 Getting a Brain Scan
12:28 "I'll celebrate when DP goes away!"
13:50 Fear of Airports + Sunsets
16:33 Setting Yourself Recovery "Tasks"
19:35 Chronic Exhaustion
23:44 "You feel utterly alone"
24:19 Finding the word "Depersonalization"
26:36 It doesn't matter how DPDR happened
30:07 "Nobody at the hospital mentioned anxiety"
33:03 Feelings of DPDR after recovery
36:10 "It's good to have anxiety under my belt"
37:00 Adam's Lowest Point
41:03 How Did Recovery Start?
43:35 Post Malone's DPDR
45:10 "I didn't think about DPDR once!"
47:28 Post Malone's DPDR (Part 2)
51:06 Logic's Song About Depersonalization
53:15 Speaking to a Therapist about DPDR
54:55 "I can't remember what normal felt like"
56:50 Experiencing DPDR (briefly) is normal!
59:42 The Depersonalization Manual
1:01:07 Can you REALLY get back to normal?
1:05:46 Advice For DPDR Sufferers
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Adam (23) developed Depersonalization Disorder last year, triggered in part by anxiety he experienced while coming off a supplement. He struggled with DPDR and its symptoms for about 8 months. As he described the symptoms to me in a coaching session: "I felt disconnected, my vision seemed off -- It was almost like I had taken a very strong edible!"
Fortunately Adam has since made a complete recovery! In this interview Adam tells me all about his experience with and recovery from Depersonalization Disorder.
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Disclaimer: Please note that the medical information contained within this video is not intended as a substitute for consultation with a professional physician and is not a recommendation of specific therapies.
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Hello everyone!❤️ It all started a month ago when i was going to take a shower & suddenly had very strange & scary feeling that i'm in a dream and life is not real anymore! I was alone at home... And from that moment everything changed! I began to think about it non stop! I dont know how to cope with this awful, stressful feeling! I'm very joyful, friendly, kind and active person but its already 1 month that i forgot myself, seems that i lost my normal life🙈 I experience this very first time in my life before it i had only intrussive thoughts which i could eliminate! Now i'm powerless.
I dont know whether i could describe right my feelings or not but wanted to share it with you all! Now i want to bring my normal life back but have no idea how to do that! Please give me your advices!
lol. I love these videos but i think theyre slowing my recovery down because it makes me remember that i have it 😅
Hi Shaun. Im a teenager and 5 moths ago I got DPDR that I thought/did recover from. A month ago I got a panic attack that made the DPDR come back and I thought that I was going crazy and that I was in some dream or hellusination. I havn't complitly recoverd yet but I get more and more moments where I forget about the DPDR and I just want you to know that you help my so much. Thank you
I need help
Thanks for your comment and I'm delighted to hear you're doing so well! 😊
Hi Shaun! I have a question , if people are able to recover after 4 or 5 months from dp-dr that’s mean that nervous system don’t need years to calm down right , because for me the last to go are dp/dr
Hi Shaun! Can you talk about dream flashbacks, or memories without context or have a lot of incoherent thoughts? Is like the brain is not processing things properly. There are a lot of symptoms that I dindt find with facility in any video.. and that has been very frustrating.
Hi Sean , I’m currently suffering from DPDR and have been for the last 7 months and it started from a bad panic attack from weed. One other thing that I think has been keeping the cycle of anxiety going is that I use testosterone and i think it may be over stimulating my nervous system and throwing my body of balance . Would you say coming off of the testosterone and fixing my hormones would help with the anxiety?
Shaun, sometimes when I’m calm, I can sometimes think of some of my special interests, but others are further from reach. One of the big ones for me was towards a group of content creators that actually helped pull me out of feeling depressed during the last time i struggled with DP. For some reason, I feel like I can conjure up at least a twinge of my past interests for other things like certain video games, or my love for nature and science, but this one interest, which has become a major component of my life since my last instance of DP, just feels totally gone.
I’m scared of losing it forever. It sounds dumb, but it means a lot to me. It’s like it’s become a joke where it used to be. I can sort of think of a lot of my other interests, but this one, why this one? Am I just convincing myself that it’s what’s going on? Am I just lying to myself about it? It feels like anything that happened to me since my last 3 years of recovery and growth was wiped away. Almost as if I’m back to being the person I was BEFORE or maybe during my first bout of DP. I hate this so much. It hurts so much. I can’t lose touch with it. I can’t just give it up.
It feels like my life’s been thrown away. Even when I don’t feel anxious, even when I feel calm, that interest is just… not there. It’s only been 3 weeks. Less than a month! How can I feel like I’ve regressed so far in so little time?
Hi Shaun, Im doing a lot better now with DR, but sometimes I'm not sure if I'm completely back to normal haha. How will I know when I'm really back to normal? It's hard to tell
Read this carefully, I think you'll find it vey helpful 😊www.dpmanual.com/articles/what-does-depersonalization-recovery-feel-like/
Hello Shaun! Thank you so much. I'm from Russia. I watch your videos using a subtitle translator. They help me thank you. Can you tell me if I can buy a DP manual from Russia and how to pay? Also do you have courses? Is there a translation of the courses into Russian and how to purchase them?
Hi there! 😊 Yes, The DP Manual comes with a complete Russian translation included 👍 You can purchase here: www.dpmanual.com/purchase/
same, i have this horrible feeling since 1-month and 2-weeks every thing seems like dream even me i’m leaving in Germany bro😢
@@burhanosman4655 Bro, I've been in this state for eight years. And I would now return everything back to be in this state in the second month. When I just started DP, if I had found this channel and Shaun, I would have been cured in the second month. I would just be calm about this condition and give up, I would live on enjoying myself and this condition would go away, but life in Russia is harsh and it didn’t work out that way and I drove myself into a circle. Don’t be afraid of this condition and it will go away
Hello, is it possible , that you have DP symptoms mixed with something else? I took a very strong dose of weed, which normally had a positive strong higher mind and senses effect on me but i went super paranoid. At one time it was so strong, that i blacked out watching a video. Before i blacked out i could feel, that something was moving in my brain close to the ear, like a waterwheel. Next day i woke up and i was super paranoid and had to analyse and question everything i di
Did, just like with OCD or Borderline. Now, three years later, I get those DP or DR flashback Episodes, when I have too much stress. Sadly I cant cope with the stress all the time. Any tipps how to deal with the Problem. It feels like, with DPDR I have slim to none resilience for stress and it always brings me back in the loop:(
hi shaun, i just wanted to ask i feel my dpdr getting so much better then it was. ive had it for a month now and am on the road to recovery but sometimes hearing people say that it never goes away or that it can come back can trigger my anxiety so how do i help remove that fear
Don't worry, it does go away 😊
www.dpmanual.com/articles/is-depersonalization-permanent/
And to answer your question about it coming back, read this carefully:
www.dpmanual.com/articles/does-depersonalization-come-back/ 😊
The fear of it goes away bro. It doesn't actually scare you anymore when it tries to come back. It's like when you were a kid and you were scared of the sun exploding or something but then you realized that wasn't going to happen for millions of years from now. As a kid though you didn't know and you would get scared. Its the same with DPDR, you're scared of it now because you're barely starting to understand what it is. It takes time to realize its nothing dangerous and it takes time to truly believe that. Its just a heightened state of awareness because our anxiety is very high and we tend to look internally for answers. Over time when you start to realize that this isn't something to fear it gets weaker and weaker and weaker and it does not return. I had it for a long time because I didn't understand it but now I'm back to normal and when it has tried to come back twice in the past it lasted literally for a few minutes and it was gone because I realized i was just tired and needed to get some rest. I promise over time this will all go away and you'll be a much stronger person because of it.
Hi shaun I have been dealing with dpdr since December after a bad weed experience and I feel like it’s getting worse my family feels like there strangers I feel like I’m not real I feel like I’m losing my mind I feel like I’m not in control of my own body I have bad intrusive thoughts 24/7 , what are some tips on getting better I’ve tried medication I’ve tried doing to therapy and going to the hospital I’ve tried Meditation , what are some things you think I should do ?
buy the dp manual
Don't worry bro I feel the same it's felt like I recovered but so I got different felling and unexplainable feeling and thoughts and feelings like I'm going crazy bro and I don't kn what's happening we should just pray bruv I kn it feels scary brov but we ok it may not feel like it and it feels way different from dpdr but we ok
Exactly how I feel currently and started in December too, I feel like I’ll wake up one of these days and I won’t remember/recognize my family and it honestly has me on edge and can’t stop thinking about it. 😢
Hello everyone!❤️ It all started a month ago when i was going to take a shower & suddenly had very strange & scary feeling that i'm in a dream and life is not real anymore! I was alone at home... And from that moment everything changed! I began to think about it non stop! I dont know how to cope with this awful, stressful feeling! I'm very joyful, friendly, kind and active person but its already 1 month that i forgot myself, seems that i lost my normal life🙈 I experience this very first time in my life before it i had only intrussive thoughts which i could eliminate! Now i'm powerless.
I dont know whether i could describe right my feelings or not but wanted to share it with you all! Now i want to bring my normal life back but have no idea how to do that! Please give me your advices!
Does Depersonalization also bring heavy breathing? I’ve been having trouble breathing and i’ve went to the doctor and they think it’s anxiety which is caused by depersonalization. Does anyone have any tips to stop the heavy breathing?
It's very common for breathing to be affected by all anxiety-based conditions 😊 www.healthline.com/health/shortness-of-breath-anxiety
Hello, i have a bad weed experience then dpdr attack, also having palpitation like im gonna die my feet and hands are shaking i was very anxious that time, my friends try to relax me then dpdr go away suddenly like 10seconds then came back again and now im having it 1month and 1week 24/7, i dont feel real, i cant sleep, my vision was blurry, cant focus, it was terrifying, i told this symtomps from my parents and they believe with me but i was very lonely and think i was in a dream, i could not feel tha happiness inside the reality 😔😓😭
Com o tempo você vai melhorando. Tenha calma
Takile it easy
I also have dpdr for 10 months and still have it but with time this symptoms will decrease .and we are stronger we can exist from this horrible disease 💪🏻
@@none3166 eu sinto há uns 8 meses também. Já não me incomoda mais. Trabalhei muito para sentir-me assim.
Not to scare you but mine got worse but I feel better now course I decided to convert to islam true me U Will feel better
I am 14 and mine almost completely disappeared when I stop thinking about it so much and stopped being scared of it
My DPDR has made me dislike cooking as I used to do in the past, I don’t eat 3 times daily anymore because it triggers my Dpdr every time.The funniest part is that I feel fake but I feel really hungry when I’m starving
რატომ მაქვს საკუთარ თავთან გაუცხოება? მარტო ვერ ვრჩები რადგან თითქოს ჩემი თავი მაშინებს.
Nice video I always looking forward to peoples recoverys gives me hope
Your story reminded me of this movie I seen couple years back called NUMB it’s with Matthew Perry the guy from friends anyways he gets DPDR from smoking a joint & the whole movie is about dpdr if anyone wants to see it
I've seen that film, it's good! 😊
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Hey I had dpdr for like two months and ofter that it felt like something else like every week the feeling change it's so scary I thought it can't turn to something else but it did and it's so scary pls help
Hey, thanks for your comment 😊 I know DPDR can be scary but just remember that it’s a natural reaction to stress and anxiety, and people experience it all the time. The National Institute on Mental Illness estimates that up to 75% of people experience at least one depersonalization / derealization episode in their lives. It's part of your brain's natural defence mechanism and usually it only lasts a few seconds or minutes at a time. It's only when it's focused on as a separate problem (feeling like you're going crazy / in a dream etc) that it can turn into a feedback loop with the anxiety that caused it in the first place. But no matter what caused it or how long you've had it, you can always switch it off completely by stopping that anxious feedback loop. Make sure to carefully read through all the articles and info on my website at www.dpmanual.com and my book The Depersonalization Manual.
And if you would like to speak to a medical professional please don't hesitate to do so. I would recommend finding an anxiety specialist if possible as they will likely be more familiar with DPDR 👍
Ok thx U so much my god bless you
And it doesn't feel like dpdr anymore I feel scared sad depression I just wanna feel normal again
გამარჯობათ❤მე მაქვს საკუთარ თავთან გაუცხოება და გაივლის? მაშინებს ძალიან. ჩემს თავთან კომუნიკაცია აღარ მაქ. რაღაც მომენტებში ვერ ვხვდები ვინ ვარ.❣
Don’t worry, feelings like that are super common with DPDR. I know they can be frustrating but they will fade away and stop as you recover 😊 www.dpmanual.com/about/do-i-have-depersonalization-disorder/
I wonder if DP/DR is due to a neurotransmitter imbalance in some people. Mine started at the same time as I got severe constipation so I wonder if I have some gut issues that are effecting my neurotransmitters.
Anxiety makes your overthink.
I'm 29 years old and I've for 15 years in depersonalization. My memory is getting less and less. I feel so bad that I think lava is falling on my body. What should I do, help.
Don't worry, it doesn't matter what caused it, how long it’s lasted, or whether it’s been 24/7 or episodic, you can always switch DPDR off completely by stopping the anxiety that's causing it 😊 Read this carefully: www.dpmanual.com/articles/how-long-does-depersonalization-last/
And also, concentration + memory issues are very common with DPDR 😊 I know they can be frustrating but they will fade away and stop as your recovery continues: www.dpmanual.com/articles/depersonalization-and-memory-loss/
Was it caused by weed?
Should I stop taking anxiety/depression medication? I've heard it can cause dp/dr
Hi Trevor -- I'm not a medical professional so can't give you specific recommendations re medication. But of course if you're considering coming off medication please make sure to consult your doctor first.
And please read this article, I think you'll find it useful: www.dpmanual.com/articles/can-medication-cure-depersonalization/
Been having this for the last week, im in despair, don't know what to do, i feek like im in a dream, drowsy and slow, please help me
Hey Bruna, thanks for your comment. I know DPDR can be scary but just remember that it’s a natural reaction to stress and anxiety, and people experience it all the time. The National Institute on Mental Illness estimates that up to 75% of people experience at least one depersonalization / derealization episode in their lives. It's part of your brain's natural defence mechanism and usually it only lasts a few seconds or minutes at a time. It's only when it's focused on as a separate problem (feeling like you're going crazy / in a dream etc) that it can turn into a feedback loop with the anxiety that caused it in the first place. But no matter what caused it or how long you've had it, you can always switch it off completely by stopping that anxious feedback loop. Make sure to carefully read through all the articles and info on my website at www.dpmanual.com and my book The Depersonalization Manual.
And if you would like to speak to a medical professional please don't hesitate to do so. I would recommend finding an anxiety specialist if possible as they will likely be more familiar with DPDR 👍
So you also have alienation with your head?
What supplements? Probably pre workouts
My life become a nightmare.my brain is burning.i cant stand anymore.i m for 15 years in depersonalization.please help
Bro it's ok drink cayenne pepper and go to a doctor's to get checked just in case
Looking back this thing can take you to some funny places makes me laugh now
Same 😊😊
@@Dpmanual i dont want to be rude but I laugh at some of the comments because i remember that place it's hilarious
@@iamthefiremanjjim ready to start laughing w yall but right now aint $&?! funny
Absolutely brain aneurysm!!
I thought I had brain damage.😓I still experience dr
Thankfully it's not brain damage or anything like that 😊 www.dpmanual.com/articles/schizophrenia_cancer_depersonalization/
Anybody hear of Jason Hardgrave? He claims to be an expert on this but he charges crazy money for his course, not necessary at all.
I am dying of depersonalization.my brain is burning.somebody help
I know DPDR can be scary but just remember that it’s a natural reaction to stress and anxiety, and people experience it all the time. The National Institute on Mental Illness estimates that up to 75% of people experience at least one depersonalization / derealization episode in their lives. It's part of your brain's natural defence mechanism and usually it only lasts a few seconds or minutes at a time. It's only when it's focused on as a separate problem (feeling like you're going crazy / in a dream etc) that it can turn into a feedback loop with the anxiety that caused it in the first place. But no matter what caused it or how long you've had it, you can always switch it off completely by stopping that anxious feedback loop. Make sure to carefully read through all the articles and info on my website at www.dpmanual.com and my book The Depersonalization Manual.
And if you would like to speak to a medical professional please don't hesitate to do so. I would recommend finding an anxiety specialist if possible as they will likely be more familiar with DPDR 👍
No you aren't
My brain is burning because of depersonalization please help
Me too, this is so hard !
I feel unreal always, sometimes even when talking and eating it’s like am someone else
My life become hell beacause that damn depersonalization please help
Do u know someone has recovered by laced weed induced dpdr without using medicine or going to therapys i realy dont want to put those antidepressants in me
I did bud, Did it naturally by simply accepting. It took a long time for me because the fear was there but over time it went away. now none of this triggers me or worries me at all. It all goes away you just have to believe that this isnt a bad thing. You go back to normal I promise. Im back to my old self with 0 issues. I took 0 mends and did not get therapy. I followed this channel and Shauns channel as well and it all went away with practice.
@@Zamoxi how long did it take u , do u know what it was laced with. I saw some video about synthetic weed and now i dont know if mine was synthetic or laced
@@Userr368 Although I never found out what it was laced with I can tell you that it was definitely Laced. You can tell when something is off. Your body doesn't just change randomly because youre smoking. Substances tend to cause a certain reaction in our bodies and our natural response is to go into fight or flight due to the unknown of what's happening to us. The time it took me to recover is irrelevant because everybody is different. Just know that whatever you smoked didn't cause permanent damage or anything like that. You still feel out of it and in the DPDR state because you're spending too much time trying to figure out what it could of been. Just let it go and live your life and i promise you the DPDR will go away.
@@Zamoxi im trying , my biggest problem its when its dark outside still after almost 6 months it didnt change a bit . I still go out and try to ignore it but its not getting better.
@@Userr368 every single person that I’ve talked to that has gone through DpDr has some “biggest problem” or they say “the thing for me is” doesn’t matter what you feel man the point is to just let it be there and label it as anxiety and just live your life. This DpDr doesn’t do anything to you but make you feel really weird and uncomfortable but with time it’ll go away. Even if it takes months. For me it took a good year. I questioned and doubted a lot but it’s nothing man fr. DpDr is a liar you are safe and are good bro.
Hey shaun i have this problem for 7 years im happy to found you I have a question before starting treatment I have symptom eyes and I want to know if they are symptoms dp/dr
I can't focus my eyes on anything like i have a block in my eyes
As if I'm not the one who sees
i no longer have that awareness to be able to focus on anything
In short im just the voice in the middle of my head that struggles and analyzes everything in order to wake up
I got into a spiral that I don't know how to get out of
For reference, I woke up 3 times, each time for 20 minutes
I felt like I was dreaming and finally woke up
But after 20 minutes the illness returned
I will eagerly await your response
Thank you so much shaun For all this effort,
you are bringing people back from hell to heaven ✨
Don’t worry Omar, visual symptoms like that are super common with DPDR and will fade away and stop as you recover 😊 www.dpmanual.com/articles/does-depersonalization-affect-vision/
And if you would like to speak to a medical professional please don't hesitate to do so. I would recommend finding an anxiety specialist if possible as they will likely be more familiar with DPDR.
Does anyone eyes feel weird from this like pressure behind them
Headaches + head pressure are a very common symptom of DPDR and all anxiety-based conditions 😊 www.dpmanual.com/articles/depersonalization-exhaustion-and-muscle-pain/
@@Dpmanualdo u think it’s safe for me to drive with this disorder?
@@twilliams4880 Read this, I think you'll find it very useful 😊 www.dpmanual.com/articles/should-you-drive-with-depersonalization/
i know EXACTLY what course hes talking about 😂😂 dislike that guy
Jordan Hargrave?
@@titanoboa333 yesssss 🤣