I'm trying, but I'm failing

I feel like I'm over DP/DR and that now I'm just stuck with the leftovers. It's weird being human. It's weird seeing from my POV. It's weird that we have family relationships. Why do we have the rules we have? Why do we do the things we do?

Nothing makes me happy because nothing means anything to me. I know that people say the best way to get over DP/DR is to ignore it but I feel like that's not getting over it at all, I feel like that's just forgetting about it. Everything will still continue to be strange, I just won't realize it. I honestly feel like nothing will make sense to me ever again, I feel like I'll never truly feel happy and I feel like I'll never get over how weird it is to be human.

Is this still DP/DR and will I recover? Or am I just a lost cause?

I've had it all my life.


I'm not gonna say that you're gonna recover because I don't know..


I know that I'm goningg to live with this for the rest of my life..

And even when it gets better it's always there and everything is a haze nothing feels real nothing matters everyone is fake...

I know exactly how you feel..

Though I've had dp and dr since I was a small child and I havvee no clue what it's like to feel real or connected to this world.

Do you remember what it was like to feel connected...or has been so long that you've forgotten?

esiuol wrote:...

I think being happy is overrated. Humans are not made to be happy all the time.

esiuol wrote:It's weird that we have family relationships. Why do we have the rules we have? Why do we do the things we do?

Don't overthink this please, there are so many questions that are just a waste of time. I used to think hard about morality and ethics and then it just snapped, think about world freedom without no power to do something is just a waste of time, same about the system, and most $#%^ of the thing called "human experience".

I feel you, I have had DP for almost 7 years not, it started when I was relatively young too so I've had it most of my developing life. I think it has been 3 or so years since I've accepted that I'm probably going to have this the rest of my life, and even though it is extremely unfortunate, there aren't many options. I'm just hoping down the line humanity figures more out about the brain and its processes and somehow can fix this curse we bare. Until then keep on keeping on, try to hold on to the good moments in life as long as possible because they will slip away quickly.

That's exactly what keeps you in the DP circle, trying to figure it out. it becomes obsessive and you will over think everything to an excessive point.
Some things like bipolar obviously shouldn't and probably can't be ignored, but my personal opinion is that constantly keeping yourself busy to try and 'forget' the DP symptoms is quite literally the only cure.
As far as I know there is no cure from medication or much else, it's so so so important to keep yourself busy even if it seems less enjoyable now.