News of Depersonalization Disorder Forum

You have the answer. You always had.

After a year of suffering from depersonalization I feel I need to tell others about my experience, as well as my thoughts of this topic. Things I am about to write may help, since I have discovered a lot of helpful techniques that helped me personally. Hopefully they will help others as well.

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ...

i've been in an online relationship for 6months with this girl.And I go plan to see her this coming february in 2012.I've been making plans to get married(I plan to move to the US from Pakistan to be with her,that's like 8000miles away,and quite amazing if when you think about it,we've been together for like7months..that's like half a year) and everything,we're almost hitting the 7month mark.The thing is,We've had alot of rough patches and near-breakup ...

Has anyone tried the DP Manual? Any success?

Well, I'm not exactly sure if this is the correct forum section to post this, but it's the closest thing I could find. Here goes:

I am a therian, or at least I feel I am. I envision myself, spiritually and psychologically, as a dog. Siberian Husky to be exact (I wouldn't just call myself a dog if I didn't know which breed). Sure, I'm a teenager, sure, I'm a very psycholgically shaken teenager (what ...

I am aware that I should see a specialist. I am just wondering if anybody has any knowledge on the condition. My symptoms are...

-Vision seems kind of "off" (Especially bad during the day and when I am outdoors)
-Memory/perceptions seem cloudy (I deal with short-term memory loss, and things that happened earlier seem more distant and somehow not in sync)
-Things seem "dreamy" or "foggy" all the time...
-I suffered a panic attack several ...

What happened to the dpselfhelp website with the forum and chat room?????????????

Is sex possible for you with the disorder? More precisely, can you get legitimately excited?

Personally I find I can't attach any sex-related feeling to my body or personality so I'm very rarely aroused and when I am, it's "not about me" but rather about an external fantasy.

Just curious so I can pinpoint my problems and find out if it stems from DD or something else...

Who I am, what I do, not important but what I feel ? very much so.
I feel as if my whole life I've been drifting away, disconnecting from my surroundings by creating fake people and places in my mind. Connecting to these people and places by using whats happening to me and everything around me and then investing my emotions in that vicious illusion. My body an automaton socially saying everything expected and striving, ...

So I decided to make an account after reading some other posts on various forums.. Although I've been on the self help dp and dr forums, I never really posted anything. Currently I am 19 and attend a University as a Sophomore. I am just going to put all of what i've been going through out there and see if anyone knows what the hell is going on with me.Ok, well since about the 6th ...

Long story short, started using psychedelics few months ago, have noticed anytime i trip on salvia tinctures the dissociative effects are starting to last longer, before they only lasted a few hours but eventually started lasting longer and longer until now once i trip i can be somewhat dissociated from reality for about a week.

symptoms during dissociation:
*when i'm not focused on my surroundings or anything to do with the physical world its like ...