I have been on the upswing of recovery for 10 months now. I can tell you right now that this video is spot on. I battled this for 9 years, always searching for the solution. Finally, once I landed on my 4 therapist and completed a 2 week intensive outpatient program at a local facility, I started to realize that is was the searching that was the problem. This disorder is very much like OCD, in that your obsession comes up and you compulsively try to fix it (googling, reading forums, ruminating, obsessively checking to see if its still there, entertaining "what if" thoughts, etc). Alot of OCD involves physical compulsions (locking door 3 times, etc.) but there is a whole other side to it...MENTAL COMPULSIONS. In a nutshell, the compulsion is anything you do in response to your obsession coming up. ANYTHING! Mental compulsions are where I spent most of my time. Arguing with myself, repetitive/stuck thoughts, always trying to "figure it out".The answer truly is learning to let go and not particularly care. Easier said than done, admittedly. I struggled with this one for a long time. In the end, the thing that worked for me was mindfulness. You HAVE to learn how to disengage from those thought. PERIOD. There is no other answer. I essentially let the thoughts come anytime, but dont entertain them any further than that. They pop up, I immediately go back to what I was doing. For example, If I'm driving a car, I move my attention to what my hands feel like on the steering wheel. If I'm in the shower, I shift attention to what the soap smells like, the water feels/sounds like, etc. At the beginning, it will probably be a constant struggle to continuously move your attention to the present. It will feel fake. You will question yourself and the strategy you are employing. That is just the OCD (doubting disease) at work...trying to get you to try and "figure it out" in your head again. I promise you, there is nothing to figure out. For anyone struggling with this, if any of this resonates with you or sounds like your experience, I urge you to find a qualified therapist that SPECIALIZES in OCD/Anxiety. Its very important to understand what you are doing to keep enabling this disorder. What compulsions are you doing to try and get rid of it. I was surprised at everything I was doing, although they weren't obvious at the time. In the meantime, start learning about mindfulness. Also, I would suggest trying to start a meditation practice to learn the basics of mindfulness, and then try to let it bleed over into your everyday life, not just your daily (10 min) practice. For those interested, I would highly recommend the app: Waking Up (meditation app) by Sam Harris.
Yeah bro I understand it's anxiety but I lowetrd my stress levels and I'm super chill but I went outside today to play some football and I litteraly felt like I was in a dream.I felt like I am just gonna wake up in any moment.No sense of time,forgetting everything and now I'm more ok.For me it lasts around 1 to 2 hours.What to do?
That's the most important work. Once you start to feel safe, you will be able to accept. Once you do that, you'll see that DP/DR though unpleasant is not really harmful. Slowly, you'll stop caring about DP/DR, that's when you actually will stop checking in. Because you'll see that your attention has moved on to something else.
@@supermamaburger106 honestly,i stopped giving it a thought to a point that even if it made me question my existence,i just kept on going w my work.(At times it was hard as hell but WORTH NOT GIVING A DAMN ABOUT).I stopped watching all these videos and made myself v busy with college work.Its not that it just simply ends one day,i still get such episodes out of nowhere while i do my work or am about to sleep.I feel these minor but hard episodes wont go off anytime soon but they dont affect me the way they did earlier
And yet here we are watching video number 790,000 on DPDR and diving into the comment to see if someone has the 10 second fix . Crazy but all toooooo real.
Freaking out this morning that's why I'm watching this video. Took my anxiety medication and now watching this. Starting to feel better now. I'm a new mom so its hard dealing with this while taking care of a baby.
Swamy you've been such an important person during my journey with DP. When I first found your blog, words cannot even describe how comforting it was to find a person who has been in the same "mystery-storm" also called dp. Thank you for your wisdom and support. I am truly able to say that most of my days are dp-free. DP made me to find the person that I had lost. I'm now myself more than ever before and world is really a beautiful place full of mysteries.
Mr swamy. Hope you are good. I am currently experiencing a depersonalization phase and with your videos i can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Praise be to God one day i will recover.
I developed derealization after a bad experience with weed about a year ago. I use to freak out from the second I woke up to the second I went to bed. Lately, I’m still in recovery but, I have come such a long way! I’d like to bring up ADHD and derealization. Not being on my medication at the moment creates a feeling of being “spaced out” and it’s hard to differ the symptoms. However, I am excited about life again! I have a recovery plan. I run everyday for as long as I can, which gives me a good endorphin boost. I also take CBD oil/tea, eat healthy, and I am going to watch your meditations everyday and see where things go ❤️
Ephemeral Spirit hey.! I‘m really glad to hear that you are in a good recovery! And well I am so happy that u had the Same cause of dpdr as me, I know it sounds crazy, but I always thought I’d be the only one with the cause of weed.! Would it be ok for you to exchange Instagram tags? I really need someone to talk about it, especially with you because you had the Same cause as me! I‘d really couldn’t thank you enough if you agree! My insta Tag is Fiete_elr :)
Did you also had this feeling or thought like "wait did I really just looked this way" or "did I really do this?" "I was just in the bathroom, how did I get here" or "is this person (friend) really beside me or am I hallucinating?" this symptom really stresses me out like im having a psychosis or something
Hello, check out mistake #3 in the video. It seems like you are worrying about individual symptoms. You just gotta tell yourself, this is just DPDR. Don't worry about each and every individual symptoms.
Swamy G it’s really scary sometimes but I will keep saying that to myself, just wanted to know if u had the same symptoms. But thanks for ur answer swarmy, really appreciate it 🙏🏼
literally THANKYOU! Your videos have told me what i need to know. This is the LAST video/ thing i am going to read about dpdr. The less attention/ importance i give it the more it will go away!!
You have helped me the most. Thank you so much man. Glad to see you uploading again hope you’re staying healthy and holding up well during these times. Really like the editing and music in this vid btw!
i'was struggling to pull out my self from dpr from 2014 to 2021.... but i just cant recover ...but now i'm recover like nd now watch your videos this help me much more ...nd one day i'm be totally recover .
I recovered from dpdr and I had a set back because ive been in isolation for a really long time because of corona and I went outside and It hit hard! looking back at old videos where I recovered helps a lot but the thoughts don't help either haha
Great video! I was thinking about you the other day.... I was going to go watch some of your videos, then I wake up today and your in my in box! I’ve been having some set backs recently after doing better. Although I feel at times I’ll always have this on some level... thanks for the videos!
How do you actually stop checking in every morning and all day after 4.5 years of DPDR? You say you must stop checking in but don't offer a method to do so? Saying to stop doing it is like saying not to think about sadness. This is the only thing holding me back now. I feel like I accept it, but my brain keeps automatically thinking about it to sabotage my progress.
I’ve heard that giving into compulsions is why we keep checking and that’s what keeps us stuck. The channel anxiety and ocd did a video on derealization
I stopped reading forums. I realized it was making me feel worse. I felt like I was becoming to obsessed with reading what others had to say about it. I was in a Facebook group. I turned off the notifications.
I’m here for my younger sibling and I’m searching everywhere to be exact on what exactly it is, it’s like they’re living in a dream they didn’t wake up from and their imagination is getting stronger where they actually feel it and they see themself sitting beside them like an imaginary friend communicate and feel them and they tell me if they are crazy and I keep comforting them even though I know it could cause problems if it continues on but I can only do so much and I’m not a professional although I read and search these stuff a lot but it’s not the same thing. So I’ll try with making them maybe practice a sport or yoga and I’ll practice with them and go out as much as we can so it’s not suffocating and eat more health and keeping busy maybe even by silly stuff we like and I’ll keep doing my best and look for a professional that could actually help...
Thanks so much for this video!! I was honestly confused if I was recovered or not because i haven’t been feeling as bad as before and that just caused me to have a mini setback so i totally understand that you shouldn’t be “checking if you still have it”. this whole video is spot on and i’m very thankful for them and your whole program. I do ofcourse have my moments when i am down because of dpdr but i have been feeling better every day because of you. Thank you!
@@hungryburger6195 yes don’t be scared and live life as you normally would (as hard as that seems) and try your best to fully accept this feeling. Also sleep and wake up at the same time everyday
In this period I feel strongly dissociated (derealization). It all started for me in an instant and it's as if I see the world from a completely different perspective, I don't even remember how I was living so peacefully a second after it started, or if my brain had turned off a switch and I had immersed myself in this new prospect. Does it mean that now I will never go back to the way I used to be? Why is it so difficult now for me to remember how I lived without derealization? Thank you
I'm not sure if its feeling unsafe, but I feel like people can tell the unreal and "off" feeling I feel. I got DP from smoking weed and its the same feeling when you think people can tell youre high.
That way i look at it, Your brain is trying to look for dangers, the thoughts and feelings that keep coming back are thoughts and feelings that you don't accept. they are perceived as dangers thus they keep coming back until you accept them.
Hey swamy, can you make a video about dpdr and the 7 chakras? Im pretty sure dpdr and trauma messes up our chakras a lot. I started listening to chakra healing music and my physical symptoms of dpdr are gone:)
Hey can i ask listen i wasnt afraid at all from the dodr but it still dint go away for years one day i took zolpidem and i woke up and it was gone but second time withrawal it game back but how is this going away
Thanks so much for all your videos. It really helps and you explain everything so well. I was wondering if you know whether it's typical to have obsessive and terrifying thoughts of death and dying in relation to dp/dr? I don't know if they're causing the dp/dr or am I having those thoughts because I have dp/dr if that makes sense?
@@ebonixiyana I'm doing a lot better thank you. I'm going to therapy and I switched my medication from Lexapro to Cymbalta and both of those things combined as well as accepting the thoughts and feelings of DPDR and not fighting them has really made a difference to me. Do you or have you suffered with it yourself?
@@gerryclarke405 hi, im sorry ik how weird those feelings and thoughts are. try to focus on accepting the feelings and they will soon pass and remember that your intrusive thoughts are not yours! stay strong
I felt like I was recovering well and then BOOM obsessive intrusive thoughts about reality. How do I work through these and put my mind at ease again that this is reality?
This feeling so scary hope this ends soon for everyone, I noticed when im doing something I feel it but not as bad or if I’m talking with someone but if im alone doing nothing it feels very bad
Don't try to run away from or dread these feelings when you're by yourself. See it as an opportunity to face them. That will help you in the long term.
@@RealSwamyG thank you (: , this morning I was feeling out of it and dizzy but I’m not letting it get to me it’s hard but I’ll do my best to not fear it
Hi Swamy! I’m practically 90% thanks to your amazing videos. I was really deep in dpdr, but now I feel much better.. one symptom that I still have is feeling “disconnected” from myself when I look in the mirror. I was wondering if you had any tips for that. I also was wondering if you had tips for trying to recover while being in quarantine. Once again, thank you!
As for the mirror thing, it gets better over time. Don't shy away from mirrors, tell yourself "Its ok to feel disconnected, but I am still myself" As for quarantine, though it's a challenging time, it's also the best time to learn something new or invest in improving yourself. I practice my guitar every day. I write more. I'd suggest you develop a routine for everyday. Routines are your best friend at this time.
Thankyouuu!!! Allhumdullilah im like 90%recovered.One thing it has had an effect till now is OBSESSIVE INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH i.e DEATH ANXIETY.Send help pls🥺🥺🥺
just saw it,came here to realize how life takes us through such rides.Its all good now Alhumdullilah,at times i get such episodes but i dont feel as much IN DANGER.
Thanks for this video. I am recovering but I am noticing a resistance to letting it go. Therepy is helping with this. But I just wanted to ask is it normal to feel like you don't want to go back because you feel like the stuff you are thinking is real.
Did anybody ever feel so like a ghost Like out of body and mind, yeah unreal movie like, like waves in the brain or something like if I'm drunk but I'm not, so spaced out, seeing like perpetual vision like when I'm outside I see like you know when it's hot outside and you see heat waves kinda like that but vertically and not as many, I also have tinnitus pretty bad.this was weed induced or laced weed or something also I had a chemical imbalance before I smoked again and was on medicine antidepressants and anxiety meds, but stopped taking them
Hey Swamy I saw a comment on your other video saying the world doesn’t exist and everything is just an illusion what do I do because it made my derealization so much worst
I could tell you the world is real, but the problem is that you might read another such comment and you'll start panicking. What I tell ppl is to develop an attitude of "I don't care".."the world is unreal? I don't care, I still wanna live my life.".. try that.
I usually have feelings that everyone around me are they real or I'm watching a dream..when I think that is it for real i usually feel that I'm going to die or faint.. idk I'm scared is it normal??
Hey I'm graduated and currently preparing for a one of the tough exam where one need to study for 10 12 hours in order to crack exam.. And unfortunately and regretfully I'm suffering from derealization in this phase of preparation, Just tell me will i be able to crack this exam with this condition? Or should I take gap and wait until returning of normalcy or should I leave preparation forever to save my study efforts which will go in vain due to this disorder.. Please help...
surprisingly at first my emotional numbness was so strong i genuinely believed i would never get it back, but slowly and surely i am. and trust me i believed it would never come back at one point. just give it time and chill. i hope this gives u some hope
@@nadaelasri7221hey it’s been 4 years. I never seen your message till today. Thought I’d share my story with you. I had dpdr in March 2020 and managed to overcome it 6 months later. I 100% overcame dpdr around November 2020. I went the whole of 2021,2022,2023 and the first few months of 2024 without even a second of dpdr but I fell back into it again in April 2024 and now I’m trying to recover again. Thank you for your comment
Did you had intrusive thoughts and harm ocds i have both i am pretty much comfortable with dp but the thoughts are pretty bad tbh and very hard to ignore btw i love that you are doing for the dp community
I have been dealing with OCD for years. Watch Ali Greymond's or Mark Freeman's vids and try do exposures without doing compulsions. There will be some setbacks and it might take some time but you will get there.
You shouldn't think like this. Life is a process. You can't simply get back to your old self without any memories of DPDR. Can you get back to when you were seven years old again? No! When you recover, you will no longer be afraid of the symptoms. You will no longer experience them. But your life will change, most likely for the better.
Do you feel numbness in your body after doing something and you feel that what ever is you do is not yours and was not your intention to do and you feel like you are just in your mind your body is not yours and when you think of something you suddenly do that and judge it like was that me example you went to kitchen and than suddenly realize how you came in kitchen how your body is responding it automatically and you get freakout and think this more often and when you walk do you feel like how your walking what is making you walk how mind is connected to your body do you feel this please reply im i the only one ???
Can dpdr cause ur brain to speak for you I know I can read and speak but after getting dpdr I've felt like I don't know what words mean but when I calm down I easily can. I'm new and worried just need advice I've only had weed and lsd I would always panic while having weed that's why I think it's caused by it I would Over think things like why do we do things When I took lsd I just realized I was bad and need to change my life for like a month I felt good I had a good ego and did self care and cared more abt others and things. But 1 day I woke up and thought i ruined my brain from the drugs and started getting rlly scared i hate drugs now I've stopped just looking for guidance. Ty I only have autism and that's it I'm 14 I only used for about 2months and did low dosage lsd twice all same year weed was like 3 4 days a week in my room was happy then it will go down to panicking then go back up I think I'm fine cause it's not alot of drugs and didn't do them for long I just need help to recover tyy
Hi Swamy, your videos help me a lot but I have a doubt ... every time I am at leisure with my family, totally happy, my DR increases a lot! I even get a blurred vision ... Shouldn't my brain be more relaxed? Or does he force this increase to remain in "safe mode"? I can not understand...
Hi Caroline, just a few weeks ago I released a video about feeling DPDR when talking to family members (and others). I think you may benefit from the insights in that video ua-cam.com/video/IuAxxBQbAaw/v-deo.html
You just gotta try to get your mind off of what your thinking about. Don't think of how what your feeling is bad and its scaring you. Personally I find doing something physically helps he alot faster. Like try just doing something squats or whatever is easy for you and focus on the good and just try to have a good time
Hello guys, i've been suffering from dp/dr for 5 months. Sometimes it hits me so hard sometimes it mild and i'm kinda getting used to it. But i have a question to those who suffer from it or have any information if someome can help me please.. yesterday i drank coffee which is something i dont usually because we all know it makes anxiety worse.. but i drank it anyway because my dp/dr wasnt so bad. Eventually i got really anxious but i knew it was from the coffee so after coming home i just rested and the nervousness just went away.. plus i got really mad when i came home and i was so stressed because of something.. at night everything got worse... i would be sitting there but feeling soo weird and so spaced out.. as if this person is absolutely not me.. ive experienced that before but it was so severe... memories of my childhood started to hit me out of nowhere which usually happens like 2 times a day but yesterday it was crazy.. every minute my mind would bring out an old memory and hit me with it.. the memory doesnt have to be something traumas its just a normal memory. Is that normal? I know that recovering from dp/dr has its setbacks but i suddenly feel afraid of doing anything today because of this feeling.. could it be the coffee affecting me? I read that coffee stays in your system for only 6 hours but i woke up today with the same feeling. My dp/dr is so so bad. I was feeling better for a week then after drinking that coffee and getting into a fight with my mom i felt suddenly so weird and crazy. Please if someome can explain
how do you feel in dpdr like you have about of question in your mind like why how? is this happening when what if? do you have this thoughts like questioning to your self bcuz I'm suffering from this if I'm trying this i have a question why and how im typing how i know these English letters do you have these thoughts
Can this go away in every case? Because I read some comments in which people say they are suffering from DP for 20 years! 🥺 they say their DP isn’t caused by anxiety so it’s not curable
It's about why people find it hard to accept DPDR even though that is the path to recovery. I have more details here www.google.com/amp/s/acoachcalledlife.com/dpdr-recovery-feeling-safe/amp/
DPDR is a TEMPORARY protective mechanism - it's there to PROTECT you, not harm you! Just accept the feelings and go with it, and don't fight it!
Everyone needs to hear this
But it's hard
This is sooo hard
Some people have it their whole life
You’re one of the reasons why I’m basically 95% recovered. Thank you so much.
Warms my heart to hear that!
how are u now
how did you get to 95%?
How long did it take you?
@@adriancastro8823 thats easy bro u think about its a big disorder change your thought
I have been on the upswing of recovery for 10 months now. I can tell you right now that this video is spot on. I battled this for 9 years, always searching for the solution. Finally, once I landed on my 4 therapist and completed a 2 week intensive outpatient program at a local facility, I started to realize that is was the searching that was the problem. This disorder is very much like OCD, in that your obsession comes up and you compulsively try to fix it (googling, reading forums, ruminating, obsessively checking to see if its still there, entertaining "what if" thoughts, etc). Alot of OCD involves physical compulsions (locking door 3 times, etc.) but there is a whole other side to it...MENTAL COMPULSIONS. In a nutshell, the compulsion is anything you do in response to your obsession coming up. ANYTHING! Mental compulsions are where I spent most of my time. Arguing with myself, repetitive/stuck thoughts, always trying to "figure it out".The answer truly is learning to let go and not particularly care. Easier said than done, admittedly. I struggled with this one for a long time. In the end, the thing that worked for me was mindfulness. You HAVE to learn how to disengage from those thought. PERIOD. There is no other answer. I essentially let the thoughts come anytime, but dont entertain them any further than that. They pop up, I immediately go back to what I was doing. For example, If I'm driving a car, I move my attention to what my hands feel like on the steering wheel. If I'm in the shower, I shift attention to what the soap smells like, the water feels/sounds like, etc. At the beginning, it will probably be a constant struggle to continuously move your attention to the present. It will feel fake. You will question yourself and the strategy you are employing. That is just the OCD (doubting disease) at work...trying to get you to try and "figure it out" in your head again. I promise you, there is nothing to figure out. For anyone struggling with this, if any of this resonates with you or sounds like your experience, I urge you to find a qualified therapist that SPECIALIZES in OCD/Anxiety. Its very important to understand what you are doing to keep enabling this disorder. What compulsions are you doing to try and get rid of it. I was surprised at everything I was doing, although they weren't obvious at the time. In the meantime, start learning about mindfulness. Also, I would suggest trying to start a meditation practice to learn the basics of mindfulness, and then try to let it bleed over into your everyday life, not just your daily (10 min) practice. For those interested, I would highly recommend the app: Waking Up (meditation app) by Sam Harris.
Well said.
Yeah bro I understand it's anxiety but I lowetrd my stress levels and I'm super chill but I went outside today to play some football and I litteraly felt like I was in a dream.I felt like I am just gonna wake up in any moment.No sense of time,forgetting everything and now I'm more ok.For me it lasts around 1 to 2 hours.What to do?
I keep checking in all the time every single time I wake up but I’ve been trying to create a mindset that I am safe
That's the most important work. Once you start to feel safe, you will be able to accept. Once you do that, you'll see that DP/DR though unpleasant is not really harmful.
Slowly, you'll stop caring about DP/DR, that's when you actually will stop checking in. Because you'll see that your attention has moved on to something else.
Me too it's no fun
It's hard too go to work with it it's insane 😭
how to stop checking
@@kimchigguk7834 I just act like it doesn’t matter and I feel more better than before from just acting like it doesn’t bother me
May Allah reward all of you making sure we recover from dpdr soon.
Hello how did your recovery go?
May Allah reward you too sister
@@supermamaburger106 honestly,i stopped giving it a thought to a point that even if it made me question my existence,i just kept on going w my work.(At times it was hard as hell but WORTH NOT GIVING A DAMN ABOUT).I stopped watching all these videos and made myself v busy with college work.Its not that it just simply ends one day,i still get such episodes out of nowhere while i do my work or am about to sleep.I feel these minor but hard episodes wont go off anytime soon but they dont affect me the way they did earlier
And yet here we are watching video number 790,000 on DPDR and diving into the comment to see if someone has the 10 second fix . Crazy but all toooooo real.
Freaking out this morning that's why I'm watching this video. Took my anxiety medication and now watching this. Starting to feel better now. I'm a new mom so its hard dealing with this while taking care of a baby.
Sorry to hear that. Know that millions of years of evolution have prepared you for this moment. You've got the strength to do this.
How are you now ?
YOURE GREAT I actually feel like there is someone that understands me
Great channel and video. I have DP and DR for 35 years Non-Stop. I I'm not afraid of it anymore but it's stuck with me. I don't want to die with it
Swamy you've been such an important person during my journey with DP. When I first found your blog, words cannot even describe how comforting it was to find a person who has been in the same "mystery-storm" also called dp. Thank you for your wisdom and support. I am truly able to say that most of my days are dp-free. DP made me to find the person that I had lost. I'm now myself more than ever before and world is really a beautiful place full of mysteries.
Happy to hear about your progress.
are u good now
Speaking a new language and hanging out with different culture people forces you to process the world differently and helps a lot.
Mr swamy. Hope you are good. I am currently experiencing a depersonalization phase and with your videos i can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Praise be to God one day i will recover.
You will!
You are my second favourite after Sandeep Maheshwari. You are genius and making many peoples life better.
Second favorite??? Damn, I still have so much work ahead 😉
Second bcoz u only make about dp dr
Why u don't make on other topics?
Like depression, mind control etc.
@@shuvodeep Definitely, all of that is coming in the future. Thanks for the feedback.
Swamy, you are the world expert on recovering from this. You are wonderful. Thank you.
I developed derealization after a bad experience with weed about a year ago. I use to freak out from the second I woke up to the second I went to bed. Lately, I’m still in recovery but, I have come such a long way! I’d like to bring up ADHD and derealization. Not being on my medication at the moment creates a feeling of being “spaced out” and it’s hard to differ the symptoms. However, I am excited about life again! I have a recovery plan. I run everyday for as long as I can, which gives me a good endorphin boost. I also take CBD oil/tea, eat healthy, and I am going to watch your meditations everyday and see where things go ❤️
Ephemeral Spirit hey.! I‘m really glad to hear that you are in a good recovery! And well I am so happy that u had the Same cause of dpdr as me, I know it sounds crazy, but I always thought I’d be the only one with the cause of weed.! Would it be ok for you to exchange Instagram tags? I really need someone to talk about it, especially with you because you had the Same cause as me! I‘d really couldn’t thank you enough if you agree! My insta Tag is Fiete_elr :)
Did you recover?
Did you recover yet 🧡?
Did you also had this feeling or thought like "wait did I really just looked this way" or "did I really do this?" "I was just in the bathroom, how did I get here" or "is this person (friend) really beside me or am I hallucinating?" this symptom really stresses me out like im having a psychosis or something
Hello, check out mistake #3 in the video. It seems like you are worrying about individual symptoms. You just gotta tell yourself, this is just DPDR. Don't worry about each and every individual symptoms.
Swamy G it’s really scary sometimes but I will keep saying that to myself, just wanted to know if u had the same symptoms. But thanks for ur answer swarmy, really appreciate it 🙏🏼
I also had that symptom , but it slowly faded away as time elapsed by ! You’ve got this
I wanted to thank you for your videos. I started watching when I was deep in dp/dr. I am doing much better today, almost recovered.
So good to hear stories like this ❤️
are u good now
Did you recover?
@@hungryburger6195 Yes
@@nicoleamanda2231 how long did it take you? Also how did you recover?
literally THANKYOU! Your videos have told me what i need to know. This is the LAST video/ thing i am going to read about dpdr. The less attention/ importance i give it the more it will go away!!
You are the best dpdr teacher i can find on the internet. Thanks man so much!
thank you so much for helping everyone. i was having a moment of that and ur video just made me 10x better! much love to u.
You have helped me the most. Thank you so much man. Glad to see you uploading again hope you’re staying healthy and holding up well during these times. Really like the editing and music in this vid btw!
I’ve had it since 2014 because I have been exposed stress and been in jobs I don’t enjoy
Swamy I’ve watched 1 of your videos you have helped me so much already!!!
i'was struggling to pull out my self from dpr from 2014 to 2021.... but i just cant recover ...but now i'm recover like nd now watch your videos this help me much more ...nd one day i'm be totally recover .
I recovered from dpdr and I had a set back because ive been in isolation for a really long time because of corona and I went outside and It hit hard! looking back at old videos where I recovered helps a lot but the thoughts don't help either haha
Don't believe in those thoughts. Let them come and go but don't believe in them.
hey how r u feeling now
I had this for 2 years plz save me!!!
Great video! I was thinking about you the other day.... I was going to go watch some of your videos, then I wake up today and your in my in box! I’ve been having some set backs recently after doing better. Although I feel at times I’ll always have this on some level... thanks for the videos!
Hi Lindsay, sorry to hear abt setbacks but they are part of the process. You will come out of it. Thanks for your comments.
Swamy G I think I may purchase your program in the near future. Thanks again!
@@lindsayreese2976 how are you now? You have recovered? Or it is still there? I would be pleasure if u reply me.
@@cansu8906 I am doing ok for the most part. I do always have it on some level , but it is low for me right now. God bless
Hey man thanks for the advice.. you’re points make sense.. I’ve had DP off and on for 10 years
How do you actually stop checking in every morning and all day after 4.5 years of DPDR? You say you must stop checking in but don't offer a method to do so? Saying to stop doing it is like saying not to think about sadness. This is the only thing holding me back now. I feel like I accept it, but my brain keeps automatically thinking about it to sabotage my progress.
Ms aswell. The checking in is brutal
I’ve heard that giving into compulsions is why we keep checking and that’s what keeps us stuck. The channel anxiety and ocd did a video on derealization
I stopped reading forums. I realized it was making me feel worse. I felt like I was becoming to obsessed with reading what others had to say about it. I was in a Facebook group. I turned off the notifications.
You did the right thing.
Did it help in the end?
I appreciate these videos so much
I’m here for my younger sibling and I’m searching everywhere to be exact on what exactly it is, it’s like they’re living in a dream they didn’t wake up from and their imagination is getting stronger where they actually feel it and they see themself sitting beside them like an imaginary friend communicate and feel them and they tell me if they are crazy and I keep comforting them even though I know it could cause problems if it continues on but I can only do so much and I’m not a professional although I read and search these stuff a lot but it’s not the same thing. So I’ll try with making them maybe practice a sport or yoga and I’ll practice with them and go out as much as we can so it’s not suffocating and eat more health and keeping busy maybe even by silly stuff we like and I’ll keep doing my best and look for a professional that could actually help...
Hey is your siblings doing good?..... Where can we talk more about this?
Constant on pressure on the forehead . Thank you . I will get over this in Jesus name amen 🙏🏾
Acceptance is the key!!!
Swamy legend
Acceptance is the way
@@RealSwamyG i think i understand now.
More moments of clarity tho swamy
your a great guy im so glad i found you thank you so much
Thanks so much for this video!! I was honestly confused if I was recovered or not because i haven’t been feeling as bad as before and that just caused me to have a mini setback so i totally understand that you shouldn’t be “checking if you still have it”. this whole video is spot on and i’m very thankful for them and your whole program. I do ofcourse have my moments when i am down because of dpdr but i have been feeling better every day because of you. Thank you!
The road to recovery has always ups and downs.
Did you recover?
@@hungryburger6195 I would say like 99.9% lol. I get it once in a while if I’m stressed but nothing compared to before.
@@nadaelasri7221 any tips
@@hungryburger6195 yes don’t be scared and live life as you normally would (as hard as that seems) and try your best to fully accept this feeling. Also sleep and wake up at the same time everyday
What I I had anxiety even before I had depersonalization, I’m worried it makes it worse even when I’m not nervous about it but about something else
In this period I feel strongly dissociated (derealization). It all started for me in an instant and it's as if I see the world from a completely different perspective, I don't even remember how I was living so peacefully a second after it started, or if my brain had turned off a switch and I had immersed myself in this new prospect. Does it mean that now I will never go back to the way I used to be? Why is it so difficult now for me to remember how I lived without derealization? Thank you
I'm not sure if its feeling unsafe, but I feel like people can tell the unreal and "off" feeling I feel. I got DP from smoking weed and its the same feeling when you think people can tell youre high.
I got it from smoking too and I just want it to go away
That way i look at it, Your brain is trying to look for dangers, the thoughts and feelings that keep coming back are thoughts and feelings that you don't accept. they are perceived as dangers thus they keep coming back until you accept them.
Hey swamy, can you make a video about dpdr and the 7 chakras? Im pretty sure dpdr and trauma messes up our chakras a lot.
I started listening to chakra healing music and my physical symptoms of dpdr are gone:)
I think you should make a video, your experience is still fresh. Link the video as a comment.
Hey can i ask listen i wasnt afraid at all from the dodr but it still dint go away for years one day i took zolpidem and i woke up and it was gone but second time withrawal it game back but how is this going away
Thanks so much for all your videos. It really helps and you explain everything so well. I was wondering if you know whether it's typical to have obsessive and terrifying thoughts of death and dying in relation to dp/dr? I don't know if they're causing the dp/dr or am I having those thoughts because I have dp/dr if that makes sense?
how are you doing now ?
@@ebonixiyana I'm doing a lot better thank you. I'm going to therapy and I switched my medication from Lexapro to Cymbalta and both of those things combined as well as accepting the thoughts and feelings of DPDR and not fighting them has really made a difference to me. Do you or have you suffered with it yourself?
yes its been really hard but this gives me hope. im glad your doing better!!
Hi I am going through dp dr and I am having a lot of strange feeling and intrusive thoughts and I find I hard to do things and concentrate
@@gerryclarke405 hi, im sorry ik how weird those feelings and thoughts are. try to focus on accepting the feelings and they will soon pass and remember that your intrusive thoughts are not yours! stay strong
I felt like I was recovering well and then BOOM obsessive intrusive thoughts about reality. How do I work through these and put my mind at ease again that this is reality?
Safety and obssesing with symptoms i not feel safe and im very struggle with symptoms.
This feeling so scary hope this ends soon for everyone, I noticed when im doing something I feel it but not as bad or if I’m talking with someone but if im alone doing nothing it feels very bad
Don't try to run away from or dread these feelings when you're by yourself. See it as an opportunity to face them. That will help you in the long term.
@@RealSwamyG thank you (: , this morning I was feeling out of it and dizzy but I’m not letting it get to me it’s hard but I’ll do my best to not fear it
Hi Swamy! I’m practically 90% thanks to your amazing videos. I was really deep in dpdr, but now I feel much better.. one symptom that I still have is feeling “disconnected” from myself when I look in the mirror. I was wondering if you had any tips for that. I also was wondering if you had tips for trying to recover while being in quarantine. Once again, thank you!
As for the mirror thing, it gets better over time. Don't shy away from mirrors, tell yourself "Its ok to feel disconnected, but I am still myself"
As for quarantine, though it's a challenging time, it's also the best time to learn something new or invest in improving yourself. I practice my guitar every day. I write more. I'd suggest you develop a routine for everyday. Routines are your best friend at this time.
Swamy G thank you so much!
@@cristylopez1215 hey! How are you now?
Thankyouuu!!!
Allhumdullilah im like 90%recovered.One thing it has had an effect till now is OBSESSIVE INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH i.e DEATH ANXIETY.Send help pls🥺🥺🥺
How did u do it?
can you please talk to me
just saw it,came here to realize how life takes us through such rides.Its all good now Alhumdullilah,at times i get such episodes but i dont feel as much IN DANGER.
Thanks you so much !
Thanks for this video. I am recovering but I am noticing a resistance to letting it go. Therepy is helping with this. But I just wanted to ask is it normal to feel like you don't want to go back because you feel like the stuff you are thinking is real.
Did anybody ever feel so like a ghost Like out of body and mind, yeah unreal movie like, like waves in the brain or something like if I'm drunk but I'm not, so spaced out, seeing like perpetual vision like when I'm outside I see like you know when it's hot outside and you see heat waves kinda like that but vertically and not as many, I also have tinnitus pretty bad.this was weed induced or laced weed or something also I had a chemical imbalance before I smoked again and was on medicine antidepressants and anxiety meds, but stopped taking them
Is it normal for physical symptoms of dpdr to randomly just kick in even if its been 6 months and you never had physical symptoms?
Thank you bro!! Did you recover to the dpdr?
Hey Swamy I saw a comment on your other video saying the world doesn’t exist and everything is just an illusion what do I do because it made my derealization so much worst
I could tell you the world is real, but the problem is that you might read another such comment and you'll start panicking. What I tell ppl is to develop an attitude of "I don't care".."the world is unreal? I don't care, I still wanna live my life.".. try that.
I usually have feelings that everyone around me are they real or I'm watching a dream..when I think that is it for real i usually feel that I'm going to die or faint.. idk I'm scared is it normal??
How do I stop checking?
Hey I'm graduated and currently preparing for a one of the tough exam where one need to study for 10 12 hours in order to crack exam..
And unfortunately and regretfully I'm suffering from derealization in this phase of preparation,
Just tell me will i be able to crack this exam with this condition?
Or should I take gap and wait until returning of normalcy or should I leave preparation forever to save my study efforts which will go in
vain due to this disorder..
Please help...
@Swamy G please reply brother
It means a lot to me
@@samirsolunke1262 how are y now brother
Mr swamy i am looking for an answer that can dp dr lead to schizophrenia?
acoachcalledlife.com/dpdr-and-schizophrenia/
Hey Swamy is numbness too emotion gone once you are fully recovered?
Numbness is usually a result of trauma, but it can sometimes happen to people who go thru DPDR as well. How did you find yourself in this situation?
Swamy G well I used too stress a lot over my girlfriend and other problems but now when she does something I don’t really feel bothered about it
surprisingly at first my emotional numbness was so strong i genuinely believed i would never get it back, but slowly and surely i am. and trust me i believed it would never come back at one point. just give it time and chill. i hope this gives u some hope
@@nadaelasri7221hey it’s been 4 years. I never seen your message till today. Thought I’d share my story with you. I had dpdr in March 2020 and managed to overcome it 6 months later. I 100% overcame dpdr around November 2020. I went the whole of 2021,2022,2023 and the first few months of 2024 without even a second of dpdr but I fell back into it again in April 2024 and now I’m trying to recover again. Thank you for your comment
What if I started feeling depersonalization after taking SSRI medicine and stopping? Will it still go away? I’m so scared....
If you are still struggling look up dp manual on UA-cam and watch the how to stop existential thoughts video 🙂
How are you
Did you had intrusive thoughts and harm ocds i have both i am pretty much comfortable with dp but the thoughts are pretty bad tbh and very hard to ignore btw i love that you are doing for the dp community
I have been dealing with OCD for years. Watch Ali Greymond's or Mark Freeman's vids and try do exposures without doing compulsions. There will be some setbacks and it might take some time but you will get there.
@@Avolition617 thanks so much it means a lot
@@themotionlab-i6u Np dude. Glad to help
@@Avolition617 did you had harm ocd
@@themotionlab-i6u HOCD and TOCD but then again all of them are OCD and you have to target the particular obsession that you are suffering from.
Sometimes i get confused about this is exactly dpdr or another mental illness 😑
When i fully recovered then i Feel fully myself ? 🙄 Or Not Like Past
You shouldn't think like this. Life is a process. You can't simply get back to your old self without any memories of DPDR. Can you get back to when you were seven years old again? No!
When you recover, you will no longer be afraid of the symptoms. You will no longer experience them. But your life will change, most likely for the better.
I am so afraid i will develop schizo . And i will lose control over my body n mind. This stops me from accepting my dp/dr
Do you feel numbness in your body after doing something and you feel that what ever is you do is not yours and was not your intention to do and you feel like you are just in your mind your body is not yours and when you think of something you suddenly do that and judge it like was that me example you went to kitchen and than suddenly realize how you came in kitchen how your body is responding it automatically and you get freakout and think this more often and when you walk do you feel like how your walking what is making you walk how mind is connected to your body do you feel this please reply im i the only one ???
You won't;)
I had a worse condition, until i stopped giving a shit about it and it's gone
Can dpdr cause ur brain to speak for you
I know I can read and speak but after getting dpdr I've felt like I don't know what words mean but when I calm down I easily can. I'm new and worried just need advice
I've only had weed and lsd I would always panic while having weed that's why I think it's caused by it I would Over think things like why do we do things
When I took lsd I just realized I was bad and need to change my life for like a month I felt good I had a good ego and did self care and cared more abt others and things. But 1 day I woke up and thought i ruined my brain from the drugs and started getting rlly scared i hate drugs now I've stopped just looking for guidance. Ty I only have autism and that's it I'm 14 I only used for about 2months and did low dosage lsd twice all same year weed was like 3 4 days a week in my room was happy then it will go down to panicking then go back up
I think I'm fine cause it's not alot of drugs and didn't do them for long I just need help to recover tyy
Hi Swamy, your videos help me a lot but I have a doubt ... every time I am at leisure with my family, totally happy, my DR increases a lot! I even get a blurred vision ... Shouldn't my brain be more relaxed? Or does he force this increase to remain in "safe mode"? I can not understand...
Hi Caroline, just a few weeks ago I released a video about feeling DPDR when talking to family members (and others). I think you may benefit from the insights in that video ua-cam.com/video/IuAxxBQbAaw/v-deo.html
@@RealSwamyG Ok, thank you! I'll watch
Why did you censor the year
How can I calm down from depersonalization...
You just gotta try to get your mind off of what your thinking about. Don't think of how what your feeling is bad and its scaring you. Personally I find doing something physically helps he alot faster. Like try just doing something squats or whatever is easy for you and focus on the good and just try to have a good time
Hello guys, i've been suffering from dp/dr for 5 months. Sometimes it hits me so hard sometimes it mild and i'm kinda getting used to it. But i have a question to those who suffer from it or have any information if someome can help me please.. yesterday i drank coffee which is something i dont usually because we all know it makes anxiety worse.. but i drank it anyway because my dp/dr wasnt so bad. Eventually i got really anxious but i knew it was from the coffee so after coming home i just rested and the nervousness just went away.. plus i got really mad when i came home and i was so stressed because of something.. at night everything got worse... i would be sitting there but feeling soo weird and so spaced out.. as if this person is absolutely not me.. ive experienced that before but it was so severe... memories of my childhood started to hit me out of nowhere which usually happens like 2 times a day but yesterday it was crazy.. every minute my mind would bring out an old memory and hit me with it.. the memory doesnt have to be something traumas its just a normal memory. Is that normal? I know that recovering from dp/dr has its setbacks but i suddenly feel afraid of doing anything today because of this feeling.. could it be the coffee affecting me? I read that coffee stays in your system for only 6 hours but i woke up today with the same feeling. My dp/dr is so so bad. I was feeling better for a week then after drinking that coffee and getting into a fight with my mom i felt suddenly so weird and crazy. Please if someome can explain
how do you feel in dpdr like you have about of question in your mind like why how? is this happening when what if? do you have this thoughts like questioning to your self bcuz I'm suffering from this if I'm trying this i have a question why and how im typing how i know these English letters do you have these thoughts
@@puzzledadmiral2593 yes !i have a lot of existential questions
@@tatyanahajj2852 lets chat in whatsapp or insta ?
@@puzzledadmiral2593 whats your instagram
@@tatyanahajj2852 beaconbin841
I just get worried because I have type 1 diabetes as well 😅
Can Dp / Dr Medication Help Me For RECOVERY or Not ?
There is no medicine for this. :(
SSRIS have helped alot of people
Plz answer me anybody
yes hi
Do pills work?
no,only good attitude
SSRIs have helped people
So i can't drink soda pop
Can this go away in every case? Because I read some comments in which people say they are suffering from DP for 20 years! 🥺 they say their DP isn’t caused by anxiety so it’s not curable
It goes away. Don't compare your experience with others.
@@RealSwamyG
I spoke to someone who got it for no reason. He believed it was chakra problems and it got better. But he is still working in them
@@salviatrip7083 There was a reason. It’s trauma based
hellolove your video, just don t understand your number 10 My friendi like your channel
It's about why people find it hard to accept DPDR even though that is the path to recovery. I have more details here www.google.com/amp/s/acoachcalledlife.com/dpdr-recovery-feeling-safe/amp/
Sir, you do KNOW that MIND doctors are going to hate you??!!
Your advice goes totally against INDUSTRY symposium supportive MEDICAL practice.
Respect and Prayer, from Bangladesh.