DPDR used to be something that weighed me down, but after 6 or so years of struggling to understand how I could possibly deal with it, It surprisingly became less and less bothersome seemingly on its own. This isn’t to say I haven’t learned quite a bit along the way, but at the same time it didn’t feel like I was actively trying to get rid of my DP. I think learning mindfulness was a big part of the recovery process for me. Read more

Sometimes depersonalization makes me feel like I’m no more than background noise. The sense of detatchment from my surroundings socially, but not physically leads to me observing quite a bit instead of interacting. I think this may be part of the reason I enjoy “people watching” so much, (walking around and just observing people) because it gives me an opportunity to just forget I exist. While Sometimes it’s blissful to feel like unimportant background noise, at other times it’s crippling. Read more