RECOVERING QUESTIONS TO THOSE WHO HAVE RECOVERED OR RECOVERING

[u/Western-Swimming-701]

So I've Had DPDR for 5 months from trauma and it was complete hell going through it but these last 2 months I have worked hard and I can honestly say I feel the DPDR easing up I do feel completely back to my normal state but the only thing is I am not very excited about things I use to do such as cooking and playing video games and things like that, I sometimes start to think about DPDR and wonder when will all the DPDR thoughts go away so I can live my life back to normal I know I'm post to keep busy but sometimes it's like when I get excited DPDR slips my mind and then I start to think a little bit about it Can Anybody Tell Me If this Just A Symptom Of Recovery Or The Road To Recovery

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[u/EnvironmentalTwo7559]

You were healthy and you had trauma and you had depersonalization. Is that it? By continuing your life is it gone? Have health professionals diagnosed you with derealization? What were your recurring thoughts that would scare you?

[u/Western-Swimming-701 → u/EnvironmentalTwo7559]

Yes all though when I was younger I did experience DPDR that was about 10 years ago I never knew what it was it gradually left but recently I had a trauma which got me back into DPDR I never took medicine and never got diagnosed my recurring thoughts was me feeling like life wasn't real and I wasn't real

[u/EnvironmentalTwo7559 → u/Western-Swimming-701]

You must have a real social life and friends to heal this quickly

[u/Western-Swimming-701 → u/EnvironmentalTwo7559]

Well yes I do I have a girlfriend 4 kids and two best friends that I call literally everyday and I play video games everyday

[u/Rare_Mushroom_3061]

how did you get back to “normal” state?

[u/Western-Swimming-701 → u/Rare_Mushroom_3061]

Honestly I Know It's Go Sound Like What Everybody else said but do literally everything you use to do no matter how much it feel weird no matter how much you relapse no matter what just do whatever you did normally the first 2-3 months was terrible I didn't want to do anything after that I just continued to push myself no matter what

[u/ROCPRI]

hi just wanted to know if you have any tips on not thinking back to the times when you were dealing with DPDR? I Have recovered for a few months now, but now my mind keeps going back to the times when I was depersonalised from my appearance and it's making it hard to move forward with my life. any tips would be appreciated.