![]() ![]() For most people, the DP dissipates naturally when they are out of the traumatic situation but this is not always the case. You might have reduced serotonin due to stress (even if you don't feel that stressed, modern life is pretty stressful in itself) as Tommygunz has theorized - in this case the supplements he has listed will help that re balance but you also need to train yourself out of the over thinking and ruminating habit and try to live day by day as normally and routinely as possible. But these various stresses combined over time can cause the body and mind to react in very strange ways. And of course, all of these things on their own can seem like they can be coped with on a day-to-day basis. You might be suffering from a common ailment like post-natal depression, mid-life crisis, exam stress etc. You might have small some problems in your personal relationships. You might not be sleeping as well as you should. ![]() You might be drinking some caffeine and soft drinks etc. For example, your work might be a little stressful. There are a HUGE number of elements that, when combined, can cause a person to experience an episode of DP. But things are not always what they seem. The fact that there seemed to be no cause whatsoever can make the condition all the more frightening it's as if something has gone wrong in the person?s brain for absolutely no reason at all. They may have been just walking along the street one day, when the condition suddenly hit them. ![]() For some people, there seems to be no trauma, no drug-inducement, no nothing that caused the DP. People that have experienced DP as a result of a bad drug trip or experience have NOT caused long term damage the mechanism is exactly the same, your brain is protecting itself, hiding away to get the rest it needs whether this be from the fear a bad experience causes or from the long term drain the drug use has on your body. When manifesting as part of another disorder such as anxiety, depression etc, the symptom may never occur again after the person recovers from the primary disorder. But only if you give yourself a chance to and stop trying to force recovery. If you let it get the rest it needs and just carry on your every day life as best you can, then eventually the safe feeling will return and you will recover. By worrying/stressing you are sending signals to the brain that something is wrong - hence it will protect itself even more and so the cycle continues. In this case, as well as the above, the brain is taking time out to rest itself ? you have no control over this the more you try, the more tired your brain gets and it can't feel the safe feeling it needs. Normally, the safe feeling in the chest after a shock will reverse the change in brain chemistry, lowering adrenaline and raising dopamine, but when you are worrying about the DP, you cannot feel safe. What makes it persist is that usually a person does not know what it is and so worries/creates more stress this creates a self-perpetuating cycle. You are not going insane and this will rebalance itself. Stress or fear produce a change in your brain chemistry ? an increase of adrenaline and decrease of dopamine - and this feeling of depersonalistion and derealisation is a result. **PLEASE IGNORE ANY GRAMMAR MISTAKES THERE WAS A PROBLEM WHEN I PASTED THE TEXT** The feeling of depersonlisation is due to a shift in brain chemistry, and is due to anxiety/worry etc.
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