The effects of doing the exercises of this blog can be shown in the following graph:
We distinguish three distinct phases in the recovery of DP / DR: I) Initial state of consciousness depersonalized and derealized: . Over the years you learn to live with just the left hemisphere input,
emotions are simulated, you learn to ignore and manage the annoying situations (avoiding crowds, view of landscapes and open spaces, and lots of other things ..)
and can live without thinking much about it . BUT ALWAYS BEEN AWARE THAT YOU ARE NOT WELL YET. Periodically the DP / DR will occupy our minds and we could try again a search to raise a solution, without finding it so far. When work, studies, demand our attention we will forget the issue and will continue living on our own.
II) Phase of conscious exercises: We can start with exercise No.1 ,1/2 hour every afternoon and consciously facing the objects and examining our moving body. We often will become frustrated and return home with apparently no improvement at all. But if you remain doing efforts based on (1) asking for the brain that perform functions that are only known by the right hemisphere and (2) remembering how you did when you were alright we will open a minimum neuronal path to the information stored there.
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS PRECISELY THE ACTIVITIES THAT INCREASE THE DP/DR FEELING. WHEN WE ARE MORE CONSCIOUS THAT WE ARE IMPOTENT TO FULFILL THEM. SO THEY MAY INCREASE YOUR LEVEL OF ANXIETY. => That's why these exercises" can not be take us more than 1/2 hour at first, until we get to Phase III.
This phase is critical. It is when we will be tempted to give up. Again resignation. We still will be well, perhaps not yet feel almost emotions but notice that something is going well . We will be forcing the right hemisphere to work. " i.e. evoking images and objects from the past and retrieving memories associated with color shades we perceive " .
Don't GET OBSESSED WITH THE RECOVERY, IT IS A TIME TO RELAX, TO HAVE A WALK,... USING YOUR SENSES, TRYING TO DO THE EXERCISES AND HAVING FUN. YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO LOSE.
During this phase we will alternate outdoor exercises with others that can be done at home. This phase may be long, in my case from six months to a year.
III) Initial phase of normality
There will come a day when, by repeating the exercises, surprisingly, we can do them even outside the half an hour and with not too much difficulty. We will return to normalcy, improve our vision, our memory will be reinforced, time perception will return to normality, our memory, our tastes and preferences and the most important thing, we will be able to access the emotions . WE WILL BE A COMPLETE PERSON AGAIN AND FINALLY WE WILL BREATH AND FIND THE PEACE INSIDE.
