BOOK AVAILABLE IN CANADA!

Dear all,

Amazon has just announced that books can be printed now in Canada.

https://www.amazon.ca/WAY-OVERCOMING-DEPERSONALIZATION-DEREALIZATION-UNREALITY/dp/1726630684

 

Excellent news!
Santos

THE 20 EXERCISES TO ESCAPE FROM DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION

Here you are ordered and classified the twenty exercises you should practice to get over your DPDR disorder. 

It's very important be CONSTANT, do them ALONE and try to ENJOY the recovery process. 

They are cumulative, I mean, you can do number 1 for a whole week, then you can practice 1 or 2, later 1, 2 or 3, and thus more and more variety of exercises as you get to know them. There is no a fixed rule.

The ideal is to make them outdoors (on the street, in the countryside, on the beach, ...), but if the weather does not accompany you can always do the indoors exercises.

I recommend ONLY HALF AN HOUR PER DAY with full energy. The rest of the day live normally (maybe a little bit zombie) being patient without obsessing too much with the healing. It will come a day without you noticing it. All the exercises battle against DP and DR in some degree, although some of them are more appropriate for rebuild the lost personality (DP) as numbers 5, 10, 13, 14, 16 and 20.

• The green exercises are the basics, you should practice them almost every day. It's crucial to go out and walk paying attention to the world and the way you can physically affect and interact with it.
• Purple exercises are those which let you fight against Derealization.
• Blue ones are especially designed to fight against Depersonalization.
• Orange exercises are those necessary to acquire good habits and stop doing what is harmful to our recovery process.

There are many more exercises you might do because we will have to reestablish a lot of skills affected by the dissociation.

If you believe you don't have sufficient strength or willpower or can't understand the nature of these exercises, don't hesitate to contact me if you want me to accompany you as a "coach" (guide) in this recovery process:

santos.barrioscanseco@gmail.com

THE BOOK IN ENGLISH - A way of overcoming DPDR - Unreality Disorder

The date has come at last. Yesterday I have just published in Amazon the English Edition of my book, titled:

"A way of overcoming Depersonalization and Derealization"

Unreality Disorder

I hope it will help you to better understand the nature of this dissociation, as well as helping you to perform the exercises more comfortably.

Here you are the link to get the book:

https://amzn.to/2ItnklA

I hope everything can be understood ok, since English is not my native language. If you find any linguistic expression that is not correct, please tell me and I will correct it in the next edition.

santos.barrioscanseco@gmail.com

I published a book about DPD in Spanish - Two years later I am back

Hi all!,

What have I been doing so long? Just publishing the first book in Spanish language. Its title:

"Conoce y supera la Despersonalización y la Desrealización: Trastorno de irrealidad"

'Knowing and overcoming Despersonalization and Derealization: Unreality disorder", available on Amazon. Just search "Santos DPDR" and here it comes. 

I am working on its translation to English. I have just started. I hope it can be finished around March 2018.

The cover of the book is important: you can see, left side, rational mind blocked from getting access to the right hemisphere, the emotional side. I have represented a wall between them both. That weak connection is probably the reason of the disintegrated self and unreality sense.

 

Meanwhile, how are you?. Have you done the exercises I proposed? Many people is telling me they are improving thanks to them, so give them a chance!!. 

Now I am back in English, ready to give support again to DPD sufferers around the world.

Send me your story to:

santos.barrioscanseco@gmail.com

Video 06 - Exercise N1 Explained

Hi!!

Here you can find a new video in English explaining how to do the most important exercise of all: The number one: "Sensory Walking".

Don't hesitate to contact me

 for further info about my method!

santos.barrioscanseco@gmail.com

THINKING IN A RIGHT-HEMISPHERE WAY! - An small TIP to improve

Everyday we use our keyboard (PC, laptop, notebook,..) to navigate through the Internet, checking our inbox, meet friends on facebook, work with our spreadsheet, word or pdf document, etc...

So it is a very common situation. Watch this picture... What can you see?

 

The left hemisphere just notices that a toy is on the keyboard

EXERCISE: You must try to notice other aspects of your keyboard as your right-side mind would do:

1. The shape and colour of every key and the accumulated dust around them.
2. Watch you finger pressing every key. Press them very slowly. What do you feel?. Hear the sound hitting the keys. Is it similar to others you have used before?
3. Do you like the colours of the little plane?
4. Touch the plastic recovering the screen of the laptop.
5. Make a copy of the keyboard on a sheet of paper. As precise as you can draw it. Draw every detail. The letters and signs of each key must be place properly.
6. Play a little with the plane, landing on the keyboard. Do you like it? The screen could be a great barrier to pass over.
7. Use and watch your LEFT HAND!! (it is driven by your right hemisphere!!)
8. Type very slowly watching your fingers hitting the keys.
9. Notice your fingers moving from one side to the other of the keyboard to press the keys.
10. Summarizing: Feel your laptop as a physical object!

CAN YOU DO IT?

santos.barrioscanseco@gmail.com

MEMORY AND DEPERSONALIZATION - Why my memory is worse than before?

Who DPDRed person has not complained and thought: My memory is failing more than necessary?

Why is this happening?

Before being DPD we could remember easily everything and now we have many problems even to know where I left the car parked and where I left the house keys at home.

We SUFFER A GREAT INSECURITY.

A part of our consciousness, located in a part of the left brain (prefrontal cortex) seamless access to encyclopedic information, logical, rational type.

However now we can not easily access to the spatial-based, based  on personal examples and particular cases of our right side de the brain (strongly connected with our lymbic system, and therefore with our emotions and personality).

Those two memories usually works as a team in a normal person. Every "word" (allocated in left side) should evoke on us an image, an emotion, a past and personal experience with that word. Now we are lacking that connection and feeling weird.
 

EXAMPLE: What did you eat yesterday?

THE "LOGIC" ANSWER " from a DPDR person:
 

MENTAL PROCESS

Uffff. I don't remember. Does it matter? Why must I do that effort? Well, let's see...

Today ... What day is it? I will look at a calendar/watch/smartphone because I do not remember ... aha, it's Tuesday (It is the same for me. It means nothing)
So yesterday it had to be Monday (pure logic) What do I usually eat on Mondays ...? Vegetables (more logical again), but in fact I can not remember well, I CAN'T SEE IT FINE. 

ANSWER:

Yesterday I must have been taken vegetables, but I'm not sure . What does it matter what I ate yesterday ?, Who cares? 

WHAT A  NORMAL PERSON THINKS:

 

MENTAL PROCESS

Ok. I will remember it.
Today is Tuesday (usually already knows, does not have to look at it) and yesterday ... (he evokes the image from the dinner of yesterday seeing itself pricking the fork to eat ... "vegetables", and seeing what they ate and drank like a movie. He is able to rewind and fast forward what happened at dinner EFFORTLESS ...

 

ANSWER:

Yesterday I ate vegetables, 100 % SURE 

OTHER EXAMPLES DAILY "BAD" MEMORY:

• Do you remember 100% if you've locked the car, or the front door of your house ?, Are you sure ?, Do you usually go to check if you have closed them?
• When you go to a restaurant and choose the dishes you are eating. . Do you usually doubt what you have chosen ?, Do you find it difficult to remember it clearly?
• In a meeting, do you usually feel uncomfortable because you have been just introduced by someone and have not been able to retain its name? Face/Feeling - Name association is not good.

EVERYTHING COMES FROM THE FACT THAT OUR MEMORY IS SOMEWAY SPLITTED IN TWO INDEPENDENT PIECES. WE CAN NOT ACCESS TO THE NECESSARY VISUAL AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT INFORMATION TO LINK IT WITH THE LOGIC INFO.

GOOD NEWS! :

YOU WILL RECOVERY YOUR GOOD MEMORY WHEN YOU REMOVE THE BLOCK AND THE CONNECTION BE REESTABLISHED.

santos.barrioscanseco@gmail.com