Video 05 - The nature of Depersonalization/Derealization - A new approach"

In this occasion I expose my new approach to understand the nature of DPDR. It a simple hypothesis based on my own process of recovery.

 

I hope you can understand my slow speech and realize why a dpdr person may suffer so many symptoms "out of the blue" when the last neural link between both hemispheres dissapears.

 

A normal thought and a normal perception of the world requires the contribution from both hemispheres. When the thinking and logical mind is disconnected from the "body" and "emotional" mind in order to protect ourselves, permanent DPDR may appear to stay. Simply the DPDR person maybe neurologically UNABLE to think normally again.

 

From my personal point of view, the unique and effective way to build again a neural connection (somehow) is doing some cognitive exercises to activate right-side functions as vision in 3D, working with colours, distances, habits, evoking a normal pattern of thought doing regression in time and trying to reestablish the normal emotional circuit. Meds may help to supply chemical substances that facilitates this neural bridge. Maybe limbic system, amygdala, hyppocampus, ... are involved in this disease. Since they are connected basically with the right hemisphere, a life grey, flat, logical and without emotions is the kind of life a DPDR person experiments.

 

I am not a psychologist nor a neurologist. Just a Telecom Engineer bringing a new approach to focus and treat this illness based on my personal insight suffering this disorder for more than 26 years.

 

Any professional of health here watching this video?, I am looking forward hearing from you. It is a great opportunity to help so many people around the world. I need your opinion.

 

 

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EXERCISE nº20 - "What must I think about people when I am walking in the street?"

One of the symptoms of DPDR consists of looking invisible for the rest of the people.

When we are walking in the street we usually avoid to look at the rest of the people because WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO THINK ABOUT THEM, in fact, we are not sure about their existence. They mean nothing for us. Why this happens?

Since I don't know who I am and I am not able to remember clearly what have I done in my former life due to DPDR, it seems very difficult to guess in which way the rest will react when they see me. We lost our roots, our references, our own image. Our image depends on what the others think about us.

In order to remove that invisibility and recover our place again in the real world I should make this exercise:

EXERCISE 20 - "What must I think about people when walking in the street?"

Before facing the people in the street we should remember aspects that are unique to us

1st - How old am I?

2nd - What were my main achievements in life?

3rd - What were my most relevant hobbies/skills? I should overpass everybody in those skills and feel proud.

4rd - Pay attention to your physical aspect. Am I well dressed?, Do I look handsome today?

... etc

 

 

Any time you face people and don't know what to think about them, you should think:

• Could it be dangerous crossing his/her way? Should I be frightened?
• Is he/she physically neat, clean? or Should I feel disgusted?
• Is he/she a normal person or is he/she facing any disability?
• Is he/she going to ask me anything? Which could it be? Could I be robbed by him/her? could I be taken by surprise?
• Is he/she older than me, the same age or on the contrary I am older than he/she?
• If we are of the same age, Would I like to accept him/her in my own gang or group? I didn't like every classmate of my school. I had my reasons. Can I remember why?
• If I am older, I should know more than him/her and be superior somehow. I could teech him/her things and be compassionate with him. If I don't pay attention I could hurt him/her.
• If I am younger, that person probably knows more about life than me. I should show respect and learn from his/her.
• His/her level of studies... Are lower or higher than my own level? Would he/she overpass ME?
  I was very good playing or practising my hobby. Could he/she be better than me? Could he/she even know how to do it? Probably not If my skill is high.
• Am I stronger than that person?, Taller?, more corpulent? If we had to fight... could I win?; If I hit him/her, what would happen? (Considering physical contact helps a lot to overcome DP)I
• Is he/she more beautiful or attractive than me? Do I like him/her?....
• ...
   

Previosuly, when you were alright, you wondered those questions automatically, just within seconds. Now you cannot consider that info about people easily.

SO, YOU SHOULD BE MORE TRIVIAL AND CARE ABOUT APPEARANCES!

 

WITHOUT BEING SURE!

WITH NO LOGIC AT ALL!

ALL HEALTHY PERSON TAKE ALWAYS INTO ACCOUNT HIS/HER IMAGE AND COMPARES CONTINUOUSLY WITH OTHERS
 

 

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HOW IS THE RECOVERY? - "What will I feel?"

In my case I have lived two types of recoveries:

• The first was by itself, spontaneously, waking up the next morning ok, with great sense of relief. (That is, It lasted a few hours, like a drunk without drinking). Probably a warning.
• The second time, recovery  NO occurred in the next morning, nor the other, or the beyond one.  The recovery occurred  very slowly , desperately slow , months, years, with the feeling that did not advance anything and I was going to stay like this forever, rare, dumb.

I imagine that many of you may be wondering the same thing!

What I noticed is that certain kinds of thoughts and actions made ​​me feel slightly something right . I had to keep trying by myself, by trial and error to determine what made ​​me well:

For example, getting up and walking around the room or across the room looking at my things, my old textbooks, .... Give a short walk every evening alone. Take a deck of cards, touch and remember the first time I played cards, remember the house in another town where I was in summer, remember what my mother or my brothers told me, etc ...

SOME SYMPTOMS THAT INDICATE WE ARE RECOVERING

• Mild "pinpricks" , a signal that something perceptible happens in our head , not painful, indicating that we are recovering the neural circuit that connects logical mind with our "body" mind.  It's hard to explain, but it's as if I were to use an abandoned route, for years in my case, that connects emotions, personality (our personal history) and sensory perception . The exercises I propose in this blog, gradually make something move in our brain for good

• Naturally, the colours i.e. of cars on the highway , they begin to have different distinct tones and greatest, they evoke us toys, objects of the past that had the same tone and even more BIG! ... whether we like it or not . We will be able to regain tastes really (not fake or reason that we like a tone or other)
• Our way of looking will be different. More active, paying attention to the details of things and our body. We will see in 3D and every place else remind us of the past. WE BE ABLE TO COMPARE WITH OUR PREVIOUS LIFE.  And remember to compare you need a reference, the reference we had lost.
• ...

IT IS WONDERFUL!

Come on, Don't give up!

A DEFINITION FOR DP/DR DISORDER

From my understanding, based on my own experience, dp/dr is an anomaly or mental disorder from which (1) the information collected from our senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste) is not properly processed (derealization) and (2) this info cannot reach our EGO, ourselves, and is not incorporated to our personal story anymore (depersonalization)

 

Both symptoms are directly related each other, so it is common to talk about DP/DR as a whole:

1. Derealization consist on perceiving the world as distant, rare, distorsionated, more grey, more plane. You can feel you are not completely in this world. For example, when walking your feet move almost involuntarely, without control, in an automatic way, robotized. Your body is a foreign to you, separated from you mind. What you can perceive doesn't mean anything for YOU.
2. Depersonalization is the sensation of having lost YOURSELF, literally. It is difficult recognizing yourself. It is hard to observe your face on the mirror. Who is this that is looking me? You can not remember easily your life before the attack of DP/DR. You lack preferences, tastes, favourite things... things that before can bring you emotions, now they don't do it. You are unable to understand the relationships with others, you are not comfortable treating people. Even your family seem strangers for you. You have lost your personality.



HAVE I GOT DP/DR?

 

Have you just discovered through the Internet that the mental anomaly you may be suffering is called depersonalization or derealization?

(DP/DR)

Do you feel that you cannot find YOURSELF?

That everything means nothing for YOU

Do you see everything around you, strange, different?

Are you feeling hard to perceive emotions as the way you did before?

Are you watching yourself doing things like a robot, in an automatic way?

Have you lost your illusions, aims, objetives in life?

Is it difficult for you to remember, to connect with your former yourself?

When you are around many people... do you feel confused, unsecured, missing?

When you had to go to the doctor, did you feel misunderstood?

Time, duration of hours, days,... is confusing for you?

Everything around you is more grey, more distant, it seems you see through a veil

Have you lost the ability of concentration?, and etcetera...

 

If you have answered the previous questions in the afirmative ... maybe your diagnosis is right. Perhaps you are suffering this mental disorder, not very important by itself but very annoying called depersonalization and/or derealization.

 

My intention writing these pages is helping you to get over this disorder from my own experience. I suffered DP/DR for many years, I have understood it and, the most important issue, I know the keys to recover your life through a complete list of easy and concrete exercises.

 

Come on, it can be cured, there is a SOLUTION!!

 

feel free to contact me by email:

 

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