How to crush your depersonalization symptoms

If you have been a long term anxiety sufferer chances are you have experienced depersonalization. Depersonalization is hard to describe but the experience can be very intimidating and exhausting to endure. Many who have experienced depersonalization describe the experience as feeling detached from reality or feeling like you are watching your life from a movie goers perspective. This detached feeling can be quite overwhelming but the good news is that you are not broken, you just need to dig deeper into the experience in order to heal.

Depersonalization is a natural product of chronic anxiety

When our stress levels reach a certain point, our body and mind has to do something in order to survive. When we are struggling to address the root cause of our anxious mindset our compounding fears compete for our attention until eventually our brain just goes blank. Without a specific mission to help guide us, our anxiety has the ability to radically alter our conscious experience and convince us that we really aren’t human or alive in any sense. If we can take steps towards healing our biggest fears, depersonalization will disappear like it never existed in the first place. Always remember you are not broken you are just dealing with chronic stress you haven’t tackled yet

Your depersonalization symptoms are valid, but here is how we move forward

• Embrace the fear you are feeling and tell yourself that depersonalization is not forever
• Start keeping a recovery journal. Document your feelings every day and always write empowering statements like “I will overcome these symptoms” and “I am not broken I just haven’t healed from my stress yet”
• Walk for at least 30 minutes a day, preferably outside
• Tell someone that you are struggling with depersonalization but you are on a mission of recovery
• Laugh more. Laugh at the fear trying to bring you down. Watch silly movies like dumb and dumber or anything by Adam Sandler from the 90s

I know the horror that comes from feeling disconnected from life and the desperation of wanting the symptoms to end. I am living proof that depersonalization is not forever but it is going to take hard work to overcome.

You are a human being worthy of love and acceptance

Although depersonalization is big and scary, you are bigger and scarier than depersonalization. Your mind is what is creating these sensations and your mind can create an equal and opposite reaction.

If you are suffering from depersonalization, hang in there warrior. Brighter times are ahead.