3 ways in which DPDR changed my life and taught me true happiness

[@EMD1130]

I have been recovering from severe existential anxiety and DPDR for a little over 2 years now. I have been following you for about a year. I feel like I am well on my way to recovery and your videos have been an enormous help in this journey. This is a great video particularly at this point in my recovery. I am sure I will be replaying it several times. I am still having struggles with anxiety cropping up in the middle of the night and have been using your meditations to calm me. Thank you SOOO much for what you do. I really don't think I could have gotten as far as I have in recovery without you!

[@travisfragale3024]

Thank you for this Robin. I could feel the loving energy from this video. It's like everything could be seen as a gift. All the anxiety and strangeness are blessings in disguises if we surrender and open our hands to life. Not sure if I heard it in another talk but what hit home for me is "the trying" to get something, make something happen, feel something, let go, etc. This very trying is part of the problem. I appreciate you and inspired to help others

[@alissacampagna7564]

❤wow thank you so much Robin!!! Yeah, life is a beautiful crazy ride❤ so much to learn and to experience... better days will come for everyone❤❤

[@arianabliss9043]

Hey Robin, I thought I should let you know that I saw a local mental health therapist who specialises in DPDR and she informed me that many people with Bionocular Vision Disorder have symptoms of DPDR and she suggested I see a neuro-optometrist to check nothing neuro-optical is wrong. Turns out after 20 years of being told DPDR is mental health related for me; it’s actually a Vision disorder and I need to realign my eyes through prism glasses and vision therapy. I won’t go into the shock and grief I’ve experienced losing 20 years of my life - in addition to the relief and hope as with prism glasses I feel it improving. Please look into BVD as many people think they have DPDR but it’s a neurological to eye alignment issue. I’ve spent at least $80,000 on therapy and no one ever told me about this or recommended I check until now. So please look into it and inform all your patients

[@robinschindelka2117]

Hi Ariana! Thanks so much for the comment. I will keep that into mind and look into it! Glad to hear that you're finally doing better after all those years ❤️

[@arianabliss9043]

@@robinschindelka2117 its glimmers here and there but just from wearing glasses, so have some hope and connecting with others who have BVD yet misdiagnosed by psychiatrists as conditions presenting with DPDR. I suspect a very large % of those with chronic DPDR and without the ext thoughts (which I never had) actually have a neurological to eye issue.

[@nickgrosfeld7568]

A hurdle is just a step up to a higher plane of living. I loved the sand metaphor too!

[@Seanus32]

It's reassuring to hear these words. After a major trauma, I entered DPDR and it pushed me into confronting certain realities and wake me up to the need to take remedial action. The reality that my partner was not on my side and thus parted ways was a hammer blow which triggered the DPDR but when we reflect and extract the lessons, there is hope for moving on effectively. Many thanks for the video :)

[@mingramh]

Great topic. Mnay good one line mantras from here. The sand analogy was great. The community is a good benefit because I think having a support group or sherpa helps reaching peace. But ultimately it's a personal journey.

[@williamgsnelling]

This is a powerful video

[@martinreyes7838]

Could you do a video on DPDR and alcohol?