DPDR and the fear of going crazy | Why you're scared of going crazy but won't

[@cha0sk1lls]

yesss finally someone who gets me my biggest fears is what you said. schizophrenia, going crazy & derealization feeling like everything is a dream. these will trigger my anxiety & even my vision will feel like off putting.

[@serene4961]

I have this as a big deep rooted fear of mine since I have two parents that suffered with bipolar with psychosis and schizophrenia. I don’t have any symptoms of these conditions but I do get DPDR sometimes under stress. I am 27 and my fear has made me try to avoid stress as much as possible incase I trigger the gene. I find I have memory loss when something is stressful for me as well, my brain just avoids it completely and I procrastinate a lot. I’m not sure how to face it, I’ve been to therapy but it didn’t help much for me. I learned when I was 12 that stress is a major trigger so I think that started it subconsciously

[@stargirl3972]

Your channel is so valuable I can’t even express❤ thank you thank you🙏🏽

[@franceq5735]

Hi Robin! I CANT BELIEVE YOU POSTED THIS VIDEO TODAY. Well, yesterday I felt so hopeless that I will lose my mind or be diagnosed with psychosis. My mom was worried and she suggested we should go to the hospital. I have had DPDR for almost 2 months. I have one question for you. I haven't heard anyone that struggled with this particual symptom of DPDR. When I feel nervous at a moment I am trying to follow your advices and eventually it gets better for some period. BUT, when I start doing some activity, like cooking, I kinda forget about DPDR and when I am done with that activity THEN DPDR hits the harderst. Have you ever heard something like that before? Also, I want to thank you for your effort making these videos! I wish you the happiest life you could imagine!!

[@stargirl3972]

Hey! I’m not Robin but I have recovered from DPDR so I think I can help you. What you’re experiencing is very very normal, and actually a positive thing! During your healing journey you will experience up and downs, periods of no dpdr where you feel normal again, and then periods where it can feel really strong. This is actually a sign you’re getting better, and you can use the periods of feeling normal to remind yourself ‘hey I can feel normal sometimes, I don’t have to feel like this forever’, and eventually you will feel ‘normal’ most of the time and the positive feelings willgradually increase. Sometimes the low periods can feel even more intense because it’s in contrast to periods of feeling normal, but don’t let that discourage you, you’re on the right track 👍🏽🙏🏽

[@franceq5735]

@@stargirl3972 Thank you so much on positive words! 🥰

[@stargirl3972]

@@franceq5735 no problem! Happy to help 🫶🏼

[@saraquinful]

You feel better in those moments because you're not focused on those thoughts. Your natural wellbeing comes through.

[@saraquinful]

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[@sapaducy1]

When does one becomes crazy?How do you define crazy?

[@antoguedes]

Crazy ppl dont know theyre crazy, they dont question sanity

[@mata1640]

This is Schiz-OCD?? Fear going crazy First of all, I want to say that this will be translated since I am Spanish and I do not understand English well, I hope it is understood in the best way. I am Victor from Spain, I am 20 years old and I have had anxiety since I was little, on May 9, 2022 this hell began from which I am still just as bad, that day as soon as I woke up I had thoughts of harming myself, they came involuntarily and they scared me a lot since I did not know why I had them because I did not and do not want to hurt myself, I was very scared and anxious, my chest hurt, I had trouble breathing, I ate little, I slept with my mother ... I thought this would be because of a bad day and that it would go away on its own but unfortunately it was not like that, a few days after this, being in my room, from one moment to the next out of nowhere this thought crossed my mind: What if I kill my mother? At that moment I started to cry, I didn't know what was happening to me, because I had that kind of thoughts, it had never happened to me and I was very scared, after this I decided to go to the psychiatrist to tell him about this and he told me about OCD, I didn't know what it was but reading about it fit with what was happening to me, after a few days, exactly on May 27, 2022, I saw a news story on television about a mental illness called schizophrenia, I was in shock, it was like, I have this... At that time I didn't know exactly the symptoms of that disease, I more or less knew what the disease was but I didn't know the symptoms in depth, when I saw that news I entered a loop that lasted about 4/5 months which every day I read and watched forums, videos about the symptoms of this disease, I read about delusions and hallucinations, from that moment on I was aware of the noises I could hear, I tried to find out where I heard the noises to know if they were real or not. it was a real noise or a hallucination, if i was watching a video and i heard something that i thought could be outside of that video i would rewind the video to see if i could hear it again, around that time i don't know if it was due to stress i developed floaters and i confused them with hallucinations, sometimes out of the corner of my eye i would see flashes and it would scare me, sometimes when i would go to sleep in that phase of falling asleep sometimes i could "hear" my own thoughts, it was very strange, they were like random thoughts of things that had happened to me during the day and i would get scared that they were hallucinations. There is also the other symptom that scared me, which was delusions, I read about them and after reading I noticed that I had those same thoughts but I knew they were lies, for example, I read that a delusion is an idea that is given 100% veracity even if it is proven with clear evidence that it is not true but the belief about that idea is still maintained, such as believing that they are going to kill you without having proof that it is true, well after reading about delusions I have that style of thoughts but I know they are lies, what happens is that I am afraid that from one day to the next I start to believe them and start to rave, to summarize, I have paranoid thoughts but I know they are lies, all this comes from reading about schizophrenia, I think reading about the symptoms has screwed up my head, any help?

[@ShawnastyExtine]

Literally going through this now! Everytime I read about Delusions, Psychosis, etc. I literally go through the same thing. I heard about “Thought insertion” and it freaked me out. Now it feels like even tho I know I didn’t have those type thoughts before reading about it, and know it’s not true, now it feels like what you said, now I am scared cause like the more I try to fight it, it feels like my brain it fighting hard to get me to believe it. It’s so scary.

[@mata1640]

@@ShawnastyExtine I feel that if I did not know the symptoms of schizophrenia I would not have these thoughts, I had never thought about these things until I read about delusions and paranoia on Google, since then I have had delusional thoughts although I am aware that they are lies and do not make sense, When I have one and I remember that I read it on Google it calms me down and I think it may be due to an obsession, the problem is when I don't remember if I read it on Google or not and that's when I get scared that it is caused by schizophrenia

[@ShawnastyExtine]

@ reframe your thoughts. Start by making a list based on 1.) your thought. 2.)What evidence makes the thought true. 3.)What evidence makes it false. 4.)Is the thought true. 5.)How would you feel if you didn’t have this thought. Keep in mind what helps me is knowing before having seen it and experiencing the anxiety because of it. It never existed. It’s scary, but I just think the brain in an anxious mode, firstly can’t reason worth anything and secondly will try anything to convince you if any “possible” dangers. The best quote I heard was, “Your brain will do anything to make sure you survive, but could care less about your happiness.” The brain only cares about self-preservation. So much so that it can cause so much pain physically and emotionally through anxiety, but it itself doesn’t even feel pain. Pretty one sided lol. Compare your values to your fears and you’ll find that anxiety attacks what you care about most. Also do research on OCD, it’s a doubting disorder and that’s literally what it does. Makes you doubt everything.

[@gabrielamacias7195]

I feel like sometimes spirituality or different spiritual philosophies causes me to have dpdr. Is that common? It makes me feel like my situation is unique and no one understands.

[@bocadog3]

I feel the same way

[@projectbirdfeederman5491]

Sometimes you're not crazy, you're just being gaslighted. Sometimes you're not paranoid, and they are really after you.