![]() ![]() ![]() However, back then you were a child and not a fear-paralyzed adult and didn't have internet access to google symptoms. You have the potential to thrive with your unique brain, just as you did when you were very young and felt safe within the physical world. Learned behavioral patterns can be altered, the brain can be profoundly rewired ( Donald Hebb, 1949: "neurons that fire together wire together"). To clarify, you live in your head now and get yourself into obsessive spirals, but are in no way 'too psychologically damaged to cope', even after years of severe anxiety. Intrusive Thoughts: Without Obsession, There Is No Derealization Disorder You will soon realize that derealisation disappears when you commit to proactive recovery and abstain from all mystical thinking, so it is less out of your control than you might currently fear. This is because our brain's physicality is changing immutably, and therefore, the way that we view the world will naturally ebb and flow too (just as simply drinking coffee can make the world seem more beautiful and bright).Ĭaffeine causing some temporary jitters or sharpening your perception probably does not concern you, because you know that the stimulant effects are temporary and consumption is within your active control. The key is to release the expectation that the world will appear identical every hour, since you have a brain that is constantly being altered by stress levels, external stimulation, thoughts and the food you're consuming. That shouldn't scare us, and rest assured, it won't spiral out of control and render you unable to live/speak/work. ![]() We are perceiving it differently, and that is okay. This means that when neurotransmitters are offset due to stress, or adrenaline is acting on the body, it is common for us to feel some 'floaty' sensations, or to begin to feel that we are perceiving the world differently to normal. This is because we are never as 'fixed' in reality as we think our brains create what we call 'reality'. After all, to have a human brain is to experience some strange sensations from time to time. Mild levels of dissociation are perfectly normal. Irrespective of their origins, the sensations are designed to linger for a few days at most before dissipating.īased on my neuroscience background and my personal experience (as well as extensive open-minded research), I can confidently say that derealization is caused by an abnormal obsession with dissociation and unreality. Others need a severe physiological stressor to cross the necessary anxiety threshold, whether it be a violent mugging or an unpleasant drug experience (hence, dissociation frequently presents in PTSD). Since we are often also panic-attack-prone, it is likely that a sensitive amygdala is partly to blame. Some of us seem more prone to dissociation than others, first experiencing it at work during a presentation, or the night before an exam. Unfortunately, depersonalization/derealization is nothing more than an eerie hindrance in modern-day life. Being able to mentally 'check out' probably once conferred our ancestors with the ability to hunt and defend their families in scary, adverse conditions. You see, dissociation is a natural response to anxiety and is undoubtedly biologically-advantageous in response to a genuine threat. However, dealing with prolonged anxiety results in hormonal and chemical changes that can trigger dissociation. ![]() I will not deeply delve into neurochemistry, as I want this article to be accessible to anyone who wants to rapidly recover from derealization. Alex Prager's photography What Triggers Anxiety-Induced Dissociation? ![]()
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