

But what really helped me was exposure to my triggers. It might come back (and it always does), but now because you have been through it before, you’ll feel less dreadful. You will learn that the discomfort is only temporary. Once this happens, your confidence will grow. If you keep surrendering to it and accepting the experience, you will see that the intensity of these symptoms gradually dies down. This would be the time to stay with the experience and not try to run away or distract yourself from it. As you let go, accept and surrender, you will feel the intensity of the anxiety or DP increase. When you willingly feel DP symptoms and begin to accept and let go, it will feel fearful. Tell yourself “I am ok facing discomfort, and fear”. In my case, I trained myself to be accepting of this discomfort. This might bring in some pain, fear, and discomfort in the short term.

When you begin to accept DP feelings, you are willingly experiencing them without trying to block it out or run away from it. Moving on, something that goes with acceptance is being ok with discomfort and pain. Recover from DP/DR #2 You Cannot Escape Discomfort

And the more stressed you are, the more you are going to feel depersonalized. The more you fight and resist feelings of DP, the more stressed you are going to become. I’ve talked about this practice in almost all of my previous articles. To me, acceptance is the key principle through which my recovery was possible. They ask, “How can I accept DP when I’m trying to get rid of it?” That’s a valid question, but if you have always been fighting and resisting your depersonalization and you are still stuck with it, then isn’t it time for something different? Many people who first hear about acceptance, scoff at it. This may go against our thinking initially and what our instincts tell us to do.
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So in order to be free of something, we must learn to accept it. The less we are unwilling to surrender to an experience, the more that experience bothers us. The old adage “what we resist, persists” holds true for depersonalization. So today, I’d like to talk about the various factors and strategies that I used to get myself out of the DP hole. This is one of the intentions behind this website. So as I learned to work my way out of DP/DR, I decided to make sure that I’d have as much information available to benefit other people who are going through DP/DR. There were a few bits and pieces of really good advice scattered around, but predominantly the information that was contained in these places did not resonate with me. There were a few blogs and maybe one or two forums that were centered around this topic, but that was it. When I was going through it several years ago, there was no concrete information available on the internet. It can be difficult to work your way out of depersonalization and derealization (DP/DR) without proper guidance. These are the various factors and strategies that helped me get myself out of the depersonalization/derealization hole.
