Sam's Depersonalization Recovery Story (2024)

08:22 Steve Jobs / Eckharte Tolle
12:12 From Weed to Psychedelics
16:32 Trying Magic Mushrooms
18:35 "I don't feel normal"
24:18 DPDR for TEN YEARS?
28:27 "It's called Depersonalization!"
35:45 Existential Thoughts
41:44 "Am I a drug casualty?"
46:48 DPDR is NOT a lightswitch!
53:38 "My life is gone!"
59:22 Existential Thoughts (2)
1:14:04 Sam's Lowest Point
1:19:45 What Does DPDR Recovery FEEL Like?
1:28:28 A Problem-Solving Mindset
1:36:05 Can You REALLY Get Back To Normal?
1:40:05 DPDR + OCD Thoughts
1:43:06 Advice for DPDR Sufferers

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Sam (38) lives in LA and works as a software engineer. In June of 2021, he developed Chronic Depersonalization / Derealization Disorder, triggered by work stress, an unhealthy lifestyle and an experience on psychedelic mushrooms.

Sam's symptoms included:
👉 Existential thoughts
👉 Strange and unreasonable fears
👉 Chronic feelings of disconnection

He struggled with these symptoms for 6 months.

📧 As Sam wrote to me in a recent email:
"After endlessly searching online, all of a sudden, the right search keywords brought me to your DP videos and suddenly, life started to feel hopeful again. It wasn't just me, I wasn't losing my mind, I wasn't possessed by some demon and I had NOT permanently damaged my brain!! I really don't know where I would have been had I not come across that first video that night. I might have even ended my life!

More than 3 years later, I'm fully recovered and I couldn't be happier. Life is beautiful, colorful and meaningful despite any challenges that come my way. I have been promoted at work, I have faced fear of public speaking and am getting pretty good at it, I exercise, work, have fun, hang out with family and friends on a weekly basis and enjoy every moment of it."