Depersonalization Disorder: A Mental Health Nurse's Experience

02:12 Depersonalization Disorder in childhood
04:16 DPDR comes back
06:14 A Medical Student with Depersonalization
09:23 "Chronic" Depersonalization
13:38 Doctors Not Knowing DPDR
20:39 "Like I'd Lost my Soul"
25:51 Getting DPDR in the 2000s
29:04 Having No Plan for Recovery
31:30 Wishing DPDR was Something Else
40:00 DPDR at Work
46:14 Tinnitus Similarities
52:40 Interpretations of Dissociation
54:25 Awareness of DPDR in the Medical Community
59:42 "We do things we think are helpful"
1:01:14 How Paul's DPDR Recovery Started
1:06:22 Going to the Gym
1:10:30 Having moments of DPDR is fine!
1:13:39 What if DPDPR Comes Back?
1:17:46 Dealing With So Many Symptoms
1:22:23 Ketamine and Weed
1:31:14 Jetlag
1:37:06 The value of "I know what you're going through"
1:38:29 Advice for people with DPDPR

Paul Molyneux is a community mental health nurse working in the North West of England who has been qualified for over 13 years.

Paul experienced episodes of DPDR when he was younger but these were short lived and not problematic. But when he started training to become a nurse in 2007 he experienced chronic Derealisation. This lasted for around two years and was an extremely distressing experience. Paul remembers being terrified that he’d be ‘stuck’ that way forever.

Thankfully, in 2009 Paul managed to completely recover. And since then, he's become fascinated by how the disorder manifests itself and is an advocate for the cognitive behavioural model of depersonalization / derealization disorder.

Check out my website and DPDR recovery program at:
https://www.dpmanual.com/

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Disclaimer: Please note that the medical information contained within this video is not intended as a substitute for consultation with a professional physician and is not a recommendation of specific therapies