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I am talking about things like gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, when they relate to the issues or trauma you are discussing. For example, would it be better for a female survivor of abuse by a male to have a female therapist? For someone who has been bullied due to sexual...

It was very helpful for me to post on these forums about my depersonalization and anxiety over the summer, and in fact my dissociation was starting to get a little better during those months...however it snapped right back into place plus some on September 11, when the recent flooding in...

Well, after one lovely year where I began to come out of my depersonalization and back to my body, a situation I don't feel safe in and can't get out of has set me back to Depersonalization Square One. Soooo upset...I am a floating head...food had no taste... I have no feelings...all that fun...

So, basically I feel like I had one identity, personality, "self" from birth until age 24, and then when some stressful things happened it was like a switch flipped. I felt my old self leave my body (very weird feeling) and over the next few weeks more and more of who I was seemed to leave, to...

Does anyone feel guilty they can't "get over it," whether "it" is a trauma, a relationship, an obsession, an "issue"? I feel like a loser because of the amount of time and mental energy I spend stuck in traumas and in the past--I feel like maybe I am feeling sorry for myself, but it doesn't seem...

As my depersonalization has moments of weakening I find myself sad at what I have lost to dissociation...basically i have not really experienced my life. It has been hard to feel love, joy, happiness, even the sadness is something I miss, because that means you're alive. The good part is my...

As you might guess from my name, I have almost constant depersonalization and derealization. I have been in the fog since I was 13 and I am 27 now. I think I have achieved so little in my life because, um, i haven't really been in my life. A robot-me had been going through the motions, sometimes...

A while back I was talking about a trauma with a therapist. It was very intense, I had intense feelings of terror and shame, and yet it was exhilarating, and change was happening very fast. She was not doing any relaxation or grounding work with me, and also I did not feel truly comfortable...

Hi. I just joined. Perhaps I should have posted more of an introduction first...oh well. I have Bipolar Disorder, BAD panic, BAD anxiety, Depersonalization Disorder (hence my name) and the term PTSD or trauma has been thrown around. I can relate to so much of what I read on this forum (the...