Hi Guys,
Just a quick note - one of my most disturbing symptoms is derealisation/depersonlisation - which out of everything is for me the hardest to overcome, and generally comes on now and again - and out of all symptoms is the one that can seem to return the most.
I also find it is generally there is very little info about it, both from proffessionals and other sources, so i pretty much decided i was gonna have to live with it. Until that is the other day - I came across the most brilliant book called "The stranger in the mirror - dissociation the hidden epidemic" by Marlen Steinberg and Maxin Schnall. It's all about derealisation/depersonlisation - and expalins really clearly load s about it. The authors have conducted loads of research that shows derealisation/depersonlisation is really common in everyone - and is a normal stress reaction. But that in some it can happen easily and get stuck - going into the extremes of multiple personalities etc.
Basically it debunks something that i always had ie the niggling worry that it really was evidence that i was slowly going mad - and something that i really had trouble explaining. Not at all - daydreaming, losing yourself in a book or film, are all common signs of derealisation/depersonlisation that are normal and common - its just they get more and more extreme the more stressed and anxious you get - it's just your bodies defence mechanism protecting you against trauma.
it's great you can get it on Amazon - reassurance on tap!
Cheers
nikk
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