If you get medical testing done, at some point you have to believe your doctor. Just remember, people with health anxiety often don’t believe doctors. If you need to visit a doctor and get medical tests so that you can confirm that you are healthy, then that may be the best course of action. You start thinking about everything that had previously been an automatic behavior, and think about it in a strange existential way. You may feel out of body experiences, or feel that your breath is strange. The strange sensations of DP are definitely frightening. But so many people with DP constantly question their health. In order to overcome the anxiety component of DP, you need to have complete confidence in your health. This is where obsession and anxiety intersect. You may have a hypochondriac fear of developing a psychotic disorder like schizophrenia, or fear that you may have a neurodegenerative disease like multiple sclerosis or ALS. Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety Obsessions Remember, you DON’T need to check in on yourself, or see if you “feel real”. You may have a fear that “if I don’t check in, something will go wrong”. This external focus gets your mind off yourself and will give you a “break” from DP temporarily. Instead, focus on something external that requires attention. So with that in mind, the more you obsess about the nature of your symptoms, the more you feel depersonalized and derealized.ĭon’t introvert your attention on yourself and on the way you perceive. In self help literature, they say things like “you get what you focus on”. Its not obsession that’s wrong, its what you use your mind to focus on everyday. Anyone who attains mastery in some area is usually obsessed about it. In fact, many great achievers in the world have an obsessional nature. Sometimes the key to overcoming one obsession, is to obsess about something else. It’s extremely important to fully immerse yourself in life. People with DP ask themselves, “do I feel real?”, “does the surrounding environment feel real?” Rumination about the symptoms fuels the feeling itself.Įxtrovert your Attention and Practice Diversion The fact is, the more you obsess about your symptoms, the worse you get. I must constantly check in, in order to see if I’m okay”. One of the underlying assumptions of obsession in DP is that “I must focus on my symptoms because this will help me. Instead of living life and experiencing reality, people with DP and DR focus on the nature of reality, and the nature of their own perception. In depersonalization this manifests itself as an almost non-stop focus on the symptoms of DP. Harris Harrington explains how to overcome the obsessional elements of Depersonalization Disorder.Īn obsession is a compulsive thought that is difficult to get out of one’s awareness.
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