Being kept in a lonely house in suburbia with limited contact to other adults, friends, or the outside world) Parents being late to school for hours on end) psychological abuse (which often leaves you questioning if you were mistreated).At the same time, deluding, denying and distorting reality only hurts you. I’m extremely grateful, and I try to see the good in the bad. This doesn’t mean I’m ungrateful for my life. In other words, I wasn’t willing to admit to myself that I was neglected, emotionally abused, and had almost zero guidance from my parents, and basically no adults to consult with. I spent most of my life ignoring my life. Remember, depersonalization disorder is a dissociative disorder. People with depersonalization are extremely eager to deny or avoid thinking about the negative aspects of their lives. It’s easy for people to say they never had trauma. The problem with trying to explain trauma to people with depersonalization is that trauma is something that is only somewhat consciously recognized, if at all. There are normal forms of dissociation that everyone experiences, and then there are pathological forms of dissociation, which are at the heart of dissociative disorders and most personality disorders.
It could also be elements of experience that are pushed out of awareness, such as emotions. Trauma is any experience that is so stressful or overwhelming that it is pushed out of awareness either consciously or unconsciously. However, I urge you to be open to trauma processing, because for a majority of DPD sufferers, it is critical for recovery and becoming an empowered person. It’s my belief that a minority of people with DPD haven’t truly experienced trauma, and likely came from good life situations.
There is actually a name for this kind of misdiagnosis: iatrogenesis. It’s a very controversial area of psychology. Some therapists actually convince their patients that they have been abused when they in fact weren’t. I’m not trying to force a diagnosis on you People with DP constantly obsess about existential issues, but they have trouble focusing on their own lives. The problem with denying, and avoiding painful aspects of life, is that is furthers the dissociation you already feel. In fact, I stress living a life of gratitude and optimism, and taking responsibility. It doesn’t’ mean you have to disown your parents, hate your life, and blame others for your own faults. In my opinion (and this may sound quite negative) most people are walking around in sort of state of Stockholm syndrome toward their parents. When these prisoners are freed, they often view the people who controlled them and inflicted them with pain in a very positive light. This disorder is known as Stockholm Syndrome. There is a actually a disorder in which people who are kidnapped or held hostage develop positive feelings towards their captors. In order to resolve your trauma, you are going to have to take a less-than-perfect view of your family and your close attachment relationships. You will Probably Resist what I’m going to tell you I will try to explain this topic in the best detail here in this article, but for a truly thorough understanding and application of the ideas here, you need to try the ten hour Total Integration Method. In essence, the deepest, earliest, and often times most insidious cause of DP/DR is trauma. Harris Harrington teaches you the importance of overcoming past trauma in curing DP.
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