wow that was useful. whenever i had dissociation, i would call it dreamscape because everything felt floaty and dreamy but in a bad way.


So informative and helpful thanks lovely girls x


I feel like I'm kind of constantly having derealisation (or like feeling like nothing is real and everything is a dream) and I've had it for so long that I've gotten used to it but lately I've been having these little moments where it's like I "wake up" and suddenly realise that everything IS real and I'm a human being that's experiencing it, but since I'm so unaccostemed to feeling like this it makes me freak out and feel like this isn't my life/isn't me and I think maybe from that I get depersonalisation because I feel like my hands aren't really attatched to me and it's somebody else living this life that I've been having and I'm just watching??


It's strange because I've just had a day of feeling spaced out but I feel so much more connected to myself now I'm watching this video, maybe because I relate? Or because it's helping me feel less alone x


This helped me understand so much. Thank you. X


When my derealization gets really bad I become paranoid about if my reality is real and feel like I'm trapped in a dream and I'm on the brink of lucidity in the dream, just not quite there. I focus on specific things happening in the environment and with my body and tell myself these are the things I will remember from the dream when I wake up (but I am awake, so when I'm asleep). As a writer, most of the stories I write involve parallel/multi-layered realities, so I've labeled my derealization as moments of "inspiration" because I'm in the head space of the stories I write.


Really enjoyed watching this video. I don't have depersonalisation or anything but hearing kati talk about some of those things were so interesting and make me really want to study psychology. I went through and read to comments and so many people are saying they're struggling. I know this won't help or do anything but I'm so sorry you're having a hard time <3 I hope you get the help you need and I do believe that everything will turn out okay <3 xxx


I think I had derealization as a child. I don't recall having any other kind of mental illness. In fact, I don't recall much of my childhood because everything felt like a dream. I think that because of my derealization I cannot figure out if I had anxiety or depression or anything else and also why I didn't do well in school. What helped me was moving to another city and school. I don't know how but it did because I realized that I was having less moments when I felt like I was in a dream. I hope you can overcome your condition soon because it's quite freaky to feel like that and you don't deserve that feeling.


I love Kati so much! thank you for this video!


I don't know if this is exactly what I struggle with, but it seems to be a close match. I do often feel as if everything is a dream and I can't process what real life means, I also struggle with brain fog, which for me feels like pressing up against a window (seeing) and not being able to look behind you, so everything you need you have to put your arms behind you and feel for (thinking) and the bit where you remove yourself from the situation is the worst. it's somewhere between turning yourself into data and having a video game glitch and you're underneath the character and the graphics are wonky. this is such a weird description, but anyways, I'm going to look into it.


wow kati is such a lovely calming presence (can't believe i've never heard of her before??) <3 tysm for this vid!! love u


Dodie, I really think you should try another kind of medication aswell. Zoloft is in my experience the SSRI that most often causes a feeling of being blunted. Try maybe escitalopram or venlafaxin instead. And give it a bit more time than four weeks. Obviously you don't have to, but I think that it might be worth giving it a shot :) x


I was on Zoloft and It made things worse I would 10/10 recommend what I'm currently on call cytrolopram it's helped tremendously love you lots babes


I feel like I have dissociation, but it's not during moments of stress or trauma. It's mainly brought on by being awake in the middle of the night. Could being awake really late cause a trigger in my brain?


To me, looking in a mirror is a scarrest part of depersonalisation because you start to realize so well that something is wrong. Luckily I haven't experienced this for a long time like now it happens only when I'm extra tired and sad, it feels like your body tries to protect you


Hey everyone, <br>So I've felt so uncannily similar to how Dodie and Kati were describing but where can I go to get a professional opinion to officially confirm/ deny if I have this problem??? Plz halp!

Hey everyone,
So I've felt so uncannily similar to how Dodie and Kati were describing but where can I go to get a professional opinion to officially confirm/ deny if I have this problem??? Plz halp!

Thank you Kati!!! I've been checking out your channel and you have a new subscriber :D

You can ask to see a therapist or psychologist in your area :) They can help! xoxo


every time you talk about this, i feel a little less "crazy" because no one in my personal life understands it at all. it makes me feel like it's more real and like i'm not making it up. thank you! x


I have derealization and depersonalization and it's really hard but your videos help me.


i don't know why i'm crying halfway through but thank you for this. <3


I think beginning to try and get out of your state ( whatever your "problem" is, wether it's depersonalisation/realisation or anxiety ) is the first step and maybe hardest, for some people, towards healing...


Could you please talk more about the magnetic therapy (or whatever it's called 😂). I'm interested and I want to know a little more about how my brain works. I don't really talk about my mental health because I don't understand what I'm feeling or why. Thanks lyl x


i have derealisation/depersonalisation and i've heard from so many different places that the best thing to do is to talk to someone, but i don't have anyone to talk to. i feel like none of my friends would take me seriously, or even think i made this up for attention. what should i do?


this was so helpful, thank you so much <33


I am so so so happy these videos happened!!!!!


Is it bad that i really enjoy when my hands no longer feel like their mine? Like feeling like I'm just floating through crowds is something I've enjoyed, i never thought it could be my brain coping with stress. Now I'm questioning how much i skip out of reality and if it's healthy


what i wouldnt give to have someone like kati in my life


When I get really depressed I don't recognise myself. Like I'll know I'm the one moving my body but it doesn't feel like me and when I look into a mirror I know it's my face because I know I'm looking into a mirror but I don't recognise it.
The longest that it has happened for one time was about a week

edit When you were talking about small childhood issues that weren't that big but seemed worse at the time. At one stage the back of my hands were hit with a wooden spoon until my knuckels were bleeding, things like that still dont seem like a small issue

When I get really depressed I don't recognise myself. Like I'll know I'm the one moving my body but it doesn't feel like me and when I look into a mirror I know it's my face because I know I'm looking into a mirror but I don't recognise it.
The longest that it has happened for one time was about a week

*edit* When you were talking about small childhood issues that weren't that big but seemed worse at the time. At one stage the back of my hands were hit with a wooden spoon until my knuckels were bleeding, things like that still dont seem like a small issue


This was so interesting, and Kati is adorable. I don't deal with dissociation often, only very occasionally - it's like i'm hyper aware of my body, but i'm not in it, i'm like a ghost observing it from outside. It's weird, and not very pleasant, but nor is feeling completely stuck in my body while i'm having a panic attack. Not sure what's worse tbh


I don't know how to explain it but I felt what I believe was disassociation for several months towards the begining of the year, it was awful but everyone (psychologists and docters) didn't really seem to know what I was talking about. Months of feeling like I was in a fog, that I couldn't think properly or do school work yet noone understood. I'm glad I haven't been like that much recently, hopefully never again. .


I feel damaged because 2015 until early 2017 I had a friend who had a brother who shut me in my friends room and I yelled help but nobody heard and he once held my hands stuck and I am young and other little things I think that's harassment but he traumatised me


i had a panic attack today in class and i didnt know what was going on but now i know it was dissociation


after a huge fire swept where i live my house and family were fine i didnt know why i feklt like that and i walked into the door coming back home cuz i was at a friends house and it was the first time i had been back home since the fire and they moved the couches out of my hosue and the white walls were covered with ash i stood in the door way and it hit like a wave i had no idea where i was or what i was doing i was walking and talking but i didnt k\\now where i was kind of it felt like i wasnt there at alll and it was so bad i cried every night and everyday cuz it wouldnt go away i started sleeping on the floor in my moms room so i wouldnt feel so alone but 3 months later my big sister got in a car crash and i was getting better  and it felt like i just got pushed back into a  bigger hole in the cold ground and after about another year i started feeling like i was there like i was awake and  i got better but it took alot of work and time and i still get waves of it now 3 years on and i have to say it is terrifying like i am walking the halls and everything looked bigger i could use my eyes to make everything look bigger but it didnt go smaller and i would look up and i realised i wasnt here i was there i wasnt anywhere i was just a body walking around i didnt even know where i was going but i kept walking doing things making breakfast and i didnt know what i was doing its honestly so terrifying i thought i ad depression but turns out i must have had some sort of dissociation now the only thing keeping me sane is music lol i use it kinda like a meditation like i sit in the dark crossed legs headphones in listening to a song that i can relate to and i could sit for hours and hours doing that music is timeless for me and its what made me feel better


When I have panic attacks I can't feel anything, last time my friend was hugging me and I didn't know until she told me. It also feels like you've lost your sight? Because you're so out of it it's almost like you can't see in away and you're memory goes away, I don't know but that's what I have


I'm always so confused how you can like “test“ if you have depersonalisation or derealisation because how can I know that I feel spaced out? Like sometimes I feel like in a dream but then I'm like: “ah no it's real“ and that's it idk it's weird

if day to day life isn't causing you a problem then I guess it's best not to question it :P


So I feel like something's wrong with me, I go through emotional trauma, I know I should be upset, but I don't feel it. I feel the same as always. Whenever I'm happy, I feel like I'm acting for everyone else's benefit. I don't know why or what is going on. Sometimes I feel completely detached from everything else, like it's not even happening to me, like I'm there but I'm not... then sometimes I feel like myself, like my friends love me and I'm healthy, then something upsetting happens and it's like someone punched me in the stomach, but I can't feel it. I want to cry, I know I should be upset but I can't do it... does everyone go through this? Is it just me?

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This is soooooooo helpful thankyou so much 😊💖


this video made me realize how my big T has splintered into different experiences THANK YOU SO MUCH


I don't have depersonalisation but every now and then I can have a Trippy/ strange situation where I look at my hands and they don't feel like me. I say my name over and over in my head and I think 'who is that ' like how is my identity a name ? Just wondered if anyone else has experienced this ?


when Kati said mindfulness, it made me wonder ... have you tried/considered trying meditation?


wow this was so interesting and helpful, thank you


Also, does these 3 D's, so to speak, fit under PTSD?


ok i'm crying at this video. i think i understand it a bit better now! ♥


I don't have derealisation but I have anxiety and I sometimes get spaced out randomly. For example, I will be sitting in class and I will zone out just randomly and the same question pops in my head, what if reality is a dream? I feel like I'm dreaming!

It's very odd. If you have this please could you give me some wise advice because I am very confused lol thanks! Also Dodie I hope you get better soon with your therapy help! I'm not going to give you my pity because I think that that's the worst thing someone can do when your going through something. You kind of just want them to go away😂 Thank you for sharing this video with us! It sure helped me and hopefully a lot of other people! I love you Dodie! x


Hmm...I don't know if I have depersonalization but is it weird that I can relate to some things? Like, I experience them a bit differently but I feel constantly "spaced out" as if I were on weed 24/7. Or I just generally feel empty, no emotions whatsoever. As if I've lost the ability to feel and nothing really matters anymore. I feel like I can barely get up in the morning because mere existence is exhausting. I want to feel, I want to live but I can't and I don't know what's wrong with me. Can someone please tell me if they feel the same? If anyone knows what I could possibly have, please tell me because I can't figure it out.


So I don't think I have depersonalization or derealization but I don't know what is it that keeps happening.  I can almost put myself in a certain state where it feels almost like a video game in the sense of where my hands or the wheel of a car seems unreal but I still feel and am responsive. And I snap in and out almost. It also feels like numbing and my body like completely relaxes but inside I panic cause it freaks me out. I'm unsure of what to do really about it.


I don't think I have depersonalization or depression but sometimes I feel so tired of just living -- I'm disappointed that my interactions aren't always amazing and how my schedule is on constant repeat. Is this a young adult life crisis or am I simply tired of being in routine?


dodie's created footnotes for video format and i love it


I'm getting R.E.M. Therapy for a trauma that I believe caused derealisation? After a period of dramatic realization I became overcame by my emotions and I believe that being overwhelmed by said emotions lead to that parachute. My experience doesn't seem to link up with others, I started to see things in atmospheres almost? It's like I could recognize the world, but it kept changing. Like it was a different season or different year every day, if that makes any sense. I don't know how to feel.


Are there more people that tried emdr but couldnt think back to the memories, because they were to much or something like that?<br>I had that and i feel like it wouldve helped so much if i just dared to think back

Are there more people that tried emdr but couldnt think back to the memories, because they were to much or something like that?
I had that and i feel like it wouldve helped so much if i just dared to think back


I am an art therapist and I think maybe art- or musictherapy can be helpful too


no wonder you didn't like medication if you were upped to 100mg so quickly!!!<br>i really you should try meds (loads of different types if sertraline didn't work for you) at 50mg a day, it changed my life and all my family's and there's no shame in it x

no wonder you didn't like medication if you were upped to 100mg so quickly!!!
i really you should try meds (loads of different types if sertraline didn't work for you) at 50mg a day, it changed my life and all my family's and there's no shame in it x


holy shit. I think i have derealization. i always feel like i'm not actually 'there' like it was all a dream. i thought it wasn't a mental illness i always thought that it's just me being weird? but i didn't have any traumatic past though. i'm really scared.


I "zone out" when I'm stressed and start to be quiet and sometimes I do it in class and it scares my teacher 😂 ;-; and I todally feel like I'm not here or like life is just a dream when it happens


EMDR is so frigging strange. I did it and it worked but man, that was a weird experience.


Okay so this is no way me trying to get sympathy, because I am doing very well mentally. This is mainly out of curiosity. So, summer 2016 I was really really I'll, basically I was in and out of hospital for a month, I had three surgeries and basically lost a lot of weight. Anyway, I went back to school four days after getting out of hospital (only for like an hour a day) and it definitely tired me out a lot. Basically what I'm trying to say is that during my recovery time I'd feel a lot of things described in the video. It wasn't constant (like it is for Dodie) but a lot of the time I'd feel like I was almost in a dream, and nothing really felt real. I wasn't too worried as it didn't happen for long periods at a time and it didn't happen lots. Also my memory of when I was ill is quite foggy and I can't pinpoint specific moments. So, I was wondering if you can get derealisation that only lasts for a short time. Because once I got better it stopped happening. I'm fine now so don't worry, I'm just curious if that's what it was as I'm trying to learn more about mental health illnesses so I can be more helpful to friends who might go through these thing.


ok so i think i might have derealisation
ever since school has started (i'm talking kindergarten) i've had moments where i space out. it's almost like my memory is a bunch of folders and all of a sudden 5 of the most recent folders are just burned. it's kinda like falling asleep (?) because i can't remember it starting or ending.
like, i'll be in class and the teacher will be talking and it'll happen (i'll space out). a friend will walk up to me and be like "oh do you wanna be partners (?)" and i'll just go "when were we told that?" "literally 5 minutes ago" "wait what she wasn't saying that" blah blah blah memory folders gone.
idk


I didn't even know that these were things wow thanks Dodie I learnt something knew


I always had this when I was 8-12 like the dream one and hand one, sorry I can't remember the names. I didn't know what it was I just thought I was weird I also have anxiety


when i was younger i used to feel like i was trapped in my body and that my hands weren't my part of my body and now i'm just realizing i am mentally ill


I like studying/get more information about these stuff.. probably gonna be a psychologist/psychiatrist in the future o.o


Give logic's song Anziety a listen it's such a beautiful song and discusses derealisation


For some reason I always feel like everything around me is fake and I think back to me walking down the school corridors and know I'm home and getting so confused as it went so fast then I think how fast is life going to go and is it real at all


OHHH MY GOD I LOVE THISSO MUCH I LOVE KATY SO MUCH AND I LOVE DODIE SO EFFING MUCH ARGHA


okay i need help. sometimes i get a feeling that sort of sounds like this but i dont know if it is or not. for example the other night i was in the backseat of my friends' car on the way home from a movie and idk why but she started tickling me as a joke and we were laughing and i was squirming and as i bent over to hide my face from her, i just felt this really weird wave of disconnection. like i was floating outside of my body, and i couldnt feel myself smiling or smell anything and all the sounds around me went hazy, like i was under water. it happened again twice that night when i was just sitting there in the car, not even laughing and moving around anymore. its happened more times for sure but that was the most recent. is this something to look into?


I have no memory of my childhood, my brain repressed every memory because of a really big trauma that happened to me when I was 5


tbh the inside out analogy made a lot of sense


my? two? favorite? people? in? one? video???? I'm shook , I lo ve y a l l 💕


i was just wondering as somebody who doesnt have depersonalisation do you find that music or like playing ukulele helps to focus/ground you?

kind of! Usually more like a distraction from feeling it I guess - but definitely when I'm absorbed in music I feel better


YOU GUYS KNOW EACH OTHER!? AAAHHHHHHHHH I LOVE YOU BOTH AAAAHHHHHHHHH


oh my god wait i understand myself now thank you so much


how i finally understand the line in the twenty one pilots song holding on to you. left side brain, the part of your brain that depression festers.


I just realized I must have something like this. Omg.


I have the same glasses, but in pink :))


i'm not sure i have dissociation/depersonalization/derealisation? idk, i have long periods where my brain feels disconnected from my body... kinda like,, floating in the space above my head? weird concept i know,, and i don't feel like i have any emotion and every feeling- physical or emotion- is like dulled at the edges and sometimes lights can seem too bright and everything i hear seems like white noise. i don't really have trauma tho so idkkkk i feel like i'm being dramatic and unnecessary


so should i fake feelings when im  disconnected?


I dont know if this is a mental illness as such, but just in this past year, i just feel like im fake. Like im being me around everyone, i always try to be myself, but i feel like being me, isnt ME. I dont know how to explain it. For example, ill wake up in the morning, ill either feel ok or like shit. There not really an in between (i suffer from depressive episodes), ill get ready for school and ill go to school, ill get my daily education, i have fun with friends, over all, i have a good time. After school ends i go home i feel like somehow i wasnt being honest enough and as my parents get home, i act 'normal' again as the afternoon goes on i feel that same way. Im being myself but somehow its not ME. I go to bed and dont get much sleep because im dwelling over that fact. I just feel like im doings something wrong or pretending to be someone im not. But im not. Im me. But at he same time im not. i feel disconnected. Like im there in the moment with everyone but when i look back on it, its like a dream. its getting harder to tell things that happened and things that didnt apart. Its really bothering me.


I couldn't stop staring at Kati. She has something mesmerizing, I don't know if it's the way she talks, acts, her mimics... is that weird ? XD


I know this sort of isn't on topic but, it kind of is but can trauma as a child cause you illness in your adult life? I had trauma as a child and I am mess without my partner, I have rheumatoid arthritis and a bunch of other fun health issues and they are sending me for a brain scan soon because I keep forgetting things and loads more... would they be able to see anything on my brain scan? Because I know sometimes when you're in pain 24/7 your brain doesn't fully work like is there a way to see trauma is involved too I've not really spoken to anyone about this before xx


I don't know if I have derealisation. I  usually feel like nothing and that there is no hope in living anymore. Dark thought come to my mind and they don't scare me. Then other days I'm in a dream like world, like I'm sleepwalking around. I have moments of realising I'm alive and notice whats going on but then I just feel anxious because I don't know what's happened. Most days its either feeling nothing at all, then feeling everything at the same time. I don't see myself in the mirror, its like watching a video of the same person instead of my reflection or my hands look like plastic or from another person. My hands are shaking and I can't control them. I guess this doesn't make sense.


Ok idk if this is anything but whenever I'm in a happy experience I feel like I'm not taking it in idkis that normal


Hi
I don't really know why I'm doing this but I guess it's a way to say something and not have anyone knows it's me.Im so sorry if your reading this,this is prosbly gonna suck.So,I'm relatively young(still in high school) and I think (I thiinnkkk) I may need help.Like I need to get medication or go to a therapist and I know I know something is wrong I can feel it in my brain but my mum hasn't noticed anything so I guess in my head it means it can't be that bad.This is getting ridiculously long and I'm sorry but I just wanna scream what's the point of being here any more god damn it


Idek what's wrong with me if can't even form the words to make out what was wrong with me. It could be depression but I know for a fact I have anxiety I just don't know how severe. I went to go talk to a psychologist, but I don't know how to be verbal about my issues bc idk what's wrong. I am soooo confused with how I feel and my parents won't take me to a psychiatrist bc they don't want me on meds. Bc they think that they won't help bc my mom said she took them when she was a child and they made her feel disconnected from the world. But it affects everyone differently. But they don't understand. My mom says it's part of being a teenager and it's all in my head. And idk what to do. Omg I didn't think it was normal to feel this way when you're a "teenager" but my mom seems to have all the answers. And it drive me fucking mad. Bc I can't talk to anyone bc I can't explain what I feel. And jeez. Does anyone have any advice. I'm probably just rambling. My mind feels like mush like its in a haze of some sort. Idk pls help me someone. 😩😳😢


WOW I JUST REALISED KATIE IS IN SHANES NEW SERIES WOW THATS KINDA COOL


How can you look at people in the eyes if I do I feel like I'm looking at an aliens and feels so unreal in a bad way


thought i just had an iron deficiency thanks


I def have both I think Derealization more!!!!!

Me too! And I’ve been deep in it for 4 years. What scares me is that people say it’s a sign of schizophrenia 😩


I have been dealing with it for 20 years, it’s not a good feeling, I hate it, I am from Saudi Arabia

نزار السالمي


having anxiety is having mental illness?


I suffer with derealization since I've been poisoned by MERCURY I will nev r be the same

Shante Hodges hey did you ever try medication or therapy ?


this was made at playllst☹ i miss it so much


I AM SO CONFUSED I DON'T KNOWIF IA HAVE DEREALISATION OR DEPERSONALISATION LIKE AHHHHHHHHHHHHH (i know i have one, but not which one)

Heyyy was just wondering if you recovered?


last night I woke up and I was seeing visions


Idk. I don’t wanna assume anything, and I’m rly late to this. I dot wanna talk to my friends on this cause I don’t want them to see me as looking for attention. Whenever I’m really the area of mind. I sorta bunch up a lot and stare at something. If I’m with people I have to back away from the group. It feels like a massive weight has been put inside of my mind which makes everything rly loopy and I don’t rly have any attention span or anything. It’s mainly in the evenings but it can happen during the day. I also seriously forget that I’m even a body. Like I’ll look around me and realise that this thing is me. But that’s probably just normal. I’ve never spoken about this with anyone really. Is it normal? Lol. After the one I had tonight I’m genuinely thinking about getting a therapist, but it is 3am, and as we all know. I’ll have probably forgotten it tomorrow. Ahah.


Honestly, I've been dealing with this feeling of being in a constant dream and I never knew what it was. I thought everyone felt like this, but until you started talking about it and bringing attention to it, I had no clue. So thank you for introducing me to what I haven't been able to find in years.


This video is amazing. I'm experiencing a lot of depersonalisation the past year and this has helped me a lot 👍🏻 thanks for talking about your struggles x


Ah this is so great! Kati seems like a wonderful therapist!<br>I'm getting schema therapy for trauma-based depression and anxiety with dissociation and after almost ten years of therapy, it's the first thing that's actually worked for me!

Ah this is so great! Kati seems like a wonderful therapist!
I'm getting schema therapy for trauma-based depression and anxiety with dissociation and after almost ten years of therapy, it's the first thing that's actually worked for me!


Thank you so much for this Dodie, I've been struggling with these and it means literally so much that you talk openly about it


Thanks for making this. I never really knew what was going on in my brain when sometimes things don't feel "real". It started after I gave birth to my son. I never really thought of it as "trauma" but pushing out a human is pretty traumatic, I guess. It only happens sometimes and I can pull myself back in but it's nice to know it's a thing other people experience and it has a name!


as a person with depersonalization/derealization, this is so true and i love the explanation of this video. wish i had people around me that understands this feeling.


I've been told that I did all of my depression and anxiety and everything else by myself and that nothing that had happened to me when I was young could have caused it. I feel so alone tbh and hearing that I'm not this makes me feel like I'm not alone. Thank ya Dodie you have always helped ❤.


A couple weeks ago I had a minor trauma event where I was left alone. I get super spaced out when i'm left alone and I always try to stay aware of things around me. I didn't know what it was until this video so thank you Dodie <3


Thank you so much for this video Dodie. I've had derealisation for almost 8 years now but have never gotten any treatment for it. I'm going to show this video to my mother who I've been trying to explain this to for all this time, and maybe she'll finally see what I've been talking about. Hopefully it'll encourage her to finally find me a therapist 😕 It's really comforting to know that other people deal with this issue, I've felt very alone in it for a while now so thanks again.


Grounding through the senses has really helped me whether it be with depersonalization/derealization, anxiety, or ptsd! Also, I'm so so so happy the two of you got to sit down and make some helpful vids about this topic. I hope it really helps others who may be struggling. ♥


I just told my mom about my depressive feelings. Thank you for giving me the courage to open up to her


I found this video so informative Dodie, loved it!! Kati was great at explaining stuff too :) I would really love for you to keep making videos on mental health because I think it helps so much just for people to hear someone talk about what they're going through or want to understand mental health better.love you <3


Thank you so much for this lovely video! I just recently started going to a therapist for my depersonalization/anxiety/depression, and even after just one session I feel so much better simply knowing that somebody professional is helping me. Like many others, I also didn't know that it could be caused by little traumas. Something I repeated over and over in my session was "I've never been through anything huge, like a car crash or sexual assault. There's no real reason why this is happening." But now it makes sense. Thank you so much!!


this is such a helpful video, thank you so much for making it. ive struggled with dissociation and derealization since i was maybe 8 years old, and hearing people explain exactly how ive been feeling for years of my life helps so much & explains so much about myself. thank you so so much for bringing awareness!!


Thank you for discussing mental health on your channel in a more 'healthier' way for yourself and us as viewers Dodie.


i know you mentioned depersonalization in a passing a while ago and i was like 'hmm. sound's like i feel sometimes.' and after watching this i'm pretty sure i go through mild bouts of depersonalization/derealization, which is good to know for when it happens.  thank you! xx


oh my GOD i’ve been trying to explain this FEELING of not being in my own body (sort of?) and feeling distant from reality and sometimes forgetting i’m a person and looking in the mirror and being supersized at my appearance and THIS IS IT. THIS IS MY FEELING. IT HAS BEEN PUT INTO WORDS. IM NOT INSANE. ITS A REAL THING. THANK YOU SO MUCH.


You two were both amazing at VidCon and spoke about things that really resonated with me! Thank you endlessly you wonderful humans! I also gave you a letter which I really hope you get to read. It wasn't much but I meant every word. Thanks again xo


Damn okay so I just cried all the way through this video. As you were both talking, it just connected to me more and more and it all got a bit much I guess. I've been going through a ROUGH derealisation stage since Friday and have been really struggling. This came at a good time. I find comfort in hearing people talking about it. Thanks <3


wow, thank you both! it was really helpful for me to hear about the "little T's" because i think that has something to do with the 'trama' in my life and why i feel like nothing was a big deal (because i haven't been in a car crash or something like that) so that helped me a lot. i'm trying to get some help and untangle my brain, and thank you dodie for helping me do that.


Dodie you have no idea how glad I am that you made this video. I've told my friends that I don't feel like I feel and I don't process things anymore and I never knew that this is what it is. you described it and it's exactly what I've been dealing with since I was 13. I cried after watching this like you have no idea what this means to me. thank you so much


I've never been diagnosed  with mental illness nor do I think I suffer from it, but this was super interesting! especially all the metaphors/allegories for how trauma and stuff works.


Thank you for this video. I have gotten to the point of feeling so elsewhere everyday I can barely speak. Today when I tried to speak I'd just break down crying. I really want to say thank you for making this because every time I see something like this it reminds me I'm not totally alone


Thank you dodie I struggle with depersonalization and this video helped me you are so lovely 💕


I always love watching your videos about mental health awareness they always make me feel less alone and weird about my health. Also intrigued. I've learned so much about my mental health because of your videos and researching stuff right after watching your videos lol but I would've been slumped if you weren't as vocal as you are now :'-) thank ya!


Kati has helped me so much through out the years❤


This was so comforting Dodie, knowing that someone I admire also deals with this.  I am used to it happening on occasion when I'm to excited. However, I recently dealt with the beasts of derealisation and depersonalization for about a month where it was a constant cloud over my head that I can only really remember two or three moments where I felt like "myself" and that I was emotional human being. It made my already anxious personality worse, and I would attempt to do normal business or hangout with friends and feel like I was watching through a window, like my mind was trapped and my vision often blurred. However, with sleep, medication and therapy I am doing better. It really opened my eyes to what other people go through sometime and all I have to say is if you're in a position to, "get help". It may be hard but if it is difficult to cope with find friends who can listen to you non-judgementally and seek professional help to hopefully help you through the process. I found it hard to put myself and well-being first, but it is important to do so you can enjoy life. Everyone should have that chance to enjoy the things they do.


I literally squealed when I saw thisI've been following Kati since before she was had her liscense and I hadn't been diagnosed with anything yet and I've been following you for god knows how long and I so did not realise how perfect and essential this collaboration was until I sawIt. Thank you for this. I feel exactly like you Dodie and sertralne did not work for Me Either.. at alll. I hope you find what works for you gal and thank you eternallyFor being so open ❤ Xxx


I love the inside out idea of the marble smashing and getting into other memories and experiences because thats so accurate!! I'm going to use that!!


Such a good video dodie!! Have you tried something like yoga or a dance class? I know for me, dancing relieves a lot of stress and makes you feel more connected to your body, like the word somatic I think. ❤


I suffer from the three of them. It's awful, specially when you're in college I think. Something that helps me is touching my fingers with my thumb repeatedly, I don't know why, but it works  for me. Also DBT abilities, though I know it doesn't work for everyone. I love this video, relatable. Thanks


Thank you so much for having me on your channel and for being brave enough to share your story :) xoxo


Zoloft didn't work for my mom, but luckily Zoloft helped me so much! I'm so thankful that you are so open about it, it makes me feel almost normal!


Such a great video!! Learned a lot!! Thank you so much Doddie xx


OH my gosh I love Kati and Dodie! Thanks for this unexpected collab ily guys❤❤❤


This was so interesting and I hope it can help people, thank you. Good luck with your derealisation/depersonalisation


Ahh, I love seeing this talked about <33. I have this nearly every day.


This video was SUPER helpful! Thank you SO SO much for making this. <3


I'm going through some minor derealisation after some news I got today so I needed this video thank you so much


I'm on 100mg of sertraline atm, I've had that dosage for a few months and was on 50mg for several years before. Oddly I've felt more emotional since being on the higher dose rather than robotic or empty feeling. I've felt totally separate from my body for a while now, but I don't think it's severe enough to be depersonalisation and I think it might just be my low self esteem, and as an anxiety riddled depressive I don't try and work out what's going on with me because it's so muddled


I've never had a therapist who was able to understand what i was trying to describe. Thank you so much for bringing her onto your channel, this was so helpful


I'm on 100mg of sertraline atm, I've had that dosage for a few months and was on 50mg for several years before. Oddly I've felt more emotional since being on the higher dose rather than robotic or empty feeling. I've felt totally separate from my body for a while now, but I don't think it's severe enough to be depersonalisation and I think it might just be my low self esteem, and as any anxiety riddled depressive I don't try and work out what's going on with me because it's so muddled


thanks so much for making this. i cannot self diagnose myself but i deal with derealisation 24/7. when looking into it, i didn't realise how much i've put my brain through and i'm so annoyed that its lead to this horrible feeling. i hope one day i will be able to get further treatment but my social anxiety holds me back.


dodie this was such a nice video ❤ very insightful and very helpful


THIS WAS SO INTERESTING HECK! I've never heard of EMDR before but it sounds like it could be super helpful. I'm about to try some person centred attachment based therapy so we'll see how that goes. If not though I may have an alternative to try next yay. Also I'm not sure if my issues are attachment related or trauma related or both. I do think some of my attachment issues are caused by trauma of sorts though so that's interesting...

I'm totally babbling sorry lol I'll stop


Thank you so much for this dodie! You are an actual angel!


This was such a helpful and informative video. Thank you guys so much!!


thank you so much for this !!! it clears a lot of things up aaaah<br>i actually think i get dissociation a lot i really really want to talk to a therapist but im having difficulty convincing my mom to get me there oof

thank you so much for this !!! it clears a lot of things up aaaah
i actually think i get dissociation a lot i really really want to talk to a therapist but im having difficulty convincing my mom to get me there oof


I just want to say, whenever I am on your channel with videos like this, I always tear up or bawl. Always. It's my way of coping but I never cry in public and it's so hard. I stop crying for maybe a month no matter what but the one time I cry after the long while, I can't stop. It feels like I can't control my body and al the tears were the tears that were held in. I watched this video and finally understood what I recently encountered. School recently started and I also went to a concert. While there, I couldn't process it. It felt like I wasn't there, that it wasn't really happening. It links with my depression, i knew that much. But I started to tear up because you always guide me towards the place I want to know or go. You relate to people who think they're alone, and you openly talk about it and want to get better. I thank you so much.


I got a Master's degree in counseling and sadly, my program clearly wasn't very good because a lot of this was new to me. On the plus side, I do academic advising because I think that's where my strengths lie so I guess it's ok that my degree didn't teach me much. But oh, this was so useful. Thank you Dodie.


i just realized and figured out that feeling disconnected and feeling like i’m in a dream and feeling like everything is fake is actually derealisation  i was listening to logic’s song “anziety” and how he described derealisation was how i feel every day. this video helped me. thank you.


I have had a few depersonalized moments several times and it's such an odd feeling and it's very scary sometimes.


That really  helped me out, i've been feeling like "something's wrong" since i was a kid, i always felt like i was "fake" in some way, the best way to explain that was that my body was in another dimension, separeted from my soul, and my body knew that was wrong and that he wasn't supoused to be there and he was trying to find my soul back and giving me small hints so everything looked like a dream os not real at all, i never knew quite how to explain that feeling of beeing spaced out, that really helped me out because now i know that what i feel is not strange at all and i can't get some help and explain better what i feel to my psychologist, thank you very much <3


This is really interesting because of recent trauma I have been getting "flash backs" of the trauma and even some of those little t's and I never knew it had a name. I have done EMDR a lot with my therapist and I do think it works but only with those big recent Ts. We tried doing EMDR with past little ts and it was a lot harder because I had to think more into the past in situation that traumatized me but it was long ago so I have no idea what actually happened.


i honestly thought i was going crazy before you put up your first dp video dodie....thank you so much for educating your audience! i didnt know anyone else felt this way and i thought i was alone, so THANK YOU SO MUCH DODIE FOR THIS YOU REALLY HELPED ME A LOT I AM SO GRATEFUL!!!!!!


dodie!!! thank you so much for this. i know a lot of people don't really talk about this sort a thing so thank you for being open about it all. here's my thing, for the longest time i've had this feeling of a <b>dream</b> sorta thing. when i say that I mean that I'll look back on my morings/days/nights and it all seems very hazy and blurry. like it feels as if it was a dream and has a blur to it. As time goes by interactions become more blurred and less clear. i'm not sure if this is derealization/dp but if people could comment what they think (could it be depersonalization) i'd really appreciate it. i'm starting up therapy again which should be good, i just need some support on my end. it's an incredibly frustrating thing. xx

dodie!!! thank you so much for this. i know a lot of people don't really talk about this sort a thing so thank you for being open about it all. here's my thing, for the longest time i've had this feeling of a *dream* sorta thing. when i say that I mean that I'll look back on my morings/days/nights and it all seems very hazy and blurry. like it feels as if it was a dream and has a blur to it. As time goes by interactions become more blurred and less clear. i'm not sure if this is derealization/dp but if people could comment what they think (could it be depersonalization) i'd really appreciate it. i'm starting up therapy again which should be good, i just need some support on my end. it's an incredibly frustrating thing. xx


O my goodness! This describes me really well actually! I didnt know there was a word for it I just thought it was something weird that happened with me. But I dont think I ever went through much trauma.... But I will feel like I'm in a dream pretty often and occasionally when I look in the mirror it looks off like I'm not looking at myself. And I get the same type of effect when I look at other people when this happens.


I can't express how comforting it is to see someone successful and well known like yourself come forward with having DPDR. I have been struggling with the same thing for almost five years now, and I constantly feel that my experience is isolated - like there's no one who understands what I'm going through. I actually listened to your music for the first time today on my way to therapy for DPDR; I had no idea that you've been going through the same exact thing! Before today I couldn't have named a single popular artist with this disorder, and I'm so happy to say that has changed. I can't thank you enough for posting this video and spreading awareness about DPDR - you have no idea how much this has encouraged me and other people like me. Thank you so much dodie!!


Watching this video, I think I may have a little bit of dissociation. Nothing extreme, it's just that sometimes when I'm feeling stressed about the things going on around me or the future, my brain becomes mush and I can't really process anything. So, even though I can't imagine dealing with the severity of depo/dereal daily, I feel like I can relate at least a little to feeling out of touch with what's going on around you. thank you for being so open about your feelings and using your platform to educate. I'm sure you're aware, but it's very comforting to me and many others  to know that we're NOT the only one fighting these battles


I went on sertrailine for my DP/DR and it's been helping a little bit and making it more tolerable.


the same thing happened to me taking zoloft! i was either at 100% of one emotion or had none at all


Incredibly informative and entertaining. Great job!


dodie!!! a couple weeks ago right before i had a migraine i had an experience where my body didn't look or feel like i was controlling it (it looked kinda like a first person video game? like i was watching my body from behind  the screen and not actually from inside) and it was the WEIRDEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME!!! but thankfully it went away and i didn't even know it was a thing until I watched this video! i guess having episodes of depersonalization before getting migraines isn't uncommon at all but id just never known! thanks for letting me know i'm not crazy 😅


Love you Dodie. Sending good vibes your way bb 🌻


many times i've been having a really great time (usually with my brother or my friend) and i would feel as if i was in a dream almost. i feel like i'm not there and not making decisions, almost if i was watching a film. i asked my brother if he knew what i was feeling and he just looked confused, i guess i thought everybody experienced it from time to time. it doesn't happen often, only a few hours a month. i never thought about it much before dodie started talking about it. next time it happens i'll talk to somebody.

who the FUCK ate my half of the croissant

just to clear up i don't think i have disassociation, depersonalisation, or derealisation. i'm certainly not largely effected by it, but i'd just thought i'd share


Hey! I was on Sertraline for about that amount of time too! It totally sucked for me as well. Kati had the same response that my therapist did. Lots of love to you Dodie, if you're reading this. <3


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M SO HAPPY KATIE MORTON IS MY FAVORITE YOUTUBER OF ALL TIME I'M SO HAPPY YOU DID THIS VIDEO WITH HER. I LOVE U DODIE💗💗💗


I have emailed this video to my GP and my therapist as I keep saying 'i think i have depersonalisation/derealisation' and they keep saying that they don't know what it is and don't know how to help me. I was referred to my local hospital and even the doctor there didnt understand. Thank you so much for this video, I really needed some reassurance today that I am not alone in this (especially even when the professionals are saying lol idk what that is). love you dodie xx


I'm so glad you made this video. A lot of people don't know about this and are suffering without knowing the problem. I, personally, found out what dp/dr pretty soon after my first experience with it, but I know many people haven't even found a name for it until recently. Anyway, I just wanted to so thank you so much :)


This was so helpful for me to understand why i feel this way


Omg I've dealt with this on and off for several years, but I didn't know they were linked to trauma. This got me thinking about all my little T's and now I'm freaked out, I don't know if I should talk to someone or not


I'm young, someone who would have to ask their parents to see a therapist. I've done it before, asked to see and seen a therapist, but it's always really nerve racking and takes me forever (sometimes too like) to get up the nerve to talk to them about it. When you were explaining derealisation and especially depersonalization I understood completely, and knew first hand, exactly what that felt like. If anyone has any tips on asking parents to see a therapist or opening up in general, please help!


I just kind of get this feeling where I'm not really myself. Like I feel like I'm not meant to be where I am, with the people I am with, or even myself because of a random moment that's happened. Like when I straighten my hair I feel like I'm not the same person I really am. Or when someone in my family says something off from usual that makes me get this feeling like I'm not the person I actually am and I'm just in someone else's body.


I think I might have this because when I was younger I would always get the 'fuzzy feeling' where I would just not feel like myself. I would hear a ringing noise and I felt like i wasn't in my body. I still get it sometimes but I try and talk to myself or distract myself to bring me back. I'm not sure if that's depersonalization but I think it's something. It got really bad this one time I ate a weed brownie (I know bad... don't do drugs) and it happened like really bad. I couldn't feel my body and I didn't realize I was alive. I thought I was asleep or dreaming or like in a movie because everything felt so odd. I think it could've been laced with something but it reminded me of my "fuzzy feeling" episodes that I used to get. Idk if anyone else gets those so lmk!


I don't think I have a derealisation disorder but I've definitely have had the feeling enough times to know that feeling. It's not often, like one-two times a month when I'm getting ready to start I get that feeling and I often get really depressed too and it's nice to know what im feeling.


When she was talking about inside out and the smashing of the memory, i just started bawling. The thought of someone or something taking your happy memory and SMASHING it really made me sad.

And that's what happened today in 'What makes Dayton cry'


Thank you so so much you have no idea how much this helped thank you for introducing this to me I didn't know why I was feeling sooo detached and numb such an amazing person tysm


I'm also derealized like 24/7 and this is so important, so many people don't know about it.


(SORRY LONG COMMENT) hello dodie, i want to share my story if it helps because i know what you're going through! i just finished a full tms treatment for anxiety and depression, and the doctor i went to did 35 treatments for each side (spaced out over a month or so of course). i was very hopeless after my 20th-ish treatment because i didn't feel anything different--in fact i felt the way you described being on medication. i sank to the lowest point i've been in years. however, i talked it over with my doc and he said that some patients don't even see results until a month after treatment is done. i'm very happy to say that it eventually stopped maybe 40% of my symptoms! treatment is probably different everywhere you go and they might not have the same effects (especially since we live in different countries), but if tms isn't working after a few tries, don't give up!!! i know it's cheesy, but i know it's difficult to feel like nothing will cure you, i promise there is always a solution. you've inspired me so much during my times of hopelessness, so i hope that these words will encourage you in return :)


I love Kati seeing this is my subscription box made me so happy!💕


my mental illness really got bad when i was in fourth grade, i was admitted into a hospital because of constant anxiety and suicidal thoughts. when i got out they put me on zoloft and i stayed on it for about 4 years. i randomly decided to stop taking it which was <b>not</b> a good decision. i recently went to the doctor and they put me on it again after not taking it for about 6 months maybe? i had already felt alittle depersonalized and the medicine made it SO much worse so i stopped taking it. i went back to the doctor and they prescribed me prozac, because the doctor seems to think i have social anxiety. it's been a journey but i'm slowly getting better :)

my mental illness really got bad when i was in fourth grade, i was admitted into a hospital because of constant anxiety and suicidal thoughts. when i got out they put me on zoloft and i stayed on it for about 4 years. i randomly decided to stop taking it which was *not* a good decision. i recently went to the doctor and they put me on it again after not taking it for about 6 months maybe? i had already felt alittle depersonalized and the medicine made it SO much worse so i stopped taking it. i went back to the doctor and they prescribed me prozac, because the doctor seems to think i have social anxiety. it's been a journey but i'm slowly getting better :)


I have this weird thing where I always TRY to label myself with different mental dissorders. I don't know why, but it makes things a bit confusing sometimes. But after learing more about derealisation, it seems like I might really have this one? Like, it seems like soemthing I've been struggling with since I was little...Idk


I think I might have derealisation? That's the closest thing to describe how I'll occasionally feel. I can clearly remember the last time it happened, I was having dinner with my dad and his friends at my dads house and in the middle of eating, I suddenly space out and have this overwhelming feeling of hate, like I'm incredibly annoyed with where I am but it also feels like a dream. I'm aware of my body and where I am but I just can't stand being there so I just let this feeling take over for a couple minutes and I come back and act like nothing ever happened.


I love just listening to you talk it's so relaxing


Hi so I am extremely confused with my feelings because I can't feel them and have been looking for so long to find what I might have and I heard you guys mention mental Illness with not feeling emotions. What is that called? I would love to figure it out!


I don't have derealisation/ depersonalization but this is actually pretty interesting to learn about.


this video was great people in the internet sometimes don't really teach about mental illness and i'm glad you did this was really great also i love how animated your eyebrows are


Dodie, how do you deal when you really really adore a person but know that you may never get to meet them? I was actually wondering about this as youtube has such a huge effect on people's lives and we absolutely worship the creators. How do we bring ourselves back to Earth and reconnect with our own internal magic? How do we stay content with the now? Thanks :)


I love Kati and Dodie this is a dream come true :')


i've had depersonalization and derealization, and the thing that really helped me was knowing that these things were called illnesses for a reason. these aren't "normal" or everyday things that humans are supposed to live with. it helped me to know that i could rationalize with it... it wouldn't make any sense at all that the world was "fake" or "unreal", would it?! i'm living with an illness, but i can, at least, try to really think through things. i know where i live and i know where i am currently. i'll try to not let my brain (my illness) take over, because i know that it is just an illness. i am fully aware of where i am at this current second, typing this at my computer. i won't let an illness make me think i'm not. even though it doesn't FEEL real and i don't know who i am/what i'm doing here, i know that it IS REAL.
time and "being a human being" is a really weird thing for me, but i know that it IS real, even though it doesn't feel like it at the moment.
^this is just something that helped me, but everyone has their own ways of dealing with depersonalization and derealization. i'm not a medical professional at all hahaha. although, i do hoped that this helped.

for everyone else with dp/dr, keep fighting. xx


I take Zoloft for anxiety 100 dose and I feel a bit crazier like sometimes I don't have a filter and feel hyper... anyone else feel that way?


i just found out that something ive been feeling almost all of my life has a name, thank you <3


I feel like everyone needs to see Inside Out. Especially people with mental issues or people who work with people with mental issues. It just gives a visual image of what goes on in the brain and the labels in the brain. When she talked about the marbles from Inside Out it just blew my mind.


there was a point where after I dyed my hair every time I looked in the mirror I felt like I was looking at someone  else, the person in the mirror wasn't me, it didn't look like me. Sometimes when I look at my hands or arms I feel like they look weird, that they don't look normal and that sometimes they don't belong to me, sometimes when I'm walking I'll look around but I'll feel like for some reason I feel like everything isn't real that I'm not really living, and there are some days where I feel overly joyous, I feel on top of the world, optimistic, I feel good, and other days, well most days, I feel sad, depressed, that I'm alone, anxious, that I feel trapped in my body and I wasn't to disconnect somehow...<br>mainly people don't believe me when I say this or I feel really stupid when I say it because when I say it it sounds weird and odd, or people will think I'm faking, or don't understand at all what I'm saying.... I just needed to get that out there, it feels good to write it down.

there was a point where after I dyed my hair every time I looked in the mirror I felt like I was looking at someone  else, the person in the mirror wasn't me, it didn't look like me. Sometimes when I look at my hands or arms I feel like they look weird, that they don't look normal and that sometimes they don't belong to me, sometimes when I'm walking I'll look around but I'll feel like for some reason I feel like everything isn't real that I'm not really living, and there are some days where I feel overly joyous, I feel on top of the world, optimistic, I feel good, and other days, well most days, I feel sad, depressed, that I'm alone, anxious, that I feel trapped in my body and I wasn't to disconnect somehow...
mainly people don't believe me when I say this or I feel really stupid when I say it because when I say it it sounds weird and odd, or people will think I'm faking, or don't understand at all what I'm saying.... I just needed to get that out there, it feels good to write it down.


ah i feel so much less alone and weird in constantly being derealised, dissociative and/or depersonalised <br>it sucks and I'm trying to recover, I have big ts and small ts so its great fun

ah i feel so much less alone and weird in constantly being derealised, dissociative and/or depersonalised
it sucks and I'm trying to recover, I have big ts and small ts so its great fun


It'so weird, I'm 99% sure I've had nothing in my life that could have caused my depers./dereal.<br>I feel like my derealization and depersonalisation have gotten a lot better recently, without me doing anything to make them better at all. I still have them tho, and I've gotten so used to it that it seems normal - sometimes I  even wonder if life is actually supposed to feel the way it feels for me, if everyone feels the way I do all the time and I'm just exaggerating. What makes me have that thought is, I don't even remember what it's like living without depers./dereal. I have lots and lots of memories from before it started, but I don't remember the feeling of not feeling spaced out, if that makes sense.

It'so weird, I'm 99% sure I've had nothing in my life that could have caused my depers./dereal.
I feel like my derealization and depersonalisation have gotten a lot better recently, without me doing anything to make them better at all. I still have them tho, and I've gotten so used to it that it seems normal - sometimes I  even wonder if life is actually supposed to feel the way it feels for me, if everyone feels the way I do all the time and I'm just exaggerating. What makes me have that thought is, I don't even remember what it's like living without depers./dereal. I have lots and lots of memories from before it started, but I don't remember the feeling of not feeling spaced out, if that makes sense.

Also, that feeling of looking at your own body parts and thinking "wait, whose are these?" is so damn creepy and scary


I love her!!<br>I watch her videos all the time

I love her!!
I watch her videos all the time


man i've been dealing with that for literally 7 years lmao


very great, educational video ! learned so much.


dodie! one thing the really helped me was trauma desensitization because it helps you a lot with my little t's


I've never had the way I felt be put into words... Wow.. I'm speechless. Truly.


Every two months or so I have these weird "tantrums" where I just revert to a little child and start crying over something little. I'm pretty sure this has to do with me being an only child and my parents working a lot, so I do this likely because of attention that I want. However, sometimes when I get really upset and in this fever-y tantrum, I have this weird way of thinking where I feel like my emotions are "fake" and I bully myself into thinking that and just stay in my bed for a good half hour before I feel like doing things "normally" again. I could be dramatizing things, but this may be just a smudge of depersonalization. I don't think I need any professional help, but just identifying things like that is really helpful! Thank you so much, Dodie and Kati!


i get the derealization thing, but only very rarely. Like for a few hours or a few days in the space of a month. I don't know if that's enough to say it's really problem, but there has been times when I've had to take exams in this state, so maybe it is a problem? I don't know, I feel like I have way too much other problems to deal with this too


my brother walked past and thought i was watching oitnb lmao but rlly great and interesting video i feel way more educated than before :)


This will probably not make sense to many people watching this video for a different purpose from me.

Sometimes I think I'm either a highly sensitive person or an empath (still not quite sure which one, don't know if this is even the right term), so watching Dodie's videos like this just sends this wave of emotion to me sometimes, especially while reading the comments here. It's just a different vibe each time. Sometimes strong, sometimes low. but it always results in me building a response, absorbing this information and then applying it in best scenarios in my head.

These videos give me so much insight, but it also makes me wonder when I can help. When can I reach out to these people to see them be happy and free?

Just a penny for a thought.


So many things make sense now.... great video.


i started crying while watching this video, and i don't <b>think</b> i have any type of depersonalization or anything and i started to feel some kind of relation that i wasn't aware of and now i'm crying and my chest is heavy and i almost feel like i'm listening too far in aaaaaaahhhh

i started crying while watching this video, and i don't *think* i have any type of depersonalization or anything and i started to feel some kind of relation that i wasn't aware of and now i'm crying and my chest is heavy and i almost feel like i'm listening too far in aaaaaaahhhh


oh my gosh Dodie and Katie in a vid together, yes please!!!


I think I experience derealization but I'm not sure. I don't want to just label it that, even though 90% of he symptoms check out for me. The last time I experienced this was the first day of school. I had nobody to talk to, I was very very anxious and my body was kind of numb. I never ever feel happy ever, and I haven't for years. I don't even remember the last time I felt truly happy. When my depression gets bad, I space out so bad. I don't hear anything properly, and it looks like I'm in a dream state, from my pov.  It's been like this for 3 years, now that I think about it. I experienced a lot of drama and abandonment before it all got worse and that next year, I never felt like I was there, if that makes sense. Anyway, it can last for a whole day, half a day, maybe even longer than a week and it feels like my brain is mush.


Oh boi this is me. I constantly feel spaced out and it's to the point where I can't remember things? Like I don't reminisce on recent things and the memories aren't associated with emotions even if i had a full on mental breakdown I still don't remember feeling anything. And it's sucks because I go to therapy and they are constantly asking how I feel. Like umm i feel like the world is fake and I don't know who I am anymore because my entire identity was built around being a very empathetic person and now my emotions don't work properly! Also I tried to tell my mom but she thinks I spend to much time googling mental heather stuff and that I'm being some sort of hypochondriac. So no one takes me seriously and I just want to get better.


I don't know if I had dissociation or derealization. i feel like my emotions are all kinda dull. like i can get happy and sad but like i dont get excited anymore. like no excitement or anxiety or anything at all. when i do fun things im like, "wow im doing this thing. cool" lile i know objectively i should be excited and having a good time. but im just, having a time. lmao like not good or bad or anything. idk it's weird. and sometimes my brain feels kinda foggy like theres like a layer between my brain and the real world i dont know how to describe it


Waaoo this is so helpful!  thank you so much !


Great video, thank you! Just wanted to let you know that the link to the video on Kati's channel is actually a link to this video!


okay so watching this... i never really gave thought to derealisation but like now that i now thats what that is i kinda feel like i might have it? i space out a bunch like that where i don't feel like life is real and i thought that might just be a depression thing but like idk? and i can see depersonalisation for me too... just not as much or as often.

i'm already getting treated for depression (and kinda anxiety too bc i take zoloft which is for depression and anxiety thankfully) and i'm in the process of finding a new therapist so maybe i should mention this to them after i get there again?

okay so watching this... i never really gave thought to derealisation but like now that i now thats what that is i kinda feel like i might have it? i space out a bunch like that where i don't feel like life is real and i thought that might just be a depression thing but like idk? and i can see depersonalisation for me too... just not as much or as often.

i'm already getting treated for depression (and kinda anxiety too bc i take zoloft which is for depression *and* anxiety thankfully) and i'm in the process of finding a new therapist so maybe i should mention this to them after i get there again?


I orderd a dodge shirt coming in the mail sooooooon super excited!!!☺


Idk if someone will actually read this but if you do thanks? <br>I feel like i get spaced out but it's more intense? Like I can't hear anything and it's just me and my thoughts. I go in and out of it all day and I just want to know if it's from my anxiety or depression or a whole different thing. If you know or have any ideas or tips please let me know!! Thanks!

Idk if someone will actually read this but if you do thanks?
I feel like i get spaced out but it's more intense? Like I can't hear anything and it's just me and my thoughts. I go in and out of it all day and I just want to know if it's from my anxiety or depression or a whole different thing. If you know or have any ideas or tips please let me know!! Thanks!


This was neato.
I liked this a lot.
Thanks dodie :3


hi i just want to talk abt my experience w smth simillar w derealisation so ive moved fr a house to a small compact apartment and everytime i wake up i dont feel anything and i usually just feel neutral even when smth bad or good had happened i feel neutral or i dont feel anything special and i always feel like the things that are happening to me arent real like moving in to the apartment isnt real or my new uni isnt real like i feel like its all scripted that this is all just a set and then one day ill stop acting and its all going to end. like i feel like this portion of my life is all just play its not real and i guess thats why i feel absolutely nothing bc i think that none of these things even exist it feels like its just painted on or drawn on and idk what to do. i want to smile and say hey i smiled bc im happy, genuinely. or cry bc im sad, genuinely. but lately i feel like i dont feel anything genuinely. ahh can someone tell me what i should do


this actually made me cry WOW this is too real


Just listening to all these different methods for therapy makes me realise how shit my psychologist is lmao


i ADORED both of you on the panel at DC (:


I was diagnosed with depersonalization disorder two days ago


would you describe derealization/depersonalization as feeling like you're just in a body making it act? (does that make any sense?) Like you're just "driving" the body but it's not you

Yes! You can definitely describe it like that. xoxo


Um so I've been in the same existential crisis for a while now. I know this isn't anything super serious. But sometimes I feel like I'm just uninterested in everything because of it, I feel worthless because of how large the universe is (and a lot of other thoughts but I won't go into them here) I just feel like what I do doesn't matter, and that causes me to procrastinate and not pursue the things I want to do. The way I deal with it is also quite bad for me, I do it through humor, now usually humor is a good thing but all my humor is just self deprecating and depressing, I've used this humor so much that now I really believe that I am ugly, that I am trash and worthless, that I don't matter and people wouldn't care if I died or disappeared. It's not like I want to die or anything, but I have this little voice in the back of my head that makes the jokes seem real, but that's the only way I cope with all the terrible thoughts going through my head. You people have any advice or something?


I feel kind of bitter when people talk about anxiety and depersonalisation in general especially. I had them both severely (a lot better now I'm 23) since I was 5, and no one kind of believed me and would kind of make fun of me for it until I was maybe 15. People don't really listen to you when you're like 7 and saying 'nothing feels real'. I guess I find the whole "omg support 4 u" stuff on the internet kind of too little too late? I dunno, but for some reason videos like this and other similar ones kinda piss me off because it's support I never had in my hardest times.


Talk about EMDR therapy because I'm going to go through that soon, my therapist of a year recommended it.

I actually have a whole video about it if you are interested :) xoxo


Now that you're talking about it, i think i used to have tons of bouts of depersonalization. I would sit there and be like,,, Woah,,,im here? but,,, what why how??? these are...my hands??? why are??? i cna do stuff like im breathing.<br>ANd how I belive im experiencing more dissocaiation and drealization.

Now that you're talking about it, i think i used to have tons of bouts of depersonalization. I would sit there and be like,,, Woah,,,im here? but,,, what why how??? these are...my hands??? why are??? i cna do stuff like im breathing.
ANd how I belive im experiencing more dissocaiation and drealization.


Someone please tell me what's wrong with me... I always want to make friends but I'm always so scared to confront people in any way, even if they're my family. The weird part is I'm always loud and crazy around my friends, even around a lot of other people. I also have a feeling that EVERYBODY hates me or thinks I'm annoying in some way and if they are what I believe is a friend, I feel that they hate me and are just trying to make me feel good out of pity. I also don't think highly of myself and feel terrible when people do compliment me and whenever I say something I am always so scared I said something wrong and then x person now hates me. One more thing I do is fidget around a lot, I can't sit still, but I hate when people are really close to me. (Sorry if I'm not making sense, that was a lot of run on sentences😂)

Edit: I forgot to mention that I have terrible memory, I can't read very well, and I am very insecure about it... dunno if that correlates to anything but who cares😂


I'm just gonna write how I'm feeling cause that helps me. Trigger warning I have no control over my emotions. I either am stone cold. I feel nothing. Or I feel too much. I cry and cry and cry. I have no motivation. And then I get insanely anxious. Then I start crying. and then I feel sad. So... Everyone just tells me it's hormones, but I don't think it is. A bunch of random things make me anxious. But I get weirdly happy when i experience these symptoms cause I hate myself so much. It's like a weird form of self harm. Idk   It really sucks. Idk what it is. I might be fine or normal but I don't think so.


I need to show this to my family and everyone who is unsure and is like "WTH IS THAT?!" Whenever I bring it up -_-


That Inside Out metaphor already almost healed my brain goddamn


Hey dodie!! I hate to be a pest but is there anyway that you could put your words higher up on the screen? I was trying to read the definitions of disassociation but my captions made it hard to read. I'm sure it will help other hard of hearing and deaf viewers! Loved the video!


i feel so hopeless because i struggle with this but i feel like all i can do is talk to a therapist but i dont like talking to therapists so idk what to do about it


I have derealisation. It's the most frustrating fucking thing ever omfg. I have it ALL THE TIME. I don't feel it when I'm with my girlfriend though because she's incredible but omg it's horrific


I'm not sure if this is derealisation or anything like that but sometimes it feels like I'm watching myself. Like I'm watching myself do things but not actually controlling them. for example i was eating lunch one day and i couldn't feel the food in my mouth. it was as if i was just watching another person eat but it was me. this probably makes 0 sense but i needed to see if anyone else felt the same, and what i could possibly be?

Just from that description it does sound like depersonalization because you are disconnected from yourself.. thats why you feel like you are watching yourself do everything. I have whole videos on derealization and depersonalization.. you can check those out if you want more info :) xoxo


hey the link in the description redirects you to this video! haha, this was so nice to watch, thank you!!


when you're on a really high dose of prozac and don't feel your feelings...... should i look into this?? probably.... will i.....???


Dodie would love to be friends with me then, I love giving people massages, anytime, so rubbing someone's back to help is like my forte


Dodie can u plz do a video on how u do ur glitter cheeks😂😆


i'm 100% against spanking children.  it is abuse.  it is not discipline, in fact, the 1 that does it severely lacks discipline.  it is way braver to not do it than to do it.  worse, adults can get addicted to the abusive  act.


Holy shit, I'm not a speed reader, Dodie. Still love ya though.


i know this probably sounds attention seeking, but i genuinely need advice ?? i guess ?? aha. i don’t know if what i have is derealization/depersonalization etc. i don’t know if i am depressed/anxious either, as i haven’t been to a doctor or therapist (my family is getting me a therapist soon, they just have to work out insurance issues) but i am suicidal. i actually face anxious feelings on a daily basis, i get this short feeling of extreme fear that basically paralyzes me for a few seconds and causes me to brace myself anytime someone walks by me or if i make eye contact with someone. i also will get lost in thought and forget im me i guess ?? i just don’t feel like a human when it happens. i get so deeply involved with my thoughts and daydreams that i don’t feel human or like i exist... it usually happens every day, for about 30 minutes. then i snap back into reality. i’m sorry for all of this therapist shit, i just need to ask people who have experience with these mental illnesses and stuff. sorry!


I didn't know Kristen Wiig was also a therapist 👉


who is this woman and why do I have the overwhelming need for her to adopt me


you looked so cute in this vid dodie i ❤ u


Babe the link in the description to Kati's channel just links to this one xx


Fun fact: I'm watching this whilst looking up cupcake recipes ?


dodie, that link in the description just goes back to this video!

just changed it!!!  Thank u for reminding me!!!


I have made videos on this topic please check it out x


Dodie I'm sorry but those .5 second long text things are so frustrating, please make them last longer I hate having to go back and try to pause at exactly the write moment 20 times


EMDR was garbage for me. Try CBT/DBT- made the world of difference for me.


I know this might be a stupid question but if anyone with this or knows about it well, but is derealization is that like just dozing off and like daydreaming or is that just not it?


Hey Dodes I don't think the link for katis vid in the description is right?


Dodie you accidentally linked your own video in the description lol


I think I have it and I think the reason is.. Now I will not give out and names but.. my friend once tried to kill herself she didn't and is alive today though still depressed and I'm so thankful but it also put a lot on me because she told me that.. I saved her.. don't get me wrong I love her so much but that can put a lot of stress on me hence yknow... I'm not saying this to make anyone feel bad. This is just my story.


Depression is not true, it all in the mind. It's you and your consciousness, it up to you whether you want to be blissful or miserable. Watch Sadhguru on this topic, it will help. Also if you feel suicidal or depressed just hold your breath. After sometime your body will say Fuck you brain I wanna live and you will start breathing. Your body wants to live.


I have severe derealisation and severe depersonalisation and it is absolute hell. I have not found anyone who is knowledgeable enough to help me and I am not living a life. my days feel like they don't exist and everything is pointless.

D Lockyer this makes me so hopeful, thank you!!! Just knowing that it ends eventually makes life worth living for a while longer. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

I was there for years, but it does get better. It is hell. I never want to feel as I felt at my worst again - ever! Hang in there, it passes. Like a slow thaw from ice bound winter to the first blades of spring grass, to full summer, it slowly becomes something in your past; but, yes, you do have to weather the depths of winter to get there, but you can't let it win.


Fuck this therapist seems like an incredible person.


Good to know now why emdr didn't work for me


I always find a British-American accent uncomfortable 🤷♂


Does anyone feel like they are doing this on purpose<br>and also can nofap cure this?

Does anyone feel like they are doing this on purpose
and also can nofap cure this?


I’m I the only one who notice the expert signed language through the vid or at 7:05 especially


WHAT THE FUCK WHEN WAS THUS VIDEO MADE ?? TWO OF THE BEST PEOPLE I KNOW IN THE SAME VIDEO TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING AM INTRESTED IN


Does anyone else get very forgetful? Earlier a shirt appeared on my bed when I was getting dressed and I don’t remember putting it there. Anyone else?


Seeing this collab makes me so so happy!! Two of my favourite, fabulous ladies in one video :) Thank you for raising awareness of this and fighting against the stigma <3 xxxx


This was AMAZING!!! Thank you Dodie! Thank you Kati! I feel especially fortunate I got to see the mental health panel on Sunday ❤❤❤


I just wanted to say thank you so much for this dodie! Whenever you talk about your derealization/depersonalization I feel so less lonely. Your videos help me out so much when it comes to dealing with it. I also have my derealization 24/7. Thank you so much for spreading awareness about this.


Thank you for posting this Dodie. I have PTSD and dissociation and knowing that other people can be in the same boat as myself, helps those bad times so so much. Here's to hoping that we all get the right treatment one day!<br>You're an amazing human bean xx

Thank you for posting this Dodie. I have PTSD and dissociation and knowing that other people can be in the same boat as myself, helps those bad times so so much. Here's to hoping that we all get the right treatment one day!
You're an amazing human bean xx


Thank you Dodie 💕 Today I've been specially spaced-out which makes me feel very lonely and artificial. This video helped me feel better by reminding I'm not alone. x


I've been experiencing this on and off for about 5 years now and it's weirdly nice to finally know that this thing that's happening isn't only happening to me


last night i told my parents that i've been depressed for the last few years and i kind of regret it because the vibe that i had with my parents has changed and they look at me differently now, but whenever i feel sad or anything i watch your videos. i can't stress how much you've helped me and i don't think i can fully express how grateful i am. thank you so much dodie. thank you.


Thank you so so much for this video. I've been struggling with a mix of dissociation, derealization, and depersonalization for several months now and never fully understood it, which sometimes made the situation worse. But this video filled me with so much knowledge and understanding that I feel like I might be able to handle it a little better now. So thank you so much. I hope things with get better for you soon and that we can all return to reality one day.


I can't explain how helpful and informative this is for me. One of my close friends experiences derealisation, and having this video to learn about what she might be experiencing helps me understand her more than I would without it. (I also experience brief periods of disassociation/depersonalisation, so kind of having this to contextualise those times helps me as well)


This video helped me so much. I've learned that I could have derealisation, which would pair with my anxiety. It isn't a good thing but at least I might know what's wrong me. Thank you, Dodie❤


That marble analogy is really interesting, and exactly how I've realized I feel when I start getting really anxious. It's hard to convince myself that's what's happening and not something actually threatening, but it does help.


I am SO HAPPY that you hung out with and made a video with Kati! I would love love love to see more of these, because I really love both of you and I was sad when you felt like you couldn't be as real with your online community anymore. I started following you because of how open and honest and vulnerable you were about your struggles, and I understand why you took a step back but I'm relieved that you're finding brilliant ways to still share in a constructive and healthy way.


So I was diagnosed with depersonalization/ derealization 2 weeks ago and this video really helped my visualize and understand what's going on in my head. Thank you so much Dodie this truly helped me and I'll be showing this to my therapist on Thursday when I go see her 😊 thank you again 💚💚


Hi Dodie. Thank you so much for making videos like this! I've dealt with depression and anxiety for years. Things have been different and worse lately. Don't know if it's derealisation and depersonalisation but getting some help working on it now. Kloveyouthanksbye 😊


After watching this I'm realizing that this is something that I suffer from. Not necessarily depersonalization, but derealization for sure. Thank you for this video Dodie. Much love :)


This is so helpful. When I started uni last year, I felt so strange. I never really talked about it to other people but I kept writing in my journals that it felt like the real me was dead and someone else's soul had been put into my body and given my memories. I felt absolutely mad until Dodie started talking about it and realized it was a diagnosable problem.


Thank you so much dodie for talking about this in your videos. I've had this for the past few years almost every day, and when I talked to anyone about it they were freaked out, which freaked me out. Now I know that it's an actual condition and it makes me feel so much better because I feel like I can be open about it with anyone and not let myself believe them when they say "oh, it's nothing". Thank you so much. I actually cannot thank you enough.


This really opened my eyes. I relate to a lot of what you said. Thank you Dodie <3 much love


dodie thank you so much for bringing some attention to depersonalization and for making me feel slightly less crazy than i normally do. i know that i'm not alone when i feel like i'm losing my mind


okay this is so eye opening. and i think i understand myself and what i'm dealing with better ❤  thank you so much. keep pushing dodie:)


I just want to say thank you! <br>After this video I cried. You put a language to the way I felt and I'm one step closer to understanding what's going on in my head.

I just want to say thank you!
After this video I cried. You put a language to the way I felt and I'm one step closer to understanding what's going on in my head.


this video inspired me to finally seek help for my anxiety/depression/derealization. Thank you for all that you do dodie. i just got off the phone with my unis health center and i'm shaking, but i'm finally going to get help. i love you.


Thanks for talking about this. I experience derealisation and depersonalisation as part of other trauma-related diagnoses, also to the point where it's 100% of the time, and I took forever for me to be able to articulate and recognize that I was dealing with it because I didn't remember ever being able to feel anything else. In the past few months though, I've had some fleeting moments (a couple seconds to a couple minutes) where I feel more real and/or things around me feel more real, and I'm reminded of how I used to feel as a little kid before these issues took over. It's pretty cool. I find it best to work on grounding/awareness/trying to feel things as a little more real when I feel relatively safest. It's like building the muscle (or changing brain pathways) and starting small. It's more encouraging that way, to have some successes every now and then.


This was so interesting and informative. It helps people (like me) understand people suffering from these kind of things. It has really inspired me to find out more, thank you :)


Ugh I love both of you! <br>This was so informative bc I struggle with dissociation

Ugh I love both of you!
This was so informative bc I struggle with dissociation


Dodie I love you so much i've been fully experiencing this recently I thought I was going crazy. Thank you ❤


I think this was really brave and an amazing video to make. It was very educational and I needed it. I went through what I'd describe as trauma last year and it has to go through the legal system and whenever I'm in a situation with the police, I find myself almost drifting out my body and watching from the outside. Sounds seem like I'm underwater. It's horrible and I hate being so disconnected from my feelings. I feel so out of it and empty and spaced out.
Now, I'm going through a similar experience to what happened last year although it's less serious and when I'm in the situation where it's happening to me, I float out again so that I don't feel. It feels like a defense mechanism but I can't seem to ground myself and I feel like I'm just going to end up floating away for good.
I have a counselling session tomorrow but I'm scared to talk about it because I don't want it to seem like I'm self diagnosing.
Does anyone have any tips?


Thanks so much for this! It's given me a better insight into what one of my close friends is going through and I'm glad I know how to help a little more.


I'm on anti anxiety medication and I definitely feel like it lessens my panic responses to anxiety but it doesn't go away completely


as a psychology student this is such an interesting vid! even in our psychopathology module, we only cover depression, ocd and phobias (and schizophrenia as a separate module) to it's so cool to hear more about something less well known!!


As a subscriber with DPD, I'm so glad to have such a big YTber talking about this. thank you!! I loved it


This video was so interesting and informative, this is very important content. There are so many kinds of therapy and of course not everything works for everyone. I do not suffer with any kind of mental disorders and understand that am not qualified to give advice to those who do, but I would like to share a kind of therapy that I didn't hear in this video, which is EFT tapping. EFT stands for emotional freedom techniques and it is a wonderful mixture of talk therapy and physical tapping. It is also something you can do at home once you've been instructed by a practitioner. It can bring up negative emotions and trauma that is being locked away. I encourage you to look into it and visit support@NeftTI.com if you're interested.


I've been experiencing depersonalization/derealisation since april of this year and i juts thought i was flat out going insane but its comforting to know that I'm not the only one dealing with this. I  always try to tell my mom how i feel but she just blows it off because she just thinks I'm trying to get attention or I'm just being weird. hopefully someday i won't have to be going through this anymore.


this is so interesting, thank you!! <br>another treatment you could try is hypnosis therapy (don't know if this is the exact right term in english): i think it's basically like talk therapy but being hypnotised "forces" you to say out loud things that might be buried in your subconscious (my brother has done it bc he had insomnia and it made him realise that it came from the trauma of a car crash he was in a year before, my mom has also done a session and she encourages me to try it for my anxiety but i have to admit i'm a little scared; i might look into tms treatment though)

this is so interesting, thank you!!
another treatment you could try is hypnosis therapy (don't know if this is the exact right term in english): i think it's basically like talk therapy but being hypnotised "forces" you to say out loud things that might be buried in your subconscious (my brother has done it bc he had insomnia and it made him realise that it came from the trauma of a car crash he was in a year before, my mom has also done a session and she encourages me to try it for my anxiety but i have to admit i'm a little scared; i might look into tms treatment though)


i've suffered from both depersonalization and derealisation for several years thinking i was the only one who had it because i could never describe it to people properly. i understand that it plays into my anxiety (like how you were talking about panic attacks in the beginning) but it lasts 24/7. there aren't any counselors that specialize in either in my area, but thank you dodie for making me feel less alone <3


Oh buddy this hit me harder than I thought it would. I've been feeling spaced out now for maybe two years.
I didn't really know what all of it meant. I was so detached from my body and sometimes from situations I thought I was just going crazy. I was really scared to be honest.
 I then found dodie and everything clicked together. Unfortunately it got worse after this had a name. For a while I thought I might've been making it up. Not until I talked to my mom a few months ago and I described what I was feeling and it turned out she has very similar symptoms as well. It's hard getting any help in the town I live in. It's not something people know about. There's no treatments here really. I know going to a bigger city would help, but money is always the issue I guess.
This is grounding a little scary I think, but I'm hopeful now hearing all the possible treatments out there.


i didn't know derealisation/depersonalization was caused by trauma. no wonder mine is so damn terrible. i've had a lot of big traumas such as....
-car crash (lol)
-moving towns and feeling scared
-having spinal surgery at 12
-my sister almost dying after a half marathon
-having chronic pain from my spine
-having this past year and a half [extreme pain due to being severely injured and not well treated (there was nothing to help but pain meds and time)]
plus all the tiny things as a kid. i take ADD medicine (my whole fam actually has ADD) and i feel so much more grounded when i take it. this has helped me realize how accurate this diagnosis (self-diagnosed currently) is for me. thank you dodie 💛


Thank you so much for this video. I recognise so many things from when I was still on medication and therapy.


This woman is brilliant. Oh my gosh. I need more of this. Explanation really helps!


This was incredibly informative and very interesting to watch. I didn't know about half of those treatments.


Now I know what I have. I've been trying to figure it out for years and when I watched this video, I started bursting into tears. Wow. Thank you.


I have my second EMDR therapy session tomorrow and I'm really excited but nervous. thanks for this video.


I personally don't have any of these disorders but i really love learning about things like this and understanding what other people are going through and what causes it and how to help them so thank you for this video and all of your videos for that matter


Than you for sharing this. Even though I personally can't really relate to any mental health issues (and hopefully i never will) I find mental health to be very interesting and I try to learn about issues more and ways to help people dealing with them so that I can be helpful to my friends and even myself if the situation ever arose. Also I'd like to remind anyone going through a rough time mentally, that it will get better. Maybe not today or tomorrow but it will and there are steps you can take towards making your life better and you aren't alone, there are so many people dealing with similar issues. We all believe in you, you can do this :)


Great video!

Thank you so much for doing this. I learned something today that is HUGE.. I mean HUGE for me. I learned that EDMS does not work for people with derealization. I had no idea. I actually learned thru Kati about derealization, I don't have it all of the time like Dodie (sorry love :( ) but do have it and distinctively recall the first time it happened. I was in a mall and all of a sudden the noises seemed distant and distorted and the entire.. well everything in my visual got softer, almost blurred in a look of underwater or dreamlike. My feet were disconnected from the floor.. I didn't feel like I was there and even the person standing with me and speaking with me sounded so far away.

I guess I did not realize that it was a separate issue and thought it was part of my PTSD so I hadn't mentioned that feeling to my therapist. I mean, why would I? I thought that he already knew. Then I was beating myself up for not being able to get to the next stage in EDMS. I thought there was something wrong with me, and there is but just not what I thought.

I am trying to work up into going back to therapy and this information is something that I feel will be quite helpful. Thank you both, Kati and Doddie, so much!

PS. @doddlevloggle The link in your video links to the actual video on this page rather than the video on @KatiMorton's page:

https://youtu.be/3xcuTRwBNCs


medication really depends on the person. Zoloft doesn't work for you, but it does for me ! i've been on zoloft for four months now and i feel better.<br>i do feel derealized 24/7 but my depression got way better :)

medication really depends on the person. Zoloft doesn't work for you, but it does for me ! i've been on zoloft for four months now and i feel better.
i do feel derealized 24/7 but my depression got way better :)


this is so important. I experience dissociation/derealisation/depersonalisation and seeing just normal relaxed talking videos on the subject and informative videos is so important.


Such an interesting video dodie. Kate seems like an amazing therapist, she has such a soothing nature. I hope you find the right treatment for you very soon 😘