I've had depersonalisation/derealization for 9 months.It's when your surroundings and everything around you doesn't seem real.I can't take it anymore!I can't concentrate in school,I can't sleep,I can't sit still,or do anything anymore!I don't know what to do.I've tried going to therapists.My mom doesn't want me to go on medication,but what can I do?I feel like I'm crazy and I'm dead!I'm 13/f Depersonalisation disorder is one of the many different disassociative disorders. Talk therapy is the suggested treatment since there is not medication that treats the disassociation per se. They would prescribe medication for any secondary issue associated with it like depression, anxiety or insomnia.
Info on disassociation disorders here:
http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Bookl... Your mom is being ignorant. I don't know what you CAN do, since the meds are expensive and prescription, and you're 13. Try a therapist again, let him know that your mom refuses to allow you to take the meds, there may be a way to over-rule her legally, altho it will be an ugly scene to do it. I would say that it is warranted in this case. Depersonalization disorder will make you feel that way. Please keep trying to convener your mother that you need more support. Keep telling her so much that she gives in.
I know what you are going through and it is not easy. I am so sorry that you have to experience such a dreadful disorder. You are not crazy! It will make you think that you are though. | 