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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naloxone

"A recent Russian study has shown that naloxone can be used to successfully treat depersonalization disorder. According to the study: "In three of 14 patients, depersonalization symptoms disappeared entirely and seven patients showed a marked improvement. The therapeutic effect of naloxone provides evidence for the role of the endogenous opioid system in the pathogenesis of depersonalization."

I've been saying this for awhile now. Although Opiates and Opiods can be extremely dangerous if abused/misused, I believe they have a very important role to play for HPPD/DP/DR in the sense that NO other medications to my knowledge can reduce dissociative disorders as rapidly and thoroughly AT THIS POINT IN TIME compared to this class of drugs.

Not only do Opiates/Opiods dramatically reduce dissociation disorders, they are very effective at reducing visual symptoms from HPPD and other neurological disorders that corrupt the visual system. I think this fact is heavily tied to the characteristic of Opiates that shrink pupil size thereby reducing the amount of light that enters.

Thanks for the reply.

Some strains are really good for inducing sleep, the "Black Afghan" strain is probably the best. But I don´t think I´ll ever use any cannabis again, since I also have psychological problems related to an PTSD episode. There´s a too much risk too use it.

On the previous forum, I read that some used Melatonin against sleep problems. I know it is the sleep hormone, does it work good? And most importantly, does it have any annoying side effects?

I've used melatonin before and honestly i dont like it. I got ridiculous hangovers from it and it made me feel like a zombie for half of the next day. Also if you get into the habit of using it a lot, it has the potential to reduce your own body's melatonin production.

Everyone is different though and melatonin is definitely effective at inducing sleep. Give it a try.

Nice to see another familiar name.

Feel lucky that you do not have the dissociative problems that some have. I think most will say that dissociation is a psychological response from seeing the visuals but i believe it's a malfunctioning in specific areas of the serotonin system. My reasoning for believing this is because there are plenty of chemicals that induce states of dissociation. Salvia and...DMT (Is that the right one) are the first 2 that come to mind.

Rofl they were considering obesity as a psychiatric illness? That's the problem with western medicine. They want to treat EVERY problem of human nature with a pill. If they really wanted to go this route 2-4Dinitrophenol is the only thing I know that can be taken as a pill and raise metabolism. I dont recommend this by the way nor advocate it so no one do this.

I went and saw my doctor back home before I went to school, and it seemed like I was going to get some keppra. And then nothing happened. I think I'll book an appointment with the hospital on campus and see what they can do. maybe they will put me in a "study" or something

I tried Keppra up to 1500mg daily and I got absolutely no results from it. I'm anxious to see if they release anymore lab testing or case reports on accurate observations of what the chemical actually does. The last i've read about it is that they had a limited understanding of it's ability to slow down vesicle transporter proteins for neuronal communication and that was all.

I have a problem with teeth clenching too and my GP said my teeth are grounded down way too much for someone my age (22). I like to think it's because I have problems with controlling my emotions and when I become somewhat agnry or agitated the first thing I do is clench my teeth. It's hard to control it when it's a type of subconcsious reflex.

Some may disagree with me on this and although I dont use anymore myself, certain strains of marijauna are very effective for inducing sleep. Too much disrupts sleep cycles but a few doses or "hits" before bed usually does the trick. I know most people's lifestyle, epecially if they're afflicted with HPPD, cannot allow this.

One example of how this can work without swallowing somewhat dangerous pills for sleep everynight is that my friend was diagnosed with insomnia in 7th grade and had been taking anti-psychaotics just to induce SLEEP. After he started smoking at night before bed (he doesn't do it at any other time during the day) he has been able to stop taking the AP's and has never had a problem with insomnia since.

I was just wondering who has trouble with neon lights since I don't hear it mentioned so much. I guess this comes more from shroom hppd than lsd. Mainly street lights, car lights, any artificial light basically that's kind of bright or neon like. Has this gotten better for anyone? If so from what? Thanks

I'd imagine everyone does who has visual disorders.

Okay, but adderral is know as a cause of HPPD (says wikipedia) and speed is not? (at least not to my knowledge)

As far as I know Adderall is not a trigger for HPPD. HPPD is caused by serotonin agonists and drugs that bind to serotonin vesicles and release too much at once. Adderall does neither of these nor does it even have any activity whatsoever in the serotonin system. It's activities are strictly norepinergic and dopaminergic.

what's that got to do with anything?

I dunno. Most of modern day psychology is based off of his "work" which i believe to be complete crap and mostly false. I guess I was just backing up the OP's sentiments on the subject.

I dont think so but i'm not completely sure.

ARMAGEDDON HOLY SHIT!

Aint nobody gonna breakeh my stride. aint nobody gonna slow me down.

A fun experiment you can do is whenever your visuals are more prominent than usual, look at your pupils in a mirror and see how large they are.

Freud as in Sigmund Freud? His theories are bogus. He was a known communist.

From what i've read on the literature describing the neuropharmacology of Mitazapine, it sounds like it has heavy activity in the serotonin system and it is said that the drug is very thorough in preventing cluster, tension, and migraine headaches. The current understanding is that these headaches can arise from a sort of malfunctioning of the serotonin receptors.

More and more evidence points to the 5-ht2 receptor theory for HPPD causation.

Thumbs up on the initiative taken to grasp this opportunity for yourself. I'm always in favor of HPPD discussions with other people though the material is a lot to type out consistently on a forum board however this is the easiest place for communication and comes of no charge to us so lets utilize it.

I think the severity of symptoms issue is a bit miniscule when talking about the overall level of distraction HPPD and similar/co-morbid symptoms have on a person's life. If I were you I would focus on mechanisms that are known to the people you'll be counciling that help take their minds off of it even though that can be difficult in the beginning for most.

How much and what kind of reading have you done so far? I've read a lot of the published medical journals concerning the different levels of neurophysiology/neurobiology/genetic factors that play into the role of persisting visual disorders as well as dissociation.

I'll be glad to talk about these areas with you on here.

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