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One of the most effective ways to combat this condition is to avoid thinking about it... at least for me! after almost 4 years im close to remove the oppressive exercise of thinking about this all day. So eventually i check the forum looking for something new, and nothing more.
Lot of work, exercise, music, i have bad days and good ones like everyone .. biggest concerns than HPPD right now... BUT time is a big healer, i think.

At least, i abandoned the fatalist/pesimistic road.

Hope everyone is doing well.

PD: apologize my english, im very tired

I have tried st johns wort for two weeks and i cant really say nothing about it, it can be helpful with some mood issues but maybe was a placebo effect, no changes in visuals or DP. I will need to stay on it for 3 months to really talk about its effects. 

Did you experience any change in dp-dr with keppra?

I wasnt notice anything during my trial with sinemet. I think is more related with the DP-DR, anxiety etc but im on modafinil since yesterday and right now im experience some weird changes in my pupils, also my visuals are worse. I will stay on this med for a couple of days and see what happens... i know modafinil affects in someway dopamine receptors. 

I was exactly like you when this crap started, the klono/clonazepam make everything "almost normal" dp dr mostly. 0,5mg was enough to bring me back to earth, i remember the first year and that feeling was amazing... but be CAREFUL.. i develop some extremely disturbing mood changes and paranoia. My dose now is between 0.5mg-1mg (once a week a need a little more to sleep really well). Now the klono calms me down a little but the great relief of the first times is over (im sure it will be back if i take 3mg but thats not the point).

My advice, take the minimal dose and few times per week. The benzo's wd's and dependence is really a HELL.

I have that too... just a little bit bigger than pre-hppd... my doctor says is "normal" but i have my eyes all of my life and a i know he's wrong. 

Just a few times, my pupils go really really dilated, like if i was on lsd..its very scary. 

Thanks for sharing that article dude... it will help me a lot with my doctor.  

From the article:

I got some St johns wort today too.... i let you know any change in two weeks.

All the best!

I miss cannabis! I always think to replace the klono with weed but for me its too dangerous. How was the 'trip'? any visuals changes? DP DR agraviation?

I hope you can enjoy weed without danger....just be careful

Okey, i know its probably a bad idea, but i found this very interesting on dpselfhelp.com.

From wiki:

Tabernanthe iboga or simply iboga is a perennial rainforest shrub and hallucinogen, native to western Central Africa. Iboga stimulates thecentral nervous system when taken in small doses and induces visions in larger doses. In parts of Africa where the plant grows the bark of the root is chewed for various pharmacological or ritualistic purposes. Ibogaine, the active alkaloid, is also used to treat substance abuse disorders. A small amount of ibogaine, along with precursors of ibogaine are found in Voacanga africana.

Addiction treatment:

Outside Africa, iboga extracts as well as the purified alkaloid ibogaine are used in treating opiate addiction. The therapy may last several days and upon completion the subject is generally no longer physically dependent.^[3] One methadone patient said in the Dutch behind-the-news show NOVA that in just four days he reached a state that normally would have taken him three months, but without the agony. Evidence suggests that ibogaine may also help to interrupt addiction to alcohol and nicotine. The pharmacological effects are rather undisputed with hundreds of peer reviewed papers in support but formal clinical studies have not been completed.^{[citation needed]}

In the United States, these clinics are illegal but exist nonetheless, providing treatment for a wide variety of addictions

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Some people on dpselfhelp have been cured depersonalization with this root

http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/index.php?/topic/33612-iboga/

http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/index.php?/topic/32151-there-is-a-suppressed-cure-iboga/

and there's some interesting info on this website http://www.ibogahouse.com/depersonalization-natural-treatment/

I think this root and its effects are similar to mushrooms... for us isnt a good idea take more hallucinogens... but i wont lie... when you have depersonalization you want to try everything to stop this dream-like state.

415, here are some hppders' who dont have dp dr, only visual symptoms. I think we can do some training into our brains to ignore the visual disturbances as a sign of danger. In fact, in vipassana meditation you can learn something like that.

Thanks a lot!

EXACTLY.

My case is the second moon, and imrpove a liitle with magnesium (and sleep really well)

So....who's gonna try these antibiotics?

ondeday: When i dont forget to take it, magnesium only calms down a bit and clear my vision... the visuals are still present but i dont know exactly how to describe the improvement..  for example: Usually the moon looks like it was out of focus, a kind of "double moons". With magnesium (and a lot of vitamin C) that "double vision" improve a little.

Interesting, thanks for sharing jay, is always great see some alternative to benzo's

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Maybe you need to try the tincture, im going to try it next week. Are you taking any other med qwerty?

Very interesting! Im currently looking for a cycle or something to get off the klono, i will try it! Thanks for the info

Cuando hice mi testeo del sinemet, tampoco conseguía la versión 100/25, de modo que tuve que empezar con la 200/50 y partir la pastilla en 4. No me fue para nada bien, me sentía mareado y raro. Es dificil de explicar lo único que logré fue transformar mi visual snow o estatica en un bloque solido al cerrar los ojos.

Si tienes alguna otra duda mandame un mensaje privado, creo que sos el primer forista de habla hispana que encuentro (espero, sino escribi todo esto en castellano como un boludo)

Im agree with gobigorgohome.
Maybe not all, but many (at least me) tried to replace with marijuana or (put your drug here) or some other substance to evade some shortcoming /problem. Yes, it can be really a recreational drug use (or maybe not), but for one reason or another we chose that and not "paragliding" for example.

The HPPD made ​​me realize that drugs its just a feeling, an emotion we are buying, rather than generate it ourselves, something that is much more difficult and not immediate. This system we live gives us all procesed, fast and easy, and it's a real adventure to get out of that scheme and build ourselves.

The only activity that has affected my hppd is the social life "at night". Even before the incident i had a tendency to lock me in my house and depresse me, something with I have to fight even more now. For the rest, the daily routine remains the same:  work in the morning, a short afternoon nap, gym, play a musical instrument, cooking and read before sleeping. Always if i can, i travel to any place far from the city, in touch with nature: D.

HELL.

Like a bad trip of weed, dreamstate..... bad memory, some depression, madness, absence of ego (i really do that? it was me?)

I took melatonin for two months without any significant result, only a little better rested. From what I can talk about is that being away from social life-work and stay focused/sober on what you really like and really resting well, im not aware of the visuals.

Helps me with everything. Not only with dp-dr, visuals too, anxiety and muscle tension. That crap is very addictive.

I do not remember exactly in which forum of drugs i read something like that the HPPD not exist and if so, we were "a band of drama queens". There were many people who continued using drugs and enjoying the HPPD.  At that moment I had wanted to 'launch' like a missile my computer out of my house. I dont think Puppeter wanted to express something like that....i thinks is more "if you cant against them, join them" philosophy.

I dont know exactly if i enjoyed the HPPD, but many times I have felt a great peace watching the sky and think "I'm lucky to be alive" and i am very grateful for that.