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Hi, I hear what you`re saying, I think there is a bundle of symptoms involved in Hppd but at the same time I don`t think they are all necessarily from the same source. Often disorders have a core symptoms and then related accompanying conditions but these accompanying or co-conditions are still seperate conditions. If we look at it that way I think its the only way to make progress, Hppd is definitely a neuro-chemical problem and so therapy etc wont help, but if we say all the rest of it is neurological we give up hope of alleviating the co-conditions before we begin. For a week or two after I took a hallucinogen(my first and only), I had no dp/dr depression anything whatsoever then one day when I was reading up on salvia(which I loved at the time) I had the mother of all panic attacks(where I beleived I was being pulled back into salvia world) and the dp/dr etc etc began, i.e it began separately a whole fortnight later. It was fuelled by massive traumatic anxiety which I`ve never really let go of, in part I think because I convinced myself it was all a brain problem but nearly everyone says dp/dr is an anxiety problem not a brain problem(by brain I mean neurological). I think if we don`t learn to deal with each element of our conditions in their own way we will doom ourself to stay depressed and hopeless. For years and years I obsessed about finding the silver bullet, I`d take a pill and everything would be okay, just this week I was online shopping for high dose niacin, 5htp etc but realised it was pointless.

Hi All, It may sound like a strange question, especially coming from someone who has been suffering with Hppd for over ten years. (This is my first post for years and years but I was a regular poster on the original site. username CleebridgeFinest) But I`m still not clear what really constitutes `Hppd`, as far as I understand Hppd is just the `visuals`, afterimages, `static` etc etc. Some people also report other symptoms, Dp/dr, head pressure etc are these seperate conditions or manifestations of a `greater hppd`? To be honest, initially I thought Hppd was like a death sentence, that one can`t live with it, like being diagnosed with HIV or something, but over time I`ve kind of realised its really not a big deal...at all! The ammount of millions of people walking around with much more severe and truly serious mental health conditions, everything from parkinsons to psychosis. They are conditions that make life almost un-liveable. I`m not trying to make light of hppd, five years ago I would never have contemplated writing this and wouldn`t have accepted it if someone told me this, my theory is that there is a very high link between people with hppd and OCD and similair pyschological conditions. I know of cases of people who have ingested hallucinogens developed hppd and never `realised` they had a problem, just they had slight visual abnormalities that weren`t worth much of a second thought. Its like is a house spider wanders onto someones hand, one person will jump a mile and find it traumatic while another person will calmly brush it off and not care. My problem now is with a kind of dp/dr(assumed), I`ve accepted the Hppd part and that its not that big of a deal and is a very minor impairment that I have to learn to stop turning in my mind into something more important than it is. I`m hoping I can deal with the non-hppd side separately and try to fix what I can fix and and let go of what I can`t. Bringing it back to a question, what are the boundaries of hppd? Any comments or thoughts would be appreciated.