Comfortably Numb Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Hey, I was on the old -- and I suppose now defunct -- forum for a few years as page of zeppelin. I moved to Philadelphia for grad school. I've had a pretty serious case of HPPD -- worse visuals than I've heard anyone else describe -- for about six years now (and still made it to grad school...phew), and have still yet to meet someone in person with HPPD or even depersonalization. Anyone around the area? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br0k3nS41nt Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 I am close if you consider the other side of the state close. What are your symptoms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keep positive Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 I'm in Delaware...and coincidentally starting grad school in two months. Things you can accomplish with HPPD: 1. Get your MBA 2. Get married - I got married in June. There's hope people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerry sandusky Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 Hey man, I got a pretty awful case of HPPD going on and I'd love to meet someone in person. I live in the suburbs 20-25 min outside of phila...and I'm right by the PA=DE border. I'm only sixteen, but I have my license. You guys seem a little old but I'm sure theres a way it could work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdubpro Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 I actually go to College right outside of Philadelphia. 4 year marijuana-induced hppd-er here! Woo Hoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comfortably Numb Posted December 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Nice, I'm actually not old -- I'm 24. But I got my HPPD freshman year of college, when I was 18, which makes me a six-year veteran (can't believe how much times has passed with this son of a bitch). Glad some of you are in the area. It's just struck me as more and more bizarre that I've been facing this private, unique issue in silence -- at least in "real" life -- without being able to really share it with anyone. I've told a few friends and stray people, but the reaction is predictable: "Huh?" None can really grasp it. Reminds of the famous line of Alduous Huxley from Doors of Perception: "We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies--all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes." I've carried on nonetheless, like all of us have to. But the whole idea of it is somewhat depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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