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Posted 11/16/2012 4:27 PM (GMT 0)
Hi guys,

For the last 2 years of my life I've been experiencing chronic depersonalization and derealization. Not a minute has gone by without me feeling dead, detached from my personality and detached from the world.

I'm currently in therapy to try and get to the bottom of the issue and understand why it might be happening, but I'm also looking for other explanations.

I am a member of a forum for people who suffer from dissociative disorders and one guy was relaying his experience about Lyme and he said that people who suffer from chronic DP/DR should be tested.
I suddenly began to think about how I got very sick in Thailand while travelling with Dengue fever, which left me feeling incredibly weak and hollow for some weeks after I got out of hospital over there, and wondered if perhaps this may have had something to do with Lyme aswell?

Dengue is carried by mosquitoes but can't they pass on Lyme too?

Anyway, I'm at a loss. I don't remember being specifically bitten by a tick, only a leech when i was in Vietnam but I don't think that could have affected me this chronically and this strongly for almost 2 years.

The only symptoms i have are depersonalisation, fatigue and stiff neck, but included in the dissociation are many other symptoms such as very low sex drive and low energy.

If anyone has personal experience of depersonalization and Lyme's disease I'd love to hear from you. Thanks.
Posted 11/16/2012 7:15 PM (GMT 0)
Maybe, u have lymes, worth checking out a llmd to see.

I suffer from this, I already had lymes, did not not it, and went overseas, got a really bad fever the day before my flight back to usa, did not know about dengue fever then either,
I think I got that,
I will have to google more about dengue fever nts. ( i wish I did not go overseas, esp with
stuff in Iraq, afghanstan, I mean, jeez, people on a plane could walk in with a bug attatched to their coat or something, chem trails, i dont know, all I know, if I could rewind time, I would not have gone, I dont even remember the trip anyways except getting so sick at the end)

I came off the plane, with depersonalization, and I have not been the same since
I went to a tai chi class after, and just stood there, unable to speak, and just starring off, like I had become autisitc, or like in a vegetable type state, I soon had joint problems, and was not strong enough to open a door to stores I had been to before, I could hardly walk, or think. I had bells palsy and my hair started to fall out, gastro probls, neuropathy, ....

Today I have it big time, I went out, cause my feet have been iflamed, and I needed new slightly wider shoes, well the shoes I had dont fit

and I had to cut the time out to the mall short
I only looked at two stores, but taht was it
I estimated the time I had to drive home, and knew

that I am out I went to kfc drive through to order a grilled chicken breast, and I couldnt speak right
dont remember the total, just handed her a 20 bill and hoped I got the right change back

so my life is very limiting, and horrific, I will spend hte rest of day resting and coming back ot computer
Posted 11/18/2012 10:13 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Midnight!
Welcome to our little spot here!! I'm so sorry to hear of what you are dealing with! Yes, depersonalization and derealization can be a part of Lyme disease - or other tick-borne infections.

Just because they are called tick-borne infections doesn't mean that many other insects can carry these same diseases! It's now known that not only mosquitoes, but gnats, fleas, biting flies, bed bugs, mites - most anything that can bite a person and survive to bite another has the potential to carry these infections. That's not to mention that a tick can be quite literally as small as the period at the end of this sentence, so it can go unnoticed quite easily.

As WWJD has suggested, I would also highly encourage you to read through the "New to Lyme? Start here!" thread that sits at the top of our forum as it's packed full of important information, symptom lists (which I would really encourage you to go through), informative links and more! It's possible that you have more symptoms of these infections than you realize.

These infections are incredibly complex infections, so in order to knock them down so you will want to find a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD), or use a Holistic Practitioner to heal from them. If you need help in finding a Practitioner, please let us know - hopefully we can help you find one.
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