Dear canary:

You are welcome. The key is to lessen your anxiety, not to eliminate it (I don’t think that there is a single person who is free from anxiety). You are already familiar with mindfulness/ grounding yourself in the here and now, and various other techniques and practices for lowering anxiety. The more you lower it, the less depersonalization and derealization that you will experience.

I experienced both (depersonalization and derealization myself) and I am glad to report that healing and recovering from these two experiences is possible: it happened to me and to many other people. It takes practice, as well as better choices in life overall: whenever possible, choosing the people and the situations that calm us vs people and situations that stress us out.

anita