Did anyone else with DPDR ever feel “different” or even superior to other people sometimes?
Hi everyone
I wanted to ask something that used to scare me a lot during my DPDR episodes.
Sometimes during severe derealization/depersonalization, I would feel strangely disconnected from other people and occasionally even feel “different” or somehow superior to them. I hated these thoughts and they made me panic. I kept thinking: “Am I a narcissist? Am I becoming schizophrenic?”
The feeling was not enjoyable at all. It actually made me feel lonely, emotionally detached, and guilty. It was more like I felt separated from normal human connection rather than truly believing I was better than others.
Now, after a long time, I don’t really have these thoughts anymore and I see myself equal to everyone else. But I still wonder if anyone else with DPDR experienced something similar during intense dissociation.
Did anyone else go through this?