CORRECTION: There are many elements of trauma and unmet needs that go into depersonalization that you will needs to address, but yes, there is nothing wrong with you.

Dr. Gabor Maté: Stress is ubiquitous these days — it plays a role in the workplace, in the home, and virtually everywhere that people interact. It can take a heavy toll on individuals unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully. This is even more true for parents, family members and caregivers of individuals with neuro-behavioural disorders such as FASD, and if left unchecked, accumulated stress goes on to undermine immunity, disrupts the body's physiological milieu and can prepare the ground for a multitude chronic diseases and conditions. This presentation, adapted for this conference, is based on When The Body Says No, a best-selling book that has been translated into more than twelve languages on five continents.

"When you are stuck in a lose-lose scenario, the severity of the pain of the decision is actually being caused by the parts of yourself that are caught in a needs conflict. If you resolve the needs conflict between those two parts of yourself, you will find alignment and be able to either see different options than you originally saw or make a clear choice between two unwanted options without suffering." Teal Swan

"The time has come on this planet for human beings to end the zero sum game with everything in existence. With themselves, with the world itself, with other species, In a relationship, if one person wins and another loses or one being wins and another loses, both of them ultimately lose...What love actually is and what trust actually is is the most important thing to develop in relationship. The zero sum game is absent of both. Now this becomes a gaslight. A gaslight is, 'you didn't see what you saw. you didn't hear what you heard. You didn't feel what you felt.' It's basically when you know the truth of something is one way, but everyone is saying it isn't." Teal Swan

"Our gut feelings are not luxuries you know. They tell us what is dangerous and what is friendly. They tell us what is safe and what is dangerous. And they tell us what is true and what is false. So when we're alienated from our gut feelings, we no longer have a sense of reality or a sense of truth. The good news is that human beings can regain their sense of connection to themselves, just as we can regain our sense of connection to our nature. And empathy, which is a genuine human quality is in us. We're actually wired for empathy. Even rats are wired for empathy."

Overall, John Donne's poem 'Death Be Not Proud' is a masterful argument against the power of Death. The theme, or the message, of the poem is that Death is not some all-powerful being that humans should fear. Instead, Death is actually a slave to the human race and has no power over our souls....DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. ... The official name of this poem is “Divine Sonnet X,” although is it most frequently called by its first line.

Words from Alexandra Cousins: We are so focused "fighting", "killing" dis-ease... getting rid of symptoms, getting "better".... and meanwhile we miss the point and gifts of dis-ease. What happens when we understand the true nature of dis-ease and what true healing entails

Song: Reveal, Artist: Bliss & Lisbeth Scott, Album: They Made History

From Harris Harrington's Depersonalization Recovery course: http://depersonalizationrecovery.com

"Life becomes a process of deep hurt. Don't you see the tragedy of what we are doing to ourselves? And the consequence of that hurt is we build a wall around ourselves, never to be hurt more, so we get frightened, withdraw, isolated, and from that isolation act-which becomes more and more neurotic..,so what is one to do? " Krishnamurti