Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Depersonalisation disorder: Why are some people unable to feel love? BBC News" video.

  1. In Buddhism "depersonalization" and love go hand in hand. They're two aspects of wisdom that reinforce each other. I'm not sure how Western psychology fits together with people spending a lot of time and effort trying to stabilize "depersonalization".
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  2. Probably more with serotonine, since that seems to be associated with the salience of experiences in general.
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  3. You're EXCITED to feel something for the first time, huh?
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  4. Ok and you find that good or bad?
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  5. Well, since they're dead it doesn't matter whether you respect them.
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  6. You clearly have a very firm self concept. This sounds more like "dis-association" than "de-personalization", I guess? I think you can speak to people without feeling like speaking to people.
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  7. You take responsibility for things precisely by identifying disordered patterns. Your version of "responsibility" seems to be merely sulking in self hatred.
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  8.  @user-gw1vi8cg6w  No, that's accurate perception. What he reports sounds exactly like a mirror mediation and the insight he had is precisely the one we are trying to evoke. The thing that appears in the mirror is in fact not you. Nothing that appears can be you.
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