A book that has a cure for depersonalizaton neurosis
Claire Weekes' book HOPE AND HELP FOR YOUR NERVES has a chapter titled "Feelings of Unreality" that is a guide on how to cure depersonalizaton neurosis.
I heard a doctor lecture about depersonalization neurosis, and he said such sufferers are introspective sensitive people who were raised by a domineering mother and an emotionally distant father. He said he's seen that parental pattern again and again among his depersonalization patients. The child thinks he's (or she's) unloved because he's not worthy (not realizing his parents aren't loving him as much as they should), so a guilt and low-self-esteem develop, and the depersonalization neurosis eventually springs up as a defense mechanism against those feelings, "acting like a circuit breaker." He said the cure is to be active in life as though the symptoms weren't there (the Claire Weekes book is a good guide for this stuff). He does prescribe his patients some OCD drugs to reduce the symptoms (he believes DP and OCD are related), but the cure to eradicating the symptoms altogether is to "go forward." He said that when his patients followed his advice, "The symptoms can lift as suddenly as their onset occurs." The improvements come abruptly, a layer lifting, and then, after a time, another lifting, until a cure. He said once the symptoms leave they leave forever. He did say, "They took a long time to happen, so they take a long time to get over." But he said "When you get your leg chopped off, you don't get your leg back. But as extreme as the depersonalizaton symptoms are, you can be completely cured of them." He recommended romantic involvements as part of becoming active in life, (the Claire Weekes book isn't that specific). He also said that people who feel smoking pot caused their depersonalization usually had the neurosis lurking ready to descend, anyway. The drug was just a trigger. Something else could have triggered it. The cause of the depersonalization is still rooted in childhood issues.