Mild HPPD?

[StonedNative]

I just see a few eye floaters now, usually only when I'm outside. I'm not letting it get the best of me, because I heard when you freak out the disease gets worse. So, my plan is to exercise and eat healthy and abstain from all drugs for a few months to see if it will go away. Has anoyone else's symptoms gone away?

 

[TheBollocks]

It will its just not something to frame in time easily for me it took about 3-5 years to almost go away completely and that was abstaining from all hallucinogens and cutting back on a lot of drugs. Mine was moderate but the things that got to me most were when I was driving and the speedometer would slide into my field of vision near the road or the lines would kinda jump at me or my peripheral line of sight would kind of bloom things around what I was looking at and a bunch of other things but mainly the thing I hated was that things looked like they were breathing (couches walls ect). It will go away just give it time I know years sounds long and it sucks but it will get better keep your hopes up.

 

[Eyes On the Roll]

sounds like you may have a mild form.

I have had hppd for about 2 years, ever since i started college (the summer before college ate shrooms multiple times a week basically the whole summer)

In a bright class room objects have shadows around them that shouldn't be there, like a halo, and my vision is always staticky .
The worst part is the depersonalization/derealization (which i believe im predisposed to), it can get pretty intense to where objects that have lines or patterns begin to morph, and sometimes when I walk it feels like im "floating", like im riding my body, like one rides a go-cart or a car or other vehicle. I can zone out so hard that I will have extreme panic attacks.

 

[Dave]

^ I get that sometimes, minus the panic attacks. The visual distortions for me are usually pretty mild-- along the lines of swimming/waving patterns on patterned surfaces, occasional visual static, and noticing patterns in random textures-- which are usually more noticeable if I get tired and start slipping into a depersonalized/derealized state. The DP/DR predates my drug use, and is actually somewhat prevalent on my father's side of the family.

It's been many years since my heavy drug use days, although I will occasionally indulge in a little something or other maybe once ore twice a year. While I don't notice the symptoms as much, they don't seem to be going anywhere in my case. I don't mind much though, since they only ever show up when I'm otherwise stressed (e.g. by being tired, psych stress, etc...) I can use them as a gauge of my psychological state, and perhaps change what I'm doing.