Manual № 40 · Depersonalization and derealization

BackintheRoom

The manual for depersonalization and derealization.

When you feel unreal, or the world does. What it is, and the way back.

12 modules — for the person who feels detached from themselves or the world

  1. 01What This Actually Is
  2. 02Your Plan for the Bad Days
  3. 03The Loop That Keeps It Going
  4. 04The Sentences That Do the Damage
  5. 05Stop Checking
  6. 06Where Your Attention Lives
  1. 07Grounding, Used Correctly
  2. 08Dropping the Safety Behaviors
  3. 09Sleep, Substances, and the Physical Floor
  4. 10When It Started With Something Hard
  5. 11Getting Back Into Your Life
  6. 12Staying Back in the Room

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how good the evidence behind it actually is, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01Drawing Your Own Loop
  2. 02The Amplifier
  3. 03Following the Fear Down
  4. 04Testing It Instead of Arguing With It
  5. 05Training Attention on Purpose
  6. 06Refocusing in the Situation Itself
  7. 07Anchoring Through the Senses
  1. 08Breathing, and the Symptom You Can Make on Purpose
  2. 09Riding Out the Urge to Check
  3. 10Unhooking From the Commentary
  4. 11Letting It Be There
  5. 12Giving the Worry a Time Slot
  6. 13Meeting the Sensation on Purpose
  7. 14The Line You Watch

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.