Panic attack Phobias PTSD Acute stress syndrome Depression Schizophrenia Borderline personality disorder Other dissociative disorders Consequence of psychoactive substance use Marijuana Hallucinogens MDMA Ketamine Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder Prevention Depersonalization-derealization disorder may be prevented by connecting children who have been abused with professional mental health help. Some trauma specialists suggest increasing inquiry into information about children's trauma history and exposure to violence, since the majority of people (about 80%) responsible for child maltreatment are the child's own parents. Trauma-specific intervention for children may be useful in preventing future symptoms. Another way to help prevent symptoms is by using "grounding techniques". Grounding techniques involve identifying objects, entities etc... using your five senses. For example, some psychologists recommend identifying five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste. Doing this brings the patient 'back to reality' as it helps relieve the anxiety that comes from the 'unknowingness' of one's DPDR. Treatment Treatment of DPDR is often difficult and refractory. Some clinicians speculate that this could be due to a delay in diagnosis by which point symptoms tend to be constant and less responsive to treatment. Additionally, symptoms tend to overlap with other diagnoses. Some results have been promising, but are hard to evaluate with confidence due to the small size of trials. However, recognizing and diagnosing the condition may in itself have therapeutic benefits, considering many patients express their problems as baffling and unique to them, but are in fact: one, recognized and described by psychiatry; and two, those affected by it are not the only individuals to be affected from the condition. However, symptoms are often transient and can remit on their own without treatment. Treatment is primarily non-pharmacological and can include paradoxical intention, record keeping, positive reward, flooding, psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychoeducation, self-hypnosis, and meditation. Meditation with the focus on the body has been used to achieve self awareness as it allows feelings, which otherwise are put aside or neutralized by the DPDR condition. Self-hypnosis training can be helpful and entails training patients to induce dissociative symptoms and respond in an alternative manner. Psychoeducation involves counseling regarding the disorder, reassurance, and emphasis on DPDR as a perceptual disturbance rather than a true physical experience. Clinical pharmacotherapy research continues to explore a number of possible options, including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), benzodiazepines, stimulants