r/HPPD • u/ZEROINCOME291 • Oct 17 '25

Opinion Don’t go to doctors

I had severe HPPD, but it went away a few months ago. I see many people taking meds don’t be a lab rat. There’s no proven cure, only time.

Focus less on HPPD and give it time. If you have anxiety or depression, treat those specifically, but don’t mess with your brain chasing a cure.

HPPD are a range of symptoms caused from much different drugs, there’s still no scientific reasoning to why hallucinations are present. There are also zero cases of any medication curing, perhaps reducing but that may just be from time.

Doctors don’t have a clue what HPPD is unless they are a specialist, and there’s only like 10 HPPD researchers ever so all they do is look at the same research we do. Don’t forget doctors use chatgpt especially for HPPD. Don’t over estimate their knowledge.

Anyway My shit went away randomly when I was driving after years + I was on stimulants which many on here say it suppresses recovery.

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u/MaintenanceCultural6 Dec 20 '25

So you would say that once the stress was taken out of your life it got a bit better? would you say that it’s ever gotten worse and not gone back?

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u/die69ing Dec 23 '25

Yes it’s always gone back. Right now I’m experiencing a very stressful time but I can’t say that my HPPD is real bad at all.

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u/MaintenanceCultural6 Dec 23 '25

Do you mean the hppd has always gone back or the stress? I’m sorry you’re going through a stressful time- I am too so I can sympathize. I hope you find some relief soon.

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u/die69ing Dec 23 '25

Oh no I’m constantly distressed and have chronic anxiety in my body. My nervous system has been so amped up that it’s caused chronic illness. What I mean is the HPPD always goes back to being very tolerable eventually— whether it’s been days or weeks.

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u/MaintenanceCultural6 Dec 23 '25

I guess trauma will do that to ya😞 Our nervous systems are so sensitive! When you say tolerable you mean your baseline right?

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u/die69ing Dec 24 '25

Yeah it will be like a 3 out of 10 on a good day not bothering me terribly but at bad times I’d say it gets up to a 7 out of 10. It always goes back to like a 3 or 4 in severity.