Depersonalisation

Description: Depersonalisation disorder (DD), in brief, involves the persistent or recurrent experience of feeling detached from, ... more

Depersonalisation ... and as if one is an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body. / Individuals with DD often report feeling as if in a waking dream or a movie and may also experience derealisation (the sense that the external world is unreal or strange). DD is not a psychotic condition, though individuals with DD often worry about this. Unfortunately, there is very little rigorously designed research on the pharmacologic treatment of DD.

Newest Review: ... breathing in and out so hard and loud it was all I could concentrate on and so the panic grew. Some of you may know that ... more

... panic is an almost uncontrollable feeling when it sweeps over you, but I emphasise the 'almost' here because within ten minutes I was able to calm myself down. Ten minutes of panic though; that was a result of working myself up so much I could not see, I could not hear and I would not look at anything beyond my own fear. What caused me the most fear during this experience was the dread that I was going to stay like it. I thought perhaps I had damaged my brain and I was going to be lost inside my own head for t...more

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Depersonalisation: I once was lost but now am found... (3161 words)
by suki212 - written on 29/08/01 (Very useful, 2277 readings)
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Five years ago, when I was 21, I had never heard of depersonalisation. I was a happy university student, merry with life, friends and essays, oblivious to any world except my own steady, reliable one. Although I was a shy, deep thinking person I had never felt particularly anxious or stressed about anything in my life and had never suffered from any neurosis or psychological problems at all. At 21, I was a small cheery boat bobbing along on the ocean, basking in the sun; I was a bright red balloon exploring lightly in the air. Quite simply, I was ignorant of any possibility of my life changing at all. Blinded by the sun, I was not aware of the thunderbolt that was ...

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