Nexis

OK which one of these below? Do they sound familiar? Because both Depersonalization and Derealization is with part of the Dissosciative/ Multiple personality Disorder....


Depersonalization:

* unreal
* disembodied
* divorced from oneself
* apart from everything
* unattached
* alone
* strange
* weird
* foreign
* unfamiliar
* dead
* puppet-like
* robot-like
* acting a part
* 'like a lifeless
* two dimensional
* 'cardboard' figure
* made of cotton-wool
* having mechanical actions
* remote
* automated
* a spectator
* witnessing ones own actions as if in a film or on a TV program
* not doing one's own thinking
* observing the flow of ideas in the mind as independent.



Derealization


"A change in an individual's experience of the environment, where the world around him/her feels unreal and unfamiliar.

Unlike depersonalization which effects the perception of oneself, derealization is a change in an individual's experience of their environment, where the world around him/her feels unreal and unfamiliar.

Again, derealization, like depersonalization, is caused by a change in the way senses percieve our surroundings due to sensitized, anxious, nerve signals reaching the brain. Derealization is completely harmless but can be very disturbing. The more you give derealization credibility, the longer it stays with you. As anxiety levels are reduced, derealization disappears.


* spaciness
* like looking through a gray veil
* a sensory fog
* spaced-out
* being trapped in a glass bell jar
* in a goldfish bowl
* behind glass
* in a Disney-world dream state
* withdrawn
* feeling cut off or distant from the immediate surroundings
* like being a spectator at some strange and meaningless game
* objects appear diminished in size
* flat
* dream-like
* cartoon-like
* artificial; objects appear to be unsolid, to breathe, or to shimmer
* "as if my head were inside a Coke bottle and I'm viewing the world through the thick glass at the bottom"




I am curious to know your situation alittle more; I have had this similar experience, with Derealization when I was much younger, and even sometimes now... Its actually caused be anxiety, and my anxiety is better then before...

I feel like I am ok one minute and then I feel like the world is the "matrix" that the people I see on the trains or from afar are placed there for theatrical reasons, and the world is just a circus/stage...

When I was a child when this first happened, I grabbed my granny's hand and I ask her are you real, does this world exist as I see it?? I was 11 years old at that time....


Are you the type to act out when anxious? I tend to get spaced out and get in to the 'derealization" state, yet never heard anyone talk about themselves with this similar conditon so if you would be so kind, elaborate more....