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Psychologist's Explanation: What is Derealization
27.08.2023 20:00
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:23
Derealization is a painful experience of the change in the surrounding world: everything around has changed in an incomprehensible way, has become “alien”, “not the same as before”, “unreal”, “artificial”, “ghostly”, as if “everything is just a dream” or “exists in the imagination ".
How to understand that I have Derealization
Derealization is a feeling of detachment or unreality of the surrounding world. People experiencing derealization think they are in a dream or watching a movie. There is a feeling as if there is a glass wall between them and others, which does not let emotions through, and the world seems two-dimensional, vague.
What can cause derealization
The development of derealization is influenced by conditions such as post-traumatic and acute stress disorders. Frustration.
Periodic suppression of one's own feelings, emotions, desires, awareness of impotence in achieving goals provokes the development of a derealization syndrome.
How long does a derealization attack last
Most often, the disorder is initiated in early childhood and adolescence, very rarely after 25 years. A person with a syndrome of depersonalization-derealization eventually moves away from loved ones. The state of depersonalization can last from a few minutes to several years.
