Derealization is when a person experiences unreality or detachment from their surroundings. Depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR) occurs most often in teenagers. The average age that a ...

Derealization is a mental state where you feel detached from your surroundings. People and objects around you may seem unreal. Even so, you’re aware that this altered state isn’t normal. More than ...

If you've ever experienced a panic attack, you might have felt as though you were observing yourself from outside or that the world around you wasn't real. These symptoms—referred to as ...

Many can relate to a passing feeling of disconnection or detachment every so often, but if you've suddenly found yourself in a constant state of detachment, experiencing visual distortions, or perhaps ...

Buetiger JR, Hubl D, Kupferschmidt S, et al. Trapped in a Glass Bell Jar: Neural Correlates of Depersonalization and Derealization in Subjects at Clinical High-Risk of Psychosis and ...

It is not unusual to feel emotionally numb after or during a very stressful event. A person may also notice a temporary feeling of dissociation or disconnection from the body and the outside world.

For almost half a century, feeling unreal has been known as DPD, an abbreviation for Depersonalization Disorder. Now it is about a year since feeling unreal has been renamed. The new fifth edition of ...

Have you ever been gripped by the suspicion that nothing is real? Camille, a former student at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where I teach, has endured feelings of unreality since childhood.

How does one feel needed within society? This question, while seemingly having many answers, also has none at all. In less philosophic terms, our belief in personal usefulness as a society is ...

A feeling of unreality that the outside world surrounding you cannot be felt as a reality, a feeling of emptiness that you cannot feel the certainty of your own existence, and a feeling of ...