Holding your hand as far as you can from your face indicates that you’re feeling present. To measure it, she applies the “back-of-the-head scale,” a tool that visualizes the extent of a person’s derealization via hand measurements. It’s our brain giving us a break,” Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, LCSW, told me. “Dissociation is a normal and healthy response to trauma, stress, boredom, or overwhelm. There are monthlong stretches of my life where I question if I was ever really there at all. Sex is out of the question, because I feel like a shell of a human. I can’t speak to my loved ones or access my emotions. But these flippant references sometimes can feel like they’re betraying the severity of the condition. I’ve noticed a growing tendency for people to mention dissociation on social media in a joking or casual manner, which is certainly a way to cope with not wanting to connect to the reality of the world. Derealization means feeling removed from your environment, like you are living in a dream or a haze, or there’s an imaginary force field separating you from other people.Ībout half of all people experience these feelings at least once in their lifetime, but 2% meet the criteria for depersonalization-derealization disorder, and have repetitive and persistent episodes of dissociation. While dissociation equates to feeling detached, depersonalization is feeling distant from yourself it’s like you are an outside observer of your body or acting as if on autopilot. This is how I experience my depersonalization-derealization disorder, a dissociative disorder that manifests as feeling disconnected from your body, mental processes, and surroundings. Imagine that you’re moving through the world in a fog, able to control your body, but not feeling fully inside it - like you’re playing a video game of your life as a slightly removed spectator.
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