Depersonalization Disorder Causes, Symptoms And Treatment

What Is Depersonalization Disorder?

People with depersonalization disorder feel that they are outside their body. They see themselves from a distance. They feel like a robot, living in a world that is not real. Some experience here another physical alienation. It feels like their bodies or part has a different shape.

Depersonalization Disorder Symptoms

People with depersonalization disorder may have the following symptoms:

1. They feel outside their own bodies.
2. They feel outside their own thoughts.
3. They take themselves from a distance where.
4. They feel that they can not be themselves.
5. They feel death internally.
6. They feel as though under a bell jar.
7. They hear sounds differently.
8. They have the idea that they are living in a dream.
9. They find their own voice strange and unfamiliar sound.
10. They feel like a robot.
11. They feel that their feelings are dead. They can not be happy or angry.
12. They feel that they live behind a glass wall.
13. They feel that their body shape has changed.
14. They find the condition in which they find themselves untenable and frightening.

Most people do not have all these symptoms, but a large number. It also happens that someone has just a phenomenon.

The symptoms usually begin suddenly. They can go away and come back again. In some people they persist for years.

What Causes Depersonalization Disorder?

How a depersonalization disorder occurs exactly is unknown. What is known is that the depersonalization disorder often develops after a period of stress.

Depersonalization can also be a symptom of another illness, such as depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, epilepsy or dissociative identity disorder (DID).

Depersonalization Disorder Treatment

What is the best therapy is at depersonalization disorder is unclear. There is not enough research done. Antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapy can help.