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While derealization feels like being detached from reality and the environment that surrounds you, depersonalization goes a bit deeper and can be even scarier for people to experience.
When you are in the depersonalization moment, you will feel like not being yourself. A person who is experiencing depersonalization often claims that they had a feeling of being outside of their body. You feel that the person you ''live within'' is someone else, rather than you.
Besides that, depersonalization can also bring feelings such as being detached from your own thoughts, emotions, and even beliefs. Therefore, you will feel that you are watching someone else, and not living yourself.
I believe that depersonalization is very common among bereaved parents due to the long period of grief, stress, and negative emotions. Once you feel that everything is just too much and that you cannot carry that heavy burden on an everyday basis anymore, your body will try to find ways to escape, and that's exactly when you will start feeling depersonalized.
As with derealization, anxiety is also highly linked to depersonalization. People who suffer from agoraphobia also say that they experience depersonalization more often, especially when they find themselves in crowds or groups of people.
A person who is in the middle of a panic attack can also feel depersonalized from their own body and from reality. Many claim that it felt like they were living in a dream and watching themselves from the side, or above the body.
If you are experiencing depersonalization more often, you may feel like living behind the glass, or behind the walls, and that the world around you is passing by, together with people. You will feel like an observer. Chronic depersonalization is linked to dissociative mental health issues, together with derealization.
It is important to mention that people who are in the grieving process, have lost a loved one, are going through a very stressful episode of their life, or are suffering from severe anxiety or complicated clinical depression experience depersonalization in a different way than those who are living in a delusion.
In the previous blog post where I wrote about derealization, I also mentioned that dissociative mental health disorders are very different from psychosis. Therefore, you shouldn't think about yourself as crazy or losing your mind.
When it comes to treatment, no one has still found a cure for these phenomena. Yet, we, together with experienced psychologists believe that the cure itself lies in the underlying cause of the problem.
What triggered your depersonalization is what you should focus on when it comes to finding help. Here, the problem is usually linked to extreme exhaustion caused by heavy and negative feelings that follow a grieving journey of losing a child.
In the next blog post, I will focus on the tips and tricks that can be helpful to fight and overcome depersonalization and derealization attacks.
