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Lately over the past two years I've begun to notice that when people around me speak, even in english, it sounds to me like a garbled alien language. I'm having more and more difficulty understanding direct conversations, and my sense of self has gone away almost completely. I only feel safe and whole when I'm by myself in peace and quiet and I'm not sure what this is called or how to describe it, really. ...

Hi. I'm 32 year old. I suffered from depression and anxiety now for 17 years and never try anything to heal myself. I've spent my whole 20s hiding in my room and isolated. Now this year my dog died and my dad got cancer so I went through lot of emotional stress and cried every day. Then I was overwhelmed by thoughts of death, death of my parents, how time flies, how things are not ...

I was wondering if anyone experienced blank mind to the extent that it was like tabula rasa and the world was completely brand new and ideas had to be formed by reading other people’s ideas, novels, works, media. It’s like my memories flooded into me but they didn’t feel like mine because I was this new being.....overtime I’ve clutched tightly onto the memories because without them I was nothing, no self at all, no originality. ...

Hello all,

My last therapist told me I suffered from depersonalization and derealization. I want to know if anyone else experiences a simultaneous sense of having no fixed identity, and yet being authentic with others.

I don’t have any friends and I prefer it that way, when I’m around others I expend so much energy making them feel comfortable it exhausts me. I’ve always felt like an outsider, some detached witness peering out from a ...

I told my psychotherapist today that I experience literally constant dissociation (both derealization and depersonalization) -- however it can fluctuate in intensity a bit.

She then said that it doesn't sound like it's dissociation I'm experiencing because that is something that comes and goes -- not something you have constantly.

Is this true?

Hi I'm hoping someone can relate to me tell me what this is
I'm feeling as if this isnt my life at all like it doesnt feel right it feels odd to me not mine .
My feelings dont feel like they are mine like they feel changed/ different.
I dont feel very connected or close to my loved ones or friends, as if they dont mean that much to me anymore .

I have ...

I am a 24 year old male who's had Depersonalization for the last 3.5 years. I have discovered that the problem that cauded it was a lack of father's care and love throughout my entire life. I have always longed for my father giving me the love and care I much needed from him, which he almost never gave me. Also, It's worth pointing out that he is a narcissist and always told me that ...

Have any of you had this feeling like you don't believe other people are real? Like that they feel and think? I'm struggling with this and it feels like I don't care about anyone anymore. It feels like there's this part of the brain that's supposed to just know that people are real like you, but that it's broken or missing :cry:

Honestly this ...

I have a problem and I cant put my finger on what it is..I'm in my early 20s, and have been happily married for 1 year.
I have been dealing with depression since I was 13, but now I have major anxiety disorder that I've been dealing with for 3 years. I dont take any medication for either because I'm starting to learn to handle it.

But anyways. I have lately noticed something weird starting ...