Occurs when you persistently or repeatedly have the feeling that you’re observing yourself from outside your body or you have a sense that things around you are not real or both. May feel like you’re living in a dream.

Symptoms

Depersonalization:

-Feelings that you’re an ouutsider observer of your thoughts, feelings, your body or parts of your body – as if you were floating in air above yourself.

-Feeling like a robot or that you’re not in control of your speech or movements

-The sense that your body, legs, or arms appear distorted, enlarged or shrunken, or that your head is wrapped in cotton

-Emotional or physical numbeness of your senses or responses to the world around you

-A sense that your memories lack emotion, and that they may or may not be your own memories

Derealization

-Feelings of being alienated from or unfamiliar with your surrounding – like you are living in a movie or dream

-Feeling emotionally disconnected from people you care about, as if you were seperated by a glass wall

-Surroundings that appear distorted, blurry, colorless, two-dimensional or artificial, or a hieghtened awareness and clarity of your surroundings

– Distortions in peception of time, such as recent events feeling like distant past

-Distortions of distance and the size and shape of objects