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Derealization is an alteration in the perception of the external world, causing those with the condition to perceive it as unreal, distant, distorted, or in other ways falsified. Other symptoms include feeling as if one's environment lacks spontaneity, emotional coloring, and depth. [ 1 ]
Derealization is described as detachment from one's surroundings. Individuals experiencing derealization may report perceiving the world around them as foggy, dreamlike, surreal, and/or visually distorted. [5] Depersonalization-derealization disorder is thought to be caused largely by interpersonal trauma such as early childhood abuse.
Depersonalization is a subjective experience of unreality in one's self, while derealization is unreality of the outside world. Although most authors currently regard depersonalization (personal/self) and derealization (reality/surroundings) as independent constructs, many do not want to separate derealization from depersonalization. [12]
Looks at the world in a very static or geometric way 5.1.7 Nonspecific/other derealization* The world feels strange in some way 5.2 Loss of affordances Objects and events no longer have their normal meaning and are seen simply as fixtures on the world. 5.3 Inanimate things seem alive or intentional* 5.4 Heightened intensity/hyperrealization*
These alterations can include: a sense that self or the world is unreal or altered (depersonalization and derealization), a loss of memory , forgetting identity or assuming a new self (fugue), and separate streams of consciousness, identity and self (dissociative identity disorder, formerly termed multiple personality disorder) and complex post ...
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Dissociative identity disorder; Other names: Multiple personality disorder Split personality disorder: Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: At least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states, [1] recurrent episodes of dissociative amnesia, [1] inexplicable intrusions into consciousness (e.g., voices, intrusive thoughts, impulses, trauma-related beliefs), [1] [2 ...