Do You Feel Like a Stranger to Yourself?
Despite the fact that Depersonalization Disorder (DPD) is believed by some researchers to be the third most common mental disorder, many people, including professionals in the psychology field, do not...
View ArticleDepersonalization as a Way to Personalization
Patients who experience depersonalization describe it as the loss of the feeling "I am myself." Like breathing, we sometimes aren't aware of the "I am myself" feeling until we lose it or have...
View ArticleLucian Freud and Depersonalization: Dis-clothing Self
Sometimes art can see more deeply into human nature than science. The paintings of Lucian Freud open up a dimension of understanding self unknown even to his famous grandfather Sigmund Freud.read more
View ArticleMan and His Mask
The word 'persona' means mask. People with depersonalization often feel as if they wear masks. What is the relationship between one and one's mask?read more
View ArticleDepersonalization in the ER
The mental disorder of depersonalization could hide itself behind presentations of an alarming medical emergency with seeming physical disturbances that could lead to the ER. This type of...
View Article"I" and My Depersonalization. Comments on Your Comments.
The blog readers' comments suggest that there are four stages of dealing with depersonalization: 1. Uncertainty prior depersonalization has been diagnosed. 2. Hopes after depersonalization has been...
View ArticleFrom Hope to Disappointment on Being Diagnosed With DPD
The day your mysterious malady of lost self receives the diagnosis of depersonalization inspires hope. But unfortunately, you may begin a long search for cure only to discover that you suffer from one...
View ArticleHardship and Discontent of Depersonalization
Suddenly reality escapes you. You feel like a strange to yourself. Your feelings and thoughts are foreign and world around is unfamiliar.Finally you learn that you have Depersonalization Disorder only...
View ArticleLife With Depersonalization
Life with depersonalization has a potential to become a meaningful way of self-discovery and self-realization. Building stronger core self helps to contain the turbulence of unreality.read more
View ArticleOne Tear Of a Child: Children's Vulnerability After Newtown
Children's vulnerability and the role of media in the Newtown Elementary tragedy.read more
View ArticlePhenomenology of Myself
The history of Depersonalization begins 133 years ago. It happens neither in clinical setting nor in scientific lab. A poet and philosopher Amiel described it in his diary, "The Journal Intime," as a...
View ArticleDepersonalization and DSM. Part I – before the DSM-5.
Depersonalization is one of the most painful and difficult to define conditions. How to fit its notorious uncertainty and ambiguity in the frame of rigor and clarity of psychopathological...
View ArticleDepersonalization in the DSM-5
The new DSM-5 has changed the name for depersonalization disorder and its diagnostic criteria. Does it deepen understanding of feeling unreal and improve the diagnostics and treatment of this painful...
View ArticleWhy Depersonalization Happens?
The cause of depersonalization has not been identified, but many precipitating factors which contribute to the development of feeling unreal are well known. The examination of the controversial...
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