For me, it’s intense. I have DID so my level of dissociation can get pretty significant. To the point I check out and a whole new personality takes center stage and drives the steering wheel that is what I do, what I say… how I react, respond, behave. All that. And each other “person” living in my mind would do each very very differently. So you just never know what you’re gonna get. But I don’t want to talk about that today. I want to talk about depersonalization and derealization… Particularly depersonalization… as I have both but that’s my primary type. But we’ll start with secondary, derealization. Derealization is when everything and everyone around you comes off super skeptical. You are intact with your own experience and senses genuinely… but everyone else seems like they know something that only you don’t. Like that movie, The Truman Show, with Jim Carey in it. It’s so bizarre. But with depersonalization, everyone else seems to be real and traveling through the world honestly. But you feel eccentric, to put it kindly. Like, you are quite “different” somehow. I have that one often. I will just slip away from what’s around me and start being disconnected and peculiar compared to the rest. Sounds absolutely crazy, right? Try living through it even for the shortest amount of time. Anyone else ever endure this mind and bodily occurrence?

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