[pancake]

Depersonalization Disorder Symptom Domains:

• Alienation from surroundings (Derealization)
• e.g. like looking through a camera, veil, things appear unreal
• Lack of ownership feelings
  i.e. body/body parts feel alien / like they don't belong to you
• Feelings of automation/lack of agency/ not feeling in charge
• Disembodiment feeling
  ranges from feeling like you're not really there to out of body experiences
• Perceptual distortions of the body
  e.g. body parts appear a different size,
  feeling lighter,
  as if wrapped in cotton wool
• Heightened self observation
• Emotional numbing
• Anomalies in subjective recall
  e.g. memories lack emotion,
  seem like a dream,
  3rd person viewpoint like watching a film
• Visual distortions
• Mind emptiness/no thoughts/thousand mile stare
• Changes in experience of time
  e.g. recent events feel like the distant past
  inability to experience time/feel as if outside of time
• Changes in sense of duration
  internal body clock is out of tune with geophysical time - things appear in slow motion or sped up
• Changes to perspective of time/temporal disintegration
  past present and future - what order do those go in again?
  e.g. wondering whether it is really next week
  lack of understanding/feeling of time
• Impaired Spatial-Temporal Reasoning
  Spatial-temporal reasoning is the ability to visualise something in space that unfolds over time.
  e.g. estimating how a piece of paper will look unfolded. You're holding that map upside down by the way..

Bastardized from the literature.
Give me a shout if you require sources.

 

[InfantileAdult]

Depersonalization Disorder Symptom Domains:

• Alienation from surroundings (Derealization)
  e.g. like looking through a camera, veil, things appear unreal
• Lack of ownership feelings
  i.e. body/body parts feel alien / like they don't belong to you
• Feelings of automation/lack of agency/ not feeling in charge
• Disembodiment feeling
  ranges from feeling like you're not really there to out of body experiences
• Perceptual distortions of the body
  e.g. body parts appear a different size,
  feeling lighter,
  as if wrapped in cotton wool
• Heightened self observation
  
• Emotional numbing
  
• Anomalies in subjective recall
  e.g. memories lack emotion,
  seem like a dream,
  3rd person viewpoint like watching a film
• Visual distortions
  
• Mind emptiness/no thoughts/thousand mile stare
  
• Changes in experience of time
  e.g. recent events feel like the distant past
  inability to experience time/feel as if outside of time
• Changes in sense of duration
  internal body clock is out of tune with geophysical time - things appear in slow motion or sped up
• Changes to perspective of time/temporal disintegration
  past present and future - what order do those go in again?
  e.g. wondering whether it is really next week
  lack of understanding/feeling of time
• Impaired Spatial-Temporal Reasoning
  Spatial-temporal reasoning is the ability to visualise something in space that unfolds over time.
  e.g. estimating how a piece of paper will look unfolded. You're holding that map upside down by the way..

Bastardized from the literature.
Give me a shout if you require sources.


Depersonalization Self-evaluation Scales:
Steinberg Depersonalization Test
Cambridge Depersonalization Scale - PDF Format

I have nearly every single one of these symptoms.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Depersonalization Disorder Symptom Domains:

• Alienation from surroundings (Derealization)
  e.g. like looking through a camera, veil, things appear unreal
• Lack of ownership feelings
  i.e. body/body parts feel alien / like they don't belong to you
• Feelings of automation/lack of agency/ not feeling in charge
• Disembodiment feeling
  ranges from feeling like you're not really there to out of body experiences
• Perceptual distortions of the body
  e.g. body parts appear a different size,
  feeling lighter,
  as if wrapped in cotton wool
• Heightened self observation
  
• Emotional numbing
  
• Anomalies in subjective recall
  e.g. memories lack emotion,
  seem like a dream,
  3rd person viewpoint like watching a film
• Visual distortions
  
• Mind emptiness/no thoughts/thousand mile stare
  
• Changes in experience of time
  e.g. recent events feel like the distant past
  inability to experience time/feel as if outside of time
• Changes in sense of duration
  internal body clock is out of tune with geophysical time - things appear in slow motion or sped up
• Changes to perspective of time/temporal disintegration
  past present and future - what order do those go in again?
  e.g. wondering whether it is really next week
  lack of understanding/feeling of time
• Impaired Spatial-Temporal Reasoning
  Spatial-temporal reasoning is the ability to visualise something in space that unfolds over time.
  e.g. estimating how a piece of paper will look unfolded. You're holding that map upside down by the way..

Bastardized from the literature.
Give me a shout if you require sources.


Depersonalization Self-evaluation Scales:
Steinberg Depersonalization Test
Cambridge Depersonalization Scale - PDF Format

Hi; appreciate your post.
All the signs mention here fit me to a T.
Yes, I am interested in getting some of your sources, especially ones that differentiate Dp from Dr; can't seem to remember if there is much of a qualitative difference and if so, how I can use the info to better myself.
Thanks

 

[shorty_rerecovered]

Hey dude remove that disorder thing, these are symptoms of the depersonalization feeling. People when read this get scared the shit out of them don't make it worse.

 

[JustRose]

I've had a profound "holy shit" kind of feeling from coming on this site and knowing I've been like this for years. It makes me feel a bit sick thinking about it sometimes, thanks for posting this. Does it feel like a twisted mind game your head is playing with you to anyone else too?

 

[Filipe Oliveira]

Hi all.
I think reading and posting the symptoms is not bad at all, for me, it's amazing how this is recognized.
I am 34 years old and I have DPD since my age of 7.
I've been, since then, to a lot of doctors and none could diagnose what I had (have).
Since my age of 18, I just quit looking for help. I thought I was kind of the only person that had this.
Only very recently (2 months back), I saw a movie that changed all. The movie is "Numb". I didn't knew that this movie was about a mental disorder (DPD).
Since I saw the movie, I googled DPD and I have found anwers and words for the symptons that I was never able to describe.
I have DPD almost everyday and sometimes it longs full days, not easy to deal with. I was able to control it in the beginning but looks like that DPD gets stronger and stronger.
I will try a a different therapy as I have this for so many years. Tomorrow (8th July 2012) I will have my first appointment with a Hypnotherapist. I need to go back in time to understand what triggered the DPD (Not druggs for sure).
I know, since I remember myself, I was always an insecure child, teenager and adult but I need to take this crap out of me. I need quality life not only for me, as well for the ones that are part of my life.

 

[Petrucci6565]

I've had a profound "holy shit" kind of feeling from coming on this site and knowing I've been like this for years. It makes me feel a bit sick thinking about it sometimes, thanks for posting this. Does it feel like a twisted mind game your head is playing with you to anyone else too?

i feel pretty much the same. i'll "wake up" from this at times, and then it hits me that i've been in this disoriented and emotionally flat state for so long. when that happens i do get freaked out. a profound "holy shit" is a good way to put it. at that time, i can't believe it has been happening for so long

 

[Letgoandletgod]

So i took the survey and it confirmed my fears and my beliefs that my DP is much worse than anybody elses on this site. I scored severely DPed...

Lovely, now bring on the despair

Is this really helpful?

 

[Midnight]

So i took the survey and it confirmed my fears and my beliefs that my DP is much worse than anybody elses on this site. I scored severely DPed...

Lovely, now bring on the despair

Is this really helpful?

pretty sure most people on here would score that high. I scored severely too.

 

[Letgoandletgod]

pretty sure most people on here would score that high. I scored severely too.

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that actually makes me feel much better. thx mate

 

[Haumea]

I have all of these except Impaired Spatial-Temporal Reasoning.

 

[pancake]

Ho guys

Just wanted to say that I can no longer provide exact literature references for the above symptom list.

In a fit to protect myself from my silly notion that I am dissociative, I went and hid all the books I owned on the subject at the bottom of a box of books I was giving away.
Nope, I didn't just throw them out, I actually hid them from myself so I couldn't overrule my own decision. Job done, I promptly forgot the whole thing.
I found myself searching for the damn books some time later.. at which point I conveniently remembered the whole affair *roll eyes*

No stranger to self-sabotage, me. Oh well, I meant well.. if that makes any sense.

Anyhow, I hang over on the DID forum now.
Not that things are quite that severe for me, but DP alone doesn't seem to quite cut it.

In any case, the list above was taken from:

• Depersonalization: A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome (Cambridge Medicine) by Mauricio Sierra and
• Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self by Daphne Simeon and Jeffrey Abugel

All the best

pancake

 

[RockerChick]

I have a constant floating pressure feeling in my head like its full of fog and I just can't think.

 

[Katya]

oh great, severely depersonalized :3 this did nothing but make me feel like crap. and i dont even know if it ever goes away so i dont even have any hope that ill get better xD

 

[Hearth]

I've had a profound "holy shit" kind of feeling from coming on this site and knowing I've been like this for years. It makes me feel a bit sick thinking about it sometimes, thanks for posting this. Does it feel like a twisted mind game your head is playing with you to anyone else too?

I feel like being played as well

 

[pancake]

Anyhow, I hang over on the DID forum now.
Not that things are quite that severe for me, but DP alone doesn't seem to quite cut it.

Ha. LOL. No. It was DID all along for me.

Hope the DP/DR list did more than just make you guys sad

Good luck you all

 

[D'annie]

this is my version of what this has felt like...do you share some of these feelings? I made a video below

 

[Will_i_am]

I know this is a wierd thing to say but the best thing about "us" is we are albe to
escape reality. maby this is what we have been looking for all along

 

[Midnight]

I know this is a wierd thing to say but the best thing about "us" is we are albe to
escape reality. maby this is what we have been looking for all along

Maybe, but the constant feelings of tension and inability to relax makes me have my doubts.

 

[Will_i_am]

True. Does anyone know if dpd can go away on its own with time?