From my understanding, based on my own experience, dp/dr is an anomaly or mental disorder from which (1) the information collected from our senses (vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste) is not properly processed (derealization) and (2) this info cannot reach our EGO, ourselves, and is not incorporated to our personal story anymore (depersonalization)
Both symptoms are directly related each other, so it is common to talk about DP/DR as a whole:
- Derealization consist on perceiving the world as distant, rare, distorsionated, more grey, more plane. You can feel you are not completely in this world. For example, when walking your feet move almost involuntarely, without control, in an automatic way, robotized. Your body is a foreign to you, separated from you mind. What you can perceive doesn't mean anything for YOU.
- Depersonalization is the sensation of having lost YOURSELF, literally. It is difficult recognizing yourself. It is hard to observe your face on the mirror. Who is this that is looking me? You can not remember easily your life before the attack of DP/DR. You lack preferences, tastes, favourite things... things that before can bring you emotions, now they don't do it. You are unable to understand the relationships with others, you are not comfortable treating people. Even your family seem strangers for you. You have lost your personality.
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