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  • noun psychology The psychological symptom in which the world appears to be unreal, and the patient has a sense of detachment from it

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Examples

  • I digested it at a very strange time in my life, while suffering from an undiagnosed anxiety disorder that took the form of what I only much later discovered was termed "derealization" -- a horrific sense of my cognizance somehow detaching, leaving me viscerally frightened and, after several episodes, more or less convinced I was suffering from a tumor or else losing my mind.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Mac 2006

  • Zarate did mention that his patients suffered certain adverse events, including “perceptual disturbances, confusion… increased libido…euphoria and derealization.”

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • If anyone might explain why an eclipse of the sun could arouse in him such a profound sense of derealization, Marcel might.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • *** Looked up, among other psychiatric terms, depersonalization and derealization.

    June 29th, 2007 2007

  • The derealization is quite real; I've fought it for years, with an ever-refined arsenal of prescribed substances.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • The symptoms you describe sound like they might be those of depersonalization and derealization, which are often related to underlying anxiety disorders.

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • At the moment, she understood, they were all suffering from acute stress disorder, a precursor of post-traumatic stress disorder that included all the PTSD symptoms, plus severe dissociative symptoms like selective amnesia, affective numbing, and derealization.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • Irene, a specialist in dissociative disorders, had been called in by the defense to testify that Paul suffered from a depersonalization/ derealization disorder.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • At the moment, she understood, they were all suffering from acute stress disorder, a precursor of post-traumatic stress disorder that included all the PTSD symptoms, plus severe dissociative symptoms like selective amnesia, affective numbing, and derealization.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • Irene, a specialist in dissociative disorders, had been called in by the defense to testify that Paul suffered from a depersonalization/ derealization disorder.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

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