It might sound farfetched that people can go through an out-of-body experience, but this isn't a made up phenomenon. Depersonalization is a dissociative disorder that causes someone to feel detached ...

Depersonalization is a difficult to define “feeling unreal.” To be counted as a disorder that can be diagnosed and accordingly subject to a treatment protocol, depersonalization needs to be clearly ...

Depersonalization is a common symptom of schizophrenia. Depersonalization-derealization disorder, which also involves a related form of dissociation called derealization, affects about 16 percent of ...

The sensation of being detached from your surroundings may point to a hard-to-diagnose condition. By Christina Caron Barrie Miskin was newly pregnant when she noticed her appearance was changing. Dark ...

This article originally appeared in the April 2007 issue of ELLE. There are many analogies Sandy Gale uses to describe her affliction: It's as if she is separated from others by an invisible barrier, ...

The subsequent DSM-IV, published in 1994, keeps depersonalization in the same class of Dissociative Disorder and does not change the definition of depersonalization or its diagnostic criteria. But the ...