Derealization during a panic attack can make people and objects feel unreal or strange. Pinching your hand or holding something cold can help bring you back to reality during derealization. Slow, deep ...

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 ...

For almost half a century, feeling unreal has been known as DPD, an abbreviation for Depersonalization Disorder. Now it is about a year since feeling unreal has been renamed. The new fifth edition of ...

I was there, then I wasn’t. I lost myself suddenly, as if someone had flipped a light switch, robbing me of emotions and the sense that I was…well…me. It was ...