so basically i sometimes feel like dodie feels.... but not the same . lemme explain. for example when i am sitting in class / random time of the day i suddenly realize that i am in this world i am me , but as of before i felt like i was watching a move thru the point of view of someone else or playing a game and controlling the character and i feel like my bran just flew out of my head................its really weird. if someone experiences this please tell me xD

Wow, Actually yeah. I just found out that this thing is a disorder today so yey

Wow, Actually yeah. I just found out that this thing is a disorder today so yey

Sometimes I look at my husband, as if I'm seeing him for the first time and it dawns on me, really "sinks" in that he's my husband and I've known him for 8 years. It's happened with family members too, like my mom and siblings and friends. It's really disturbing. Luckily, my husband is very supportive about my dp/dr and constantly tells me that our relationship feels like "50 first dates" with me. I feel guilty because I forget so much, so often. We joke because I tell him we're living the retelling of our love story through him, like in the movie, "The Notebook"

Yes yes yes!! But I only get it when I am tired stressed hungry or haven't had enough to drink

Yes yes yes!! But I only get it when I am tired stressed hungry or haven't had enough to drink

Dude you're going through an awakening of consciousness. or a spiritual awakening. Everyone can do it but society and social media manipulates and distracts from the subject. Seeing life from all perspectives, that includes astral where your consciousness developed imagery(this is what you explained),  not just in the physical plane of life. Physical scenes includes sight , hearing, scent, ect that developed simply for survival purposes.  Though you have to be careful because this way of thought  brings about obsessive thinking and anxiety ..... meditation helps with the overwhelming feeling...

That’s depersonalisation, not derealisation. There’s also disassociative disorder.

That’s depersonalisation, not derealisation. There’s also disassociative disorder.

thats exactly what’s been happing to me through my life rn I’m doing something and suddenly I just blank out wonder if this its actually happening, is life even real. it’s so weird but then it just stops after a couple of minutes

I have that too. But I‘ve had a hard time explaining it ever since I first experienced it. It’s such a weird „is that really me? Am I living or dreaming?“ situation. And to someone who hasn’t had it, it’s soooo hard to explain.

I was diagnosed with derealisation yesterday and maybe it has something to do with it. We‘ll see.

To everyone that has posted here:<br>Do not diagnoze yuorself. Contact a professional for a diagnoze. The odds you are totally wrong with a self diagnoze is huge.

To everyone that has posted here:
Do not diagnoze yuorself. Contact a professional for a diagnoze. The odds you are totally wrong with a self diagnoze is huge.

Damn I get it too. But now it's gotten worse and now I'm pretty sure I have dissociation?

Damn I get it too. But now it's gotten worse and now I'm pretty sure I have dissociation?

It happens to me all the Time no clue what it is but it's as if<br>Your someone else ?

It happens to me all the Time no clue what it is but it's as if
Your someone else ?

I have that too, it isn't overwhelming or anything... I KNOW what is happening but I don't REALISE it if you get what I mean. My life feels like a movie all the time

But it's just lightly and I don't think I actually have depersonalisation or anything but Yeah I can kinda Relate

I feel the exact way you feel, don't worry, you're not alone

I feel the exact way you feel, don't worry, you're not alone

I get that for little bits, it feels like I'm transitioning from the past to the future. I also find it when I am at a disco and it has a flashing white light

That's how i feel! I feel like its everyday or every other day so i probably dont have depersonalization but it still sucks

That's how i feel! I feel like its everyday or every other day so i probably dont have depersonalization but it still sucks

i COMPLETELY relate to the game one. like it feels like you are watching things happen and not controlling or feeling any of it. i feel like i am just zoomed out. i can talk, laugh, be sad, but i feel like the negative emotions are much more realistic than how the positive ones feel. do you have any tips on what to do to ground yourself?

sub so I can get verified and get featured on YIAY i feel the same, and sometimes when i stare at someone’s face, i suddenly realize that their face looks like a stranger to me, when i really look at them. But at the same time, inknow it’s them, like- i can’t explain it with words. I love how everyone has weird shit like this, i love knowing that there is at least one person out there who feels the same towards things as i do. Your experience is very similar to mine

I get this and when I have derealization I feel as if I am watching myself through a screen or like a friend is telling me a story about my own life if that makes sense. I begin to panic and then I fall deeper into the hole

Raining Rainbows yes!  It’s like your on autopilot and then you’re not and are super aware.

Raining Rainbows yes!  It’s like your on autopilot and then you’re not and are super aware.

I feel something similar to this sometimes.  My eyes do this thing where randomly everything looks sharper and more vivid and I get this feeling like I have been on autopilot but am not anymore.  Everything feels and looks weird and I become hyper aware of everything around me.  Each time it happens is usually at night, when I am tired, or when I am having high amounts of anxiety or a panic attack.  They only last for a few minutes and to get them to go away I distract myself or close my eyes and shake my head.  It’s a weird feeling.

This is just a thing... this just happens. If you relate to this, it doesn't mean you have depersonalization or derealization necessarily. You might, but this particular example is just simple existentialism. That's just being self-aware which is one of the most human thoughts you can have, seeing as (theoretically), humans' self-awareness is a large part of what sets us apart from other species in the animal kingdom.

Mental disorders are very, very complex things and you really shouldn't self-diagnose. It may make you feel better and make you realize you're not alone, but the truth is that you're never alone. There are almost always other people who have been where you are, and accepting that your experience of life is human, and that you're not strange or abnormal is far more simple yet far more true than the "truths" we tend to stress ourselves to find.

I absolutely encourage everyone to find spaces (like this) online or in person (say, with your friends) where you can talk about what you feel. Use those opportunities to share your experiences and learn from others'. Humans are cool and you're cool so... be you.

Unless you're Hitler. Don't be Hitler. And probably scratch off Mussolini too.

+sub so I can get verified and featured on YIAY<br>I do too. It occurs when I suddenly become bored or having too much fun ( I think about what I would do w/o it and blah blah) Don't worry girl. Hang in there.

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I do too. It occurs when I suddenly become bored or having too much fun ( I think about what I would do w/o it and blah blah) Don't worry girl. Hang in there.

Woah sorry for being late, but I relate a lot to your comment. Although the thing is, that my case is a bit different. It's like I am just there while somebody is controling my body. I can't focus, I constantly feel like I'm not real. I get dizzy and my head spins alot, which none of this used to happend before. It just started over the summer (is that even possible?). I can't even count how much times I ask myself: "What is wrong with me?". And it makes me so depressed and sad because I feel like I am not who I used to be. My memory got worse and it makes my classes almost impossible to remember. I have no idea what is going on with me. Are there any pills? Is it all in my head? Can I make it stop? If somebody can atleast guess what it could be, please, reply.

My entire time at school/college right there.

My entire time at school/college right there.

Omg!!!!! I USED TO HAVE THAT ALL THE TIME!!

Omg!!!!! I USED TO HAVE THAT ALL THE TIME!!

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat I do this sometimes.

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat I do this sometimes.

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat that’s depersonalization my friend

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat that’s depersonalization my friend

YES YES YES SAME!!! I’ve been tying to explain in to everyone but everyone thinks it’s just me exaggerating

YES YES YES SAME!!! I’ve been tying to explain in to everyone but everyone thinks it’s just me exaggerating

I have the same! It doesn't happen all the time, but it tends to happen when my anxiety spikes, so I feel like it's related to my anxiety disorder.

I have the same! It doesn't happen all the time, but it tends to happen when my anxiety spikes, so I feel like it's related to my anxiety disorder.

that's exactly what happens sometimes to me too!!!! I thought I was crazy hahahaha it's just like that, I feel like I'm watching a movie through my eyes

This happens to me all the time I feel like I'm someone else and then something will happen and I'll be like "holy shit this is me"

This happens to me all the time I feel like I'm someone else and then something will happen and I'll be like "holy shit this is me"

I do. It's like you're watching through a vr. But for me, I can't feel anything.

I do. It's like you're watching through a vr. But for me, I can't feel anything.

I had no idea other people felt this way too

I had no idea other people felt this way too

when i was younger, I referred to it as "feeling the world spinning" because it made the base of my skull "buzz" and I would think "omigosh i am a person and this is by body and I am on a blue spinning ball...." just thoughts like that spinning and spinning and then as quickly as the feelings came, they were gone. I also described it as feeling like my body and my soul were not connected and I was seeing myself in the mirror and my reflection was me and not me all at the same time. I have clear memories of this happening and mostly when I looked in the mirror....bizarre stuff.

Lmfao 13 year olds diagnosing themselves

Lmfao 13 year olds diagnosing themselves

I started feeling like this at the age of four. I just thought it was me just being curious or creating theories about my life. I don't have any other symptoms though.

I feel the same way with forgetfulness I can't recall my first 8 yrs of living i'm currently 14 and I can't tap into those memories and when I look at pictures I sometimes not always remember what I was doing like itt feels as if someone else was in my body taking over for that part of my life and it scares me sometimes I have to ask twice maybe three times before understanding what people are trying to tell me to do.

This describes nearly exactly how I feel!

This describes nearly exactly how I feel!

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat  i get this when im usually tired but not sleepy i just say things i dont think of saying  , and move from instinct ,it is so weird and it feels like nothing is real , it feels like my brain is silent but my mouth is talking and my body is moving .

i feel this as well. not very often, but when i do, it lasts some time. now i finally know what it’s called!!

i feel this as well. not very often, but when i do, it lasts some time. now i finally know what it’s called!!

I have the same feeling sometimes. Just as you I have it in school but they often appear when I am playing videogames. It feels like I am leaving my body and the controller is held by someone elses xD idk it sounds suuuuper crazy.

Fabian Reschke yeah thats exactlyhow it seems for me

Fabian Reschke yeah thats exactlyhow it seems for me

Yes i have this too. It feels like I am normally not really concious but i only realize it in those moments. As if I am just working and reacting to my environment all the time without really bein there.

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat this is another explanation of what she has. I can relate to how this affects you

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat this is another explanation of what she has. I can relate to how this affects you

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat I kind of feel the same way. Especially when someone says my name. I also have moments where I'm like "Am I really alive? What if I'm in a coma? What if I'm dead but I don't know?"

I have been getting this a lot lately and thought that it was just me who had it and when I talked about it to anyone, they just gave me weirds looks and thought I was crazy lmao so I don’t usually talk about it but this video has helped a lot!

I can mentally see myself in another part of a room and see me doing  actually what im doing.
So i would be doing the dishes and i would randomly imagine myself sitting on the counter looking at myself doung the dishes

Its so weird XD

Charliee the Cacti  i relate to this and dodie :o

Charliee the Cacti  i relate to this and dodie :o

I get this too... I think mine is an epilepsy type thing.

I get this too... I think mine is an epilepsy type thing.

i feel like that when i get high..like ive lived different lives but me as the main person.

i feel like that when i get high..like ive lived different lives but me as the main person.

this happens to me about maybe once a week for like 3 minutes at a time i find It to be extremely uncomfortable and almost have an anxiety attack. It used to happen almost once day but now It is happening less and less

I relate to this!!! It always feels like im not exactly controling stuff and then all of a sudden boom im aware that im controlling my body

I relate to this!!! It always feels like im not exactly controling stuff and then all of a sudden boom im aware that im controlling my body

I have the exact same thing, I’m afraid that nobody will understand me and I don’t know how to tell people and explain it

I have the exact same thing, I’m afraid that nobody will understand me and I don’t know how to tell people and explain it

this happens to me a lot, like i dont feel real? and i dont feel like anything else is real either. then ill randomly either realize 'oh shit i exist' or ill see something (like a few months ago it was my friends hair) and itll look so so real and im like, shit, things are real. woah.

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat i feel the same exact thing everything she is talking about is happening to me , this is very crazy

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat i feel the same exact thing everything she is talking about is happening to me , this is very crazy

Yup! I relate to that too. I'm a musician and sometimes I'm out playing a gig and think "Oh. I'm a person who plays music and knows how to play instruments. That's...interesting" or something like "I'm a person who is driving a car. It's cool that I'm a person who can drive a car". I've had stronger dissociative episodes, but totally get the abrupt realisations that you described too!

I wish I wasn't a person, I would like to be a transcendental being, no mass, just energy, a "god", if you will. A thing that has no self, just a other-dimension being that controls that body/ego/person that is "I". But when I have that <b>*click*</b> that I'm as real as a rock, everything just feels glitched. A The Sims game that went wrong.

I wish I wasn't a person, I would like to be a transcendental being, no mass, just energy, a "god", if you will. A thing that has no self, just a other-dimension being that controls that body/ego/person that is "I". But when I have that **click** that I'm as real as a rock, everything just feels glitched. A The Sims game that went wrong.

It's so weird realizing I'm living life in first person, I, me, seeing through my eyes, and I'm not doing that in third person, he, him, his life, his desires, it's MY life, like...???? It's so so so weird, the world is like a big simulation and perceiving I am not doing things as seeing "from outside" feels so strange it makes me want to cry

Same, I also feel that since a kid! I vividly remember when I was 7 or 8 years old, at school, standing in a queue with my classmates and having that episode in such a strong way. I have it really frequently, knowing I'm a person, realizing that I am indeed someone, that I have feelings like everyone has, that I have genes, chromosomes, ascendents, realizing I'm someone who has digitals, that I CAN be recognized in a crowd, that I experience desires, I have a perception -- just like everyone in the world... It makes me feel so weird.

my heart dropped when I read that it felt like a movie. that’s exactly what I experience everyday and I’m glad I’m not alone

my heart dropped when I read that it felt like a movie. that’s exactly what I experience everyday and I’m glad I’m not alone

i get this ALL the time! I didn't realize it had a name and now i do so i feel a lot better about my situation.

i get this ALL the time! I didn't realize it had a name and now i do so i feel a lot better about my situation.

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat this sounds like depersonalisation! My experience with this is like watching life through the eyes of someone else with no proper control over what they're doing, even though I know it's actually myself. The way I look + sound doesn't feel right, and my emotions don't seem to be mine, almost like I can't truly experience them.<br>If you look up depersonalisation and any of that seems familar you might want to speak to your doctor!

a_cat_on_top_of_a_cat this sounds like depersonalisation! My experience with this is like watching life through the eyes of someone else with no proper control over what they're doing, even though I know it's actually myself. The way I look + sound doesn't feel right, and my emotions don't seem to be mine, almost like I can't truly experience them.
If you look up depersonalisation and any of that seems familar you might want to speak to your doctor!


I feel like that too...but not all the time, just random times, like I feel light headed and everything goes all blurry and I can't hear properly and I feel like I'm not really in my own body anymore, it lasts like 5 minutes for me but sometimes it can last a whole day


I used to have it since around 6 and I thought that I was always about to pass out but didn’t feel sleepy enough, just slightly almost dizzy like and it felt hard to talk when I’m in the state.


thank you for making this video. i’m so glad someone with a big platform like you is speaking out, i have the same condition 🥺💗


I have this but main prob for me is the Altered Size in Vision. If I stare at a object for long it will feel like it is getting closer and further from me. It's weird and hard to explain. That feeling comes especially while trying to sleep....


Woaaah the descriptions were so good. During one really stressful final exam week, I experienced a bout of depersonalization that lasted a few hours. Thankfully, I managed to google my symptoms and discover what I was experiencing and why it was happening. I think that helped me come out of it (on top of the stressors being gone). It was a horrifying experience, and I can't imagine having it chronically. You are so so lovely, Dodie. Stay strong <3


I love your words... so amazing and so bright... Thank you for sharing. Love you


Thanks so much. I feel like this all the time. I have no advice. I have no idea at all how to deal with it. When I just try to press though I get migraines. I can't figure out when to take a break because I'm too messed up and when to just power through.


I suffer from depersonalisation and derealisation through trauma (ptds). Some days it's much harder, it ends in binge-eating, little triggers are enough... Always teacher / professors told me, I would be overly "dreamy", but actually I suffer from it and can't really do much about it.


I don’t have derealization disorder but god I remember the times I’ve felt like that. I have severe anxiety so it usually happened in moments where the anxiety was so high that my brain physically couldn’t take it and just disassociated. (A lot of times it would happen at large functions such as parties and I’d just sit down staring in front of me, squeezing my eyes shut and opening them again trying to get that feeling away and my vision back to normal.)

It sucks having it for a short while. I can’t imagine every day :(


Only got it when two friend groups of mine that never met before, meet. But every single time i feel really disconnected then. Exactly the way you described it.


I have the same condition. I only just realized this, this year at some point. It's so nice to have people talk about the exact same thing you go through. For 22 years i thought that this was life. I also thought it was just my depression as well. It's interesting how late people find out things about themselves. I feel like everything is rendering to slow. Almost as if what is happening now has already happened, and I'm seeing a replay of it. Also i love your music! I wish i could write songs like you. I feel like it would help me out a lot mentally. Thank you for existing and bringing your art to this world.


i relate heavily to the mirror thing. ive stood in front of the mirror just staring and being confused af about how i am real and also just looking at my hands and feeling as if they dont belong to me


I have this constantly from being raised by an extremely narcissistic mother and didn't actually know that it wasn't normal until my senior year in high school when i found friends i actually trust telling things too and they told me that my experience is indeed "weird af" as they put is


I ALWAYS explain it as feeling like I'm dreaming all the time. I've never heard anyone else say it feels like they're dreaming. This was in my recommended and I've never clicked a video so fast because this is so accurate. It's the scariest thing I've ever experienced and do experience everyday. I'm sorry you've had to suffer. It's frustrating.

NessyGames Yeah I haven’t clicked on anything so quickly..

I always say that im having an out of body experience like astral projection while im awake

I connected with this video so much as well. Mine comes and goes. And the severity differs as well but when I’m not feeling there I literally can’t get out of bed. It messes with my mind so much! The only thing that helps me is when I get ultra focused on something in a quiet space( so like a YouTube video in the car or something) or sleeping. It sucks though I can’t even look in the mirror without this overwhelming feeling of that not being me. I had an episode I guess you can call it back a few years ago and I couldn’t stop crying. I went to my doctor and he told me I had allergies!! Now none of my family believes me and they think that I am a hypochondriac. But I have felt what you are feeling I know there isn’t something right with me but I feel like nobody will ever take me seriously.

Yes, mostly it feels like my emotions are dulled down. I don't feel real, I feel like I'm in a dream, everything including my memories is a bit of a blur, and I feel numb quite a lot. Everyone experiences things differently. It happens after being through something traumatic/multiple traumatic things and then your brain detaches and tries to protect you by essentially making you numb.

NessyGames i started experiencing the feeling of “not existing” or not feeling myself in the moment ever since i was around 8 years old, i’m 15 now. But it doesn’t happen all the time, it has been getting better over time. But when i do feel that way i look at my hands and i just feel like i’m a ghost or something. My mom after a few years began being concerned about it and we called the doctor and i told them what my “symptoms” were and I’m not sure if she mention this condition along with anxiety. But is it a similar feeling?


can't believe I just found out about this and I really wish I could have found it sooner.
just wanted to say that you're really brave and that I admire you so much for never giving up and being open to different treatment options even though they may not work. I don't think I have this disorder because again, it's only a disorder when it's maladaptive (meaning it interferes with daily life and being able to function like a normal human) but I have experienced several "dissociative episodes" as a result of my traumas. boy do I have a lot of those. hopefully I'll get to a point where I can one day finally be brave enough to get help outside of my licensed professional counselor and start seeing a therapist/trauma specialist.

sending all my love always<3


This is me. I had to explain to my therapists what derealization was, actually. :(


I’m glad it was from something I took and not a traumatic event. I feel like I have a better chance at recovering. I’ve been like this since February 13 of 2018 and everyone once in a while I feel almost normal. I’m getting there I’m trying so hard I messed myself up. I regret it every day of my life.


I didn’t realise this was an actual thing, I thought I was just tired and not really with it.

partofyourworld can this haziness/ unfocusing thing happen without being on any medication?

Self-diagnosing seems to be a common thing under Dodies videos. Hence all of the thumbs ups on this comment who probably do not have the condition but now believe to have it just because they are often tired.
Same with depression. No idea what they are talking about but listen to Dodie talking about it and think that because they are sad or gloomy from time to time, they are depressed.
Get an actual diagnosis before posting 'me too! Me too!' comments, please.

Charlie Kelly who peed in your Cheerios😟

Deuce Horn they replied to their own comment that they're seeking medical help

You should talk to your doctor and maybe Get a diagnosis

The reasons why you constantly feel this way are uncountable so I do suggest you to talk to a professional about it. In my case, I recently found out it was caused by depression.

did u have a feelin of haziness and could not focus? like u had too much benadryl? That may be a side effect of some meds or related to pms - i believe its called brain fog

Rosie Ferris I felt like I was tired so I started taking these iron pills and I realised they didn’t work. And now I found out a few weeks ago

Rosie Ferris I hope you figure out what you have and that it doesn't give you much trouble

Alright,  no offence to anyone but I don’t need strangers on the internet telling me what I do or do not/might or might not have. I’m currently seeking actual professional medical help.

You could be suffering from narcolepsy if you're chronically fatigued. That's much more likely than the condition which has been described in this video.

she didn't say she did and even if she thinks she does and/or does have it you don't have to be rude about it


More progress. Now I'm gonna go hunting for your most recent video on this. Loads of love from here.


Pretty late to this video, but yeah I'll share my story. In these recent years I just havent been seeing the world the same. I've had issues hearing people, and I just zone out without realizing. My hearing was fine long story short, yet I still struggle with "hearing" people. When I go to my locker, and put in the combo, I dont even see my hands as my own and everything gets foggy. Another time, I was bringing a binder back to the back of a room and just completely went to another world, I cant describe it so well. Some part of me believes that maybe I do have depersonalization/derealization, but then again maybe I dont.


I never heard about it and I am really surprised that it's such a common mental disorder. Time to do a little bit of research! :)


this video is the only reason i knew what was going on w me and that i wasn't just crazy. thank you.


hi there!!! im someone whos professionally diagnosed with dpdr at 14! its a struggle and its honestly horrible to deal with, please dont self dx with it. when youre traumatised as a child, dissociation and such is more prominent and i never realized how horrible it was until this age. ive dissociated for months on end, and its happened everyday. dpdr can be an asshole to deal with! everything shes explained is exactly what ive dealt with, and yes, you can be diagnosed with this sort of thing that young. nothing feels real at all, itll occur everyday that everything around you doesnt look real and it feels as if youre watching a video or playing a role as a protagonist in a game, if its easier for anyone to understand like that. nothings really helped with my dpdr, and its...something. therapy helps a lot with this sort of thing, and ive had dpdr episodes in the worst situations. you really, as she said, learn to live with it. it can be scary, very scary. i hope others are dealing with it as best as they can as well!


Wow. This is really interesting. I’ve never experienced this before


if anyone is reading this and still suffering, there is a way out of this, I promise. I highly recommend purchasing the DP manual which is about £35 and has helped me ENORMOUSLY in coping with this condition, and alleviating the symptoms. It's a pdf book as well as an audiobook and I seriously think it's the best way to get out of the disorder. Good luck x


i was diagnosed 5 months ago with dissociative disorder and derealisation and stumbling upon this video was a blessing. started crying immidiately for some fucking reason. ty for uploading this helped a lot knowing im not alone and so are many others


Sometimes I feel as if I can’t grasp myself. As if I’m watching a stranger live her life and she very rarely asks me what she should do next. Living in a theatre watching my life go by has been my reality ever since I can remember. Sometimes time stops and suddenly everything is too sharp and real. These are my peeks into reality, and they are quite frightening. Being spaced out isn’t so bad, it’s actually helped me through a lot, given I can’t fully experience some emotions. Dodie, you’ve helped me see that I’m not alone. I’ll always and forever be genuinely in love with you. ❤

We are in this together, lovely people ❤

It's Just Kayla Same!! You articulated this so well. I feel like this 24/7 and my peeks into reality are so, so stark, and vivid, but sometimes so unspeakably painful.

Damn you summed up my feeling perfectly.  It really is like I’m watching some random person live their life and all of the people around me aren’t real. Describing it as time suddenly stops is so real to me and it’s like everything is honed in on only me. Sometimes it feels like I can see myself walking from a distant point of view too.

That is exactly how I describe it to others! You will get better! Loves 💜💜

It's Just Kayla I understand, I often feel lile i'm floating anf that i'm not really here. I'm just watching a young teen ponder about life and death. Constantly spaced out and forgets things within a minute...


i started having derealisation not so long ago, but i found some things that help me sometimes. first of all, i just roll with it like its a badtrip - you can't control it, you just wait until it goes away, because eventually it goes away every time (for people who don't have it chronically). second, i try not to concentrate on it, cause anxiety just makes if worse and do stuff that grounds me: people help a lot - hugging, touching; tiktok and just concentration on one not deep thing<br>maybe somebody finds it helpful

i started having derealisation not so long ago, but i found some things that help me sometimes. first of all, i just roll with it like its a badtrip - you can't control it, you just wait until it goes away, because eventually it goes away every time (for people who don't have it chronically). second, i try not to concentrate on it, cause anxiety just makes if worse and do stuff that grounds me: people help a lot - hugging, touching; tiktok and just concentration on one not deep thing
maybe somebody finds it helpful


I struggled with this for about a year and had no idea what it was called and that other people dealt with it until now. I felt like I was going crazy and that at any point I could take a step and fall into a void. It's a scary feeling.


i have this too and its so good hear other people talking about


I find when I get super depressed and watch tv shows to escape reality I get super attached to the characters and when I return to reality I feel so empty because that world was so much better.


In middle school I suffered a lot from depersonalization and it got to bad I was actually hospitalized for two weeks because of basically a mental breakdown. I didn't know what was wrong with me and freaked the fuck out. Now I only get episodes maybe once a month and I've learned to cope with it. It's super scary going through life, not knowing what is wrong with you, or even how to describe it to doctors because you just don't know how. But once you're diagnosed, it's like a big weight that flies off of you, and you know that's the first step to getting better.

Veronica J can I ask you something?
I’m in high school and have been dealing with this for around 5 years,
Nothing works for me, I have no idea how to wake up, no pressure of course but how did you learn to cope?

Hey uh, I have a a few questions. I am in middle school (grade 7) and I have experienced this since 5th grade but I managed to get rid of it for a couple of months. Every day is basically a living hell for me because I feel as if I am a spectator. Anyway, did you take medications for DPD/DRD? Right now I am currently undergoing the Child & Youth Mental Health Services and they recommended I join the anxiety groups. <br>In conclusion, I feel so hopeless right now. I feel as if I'm never going to get cured. I just really want to get better so maybe if you could please go into detail about your journey to recovery?

Hey uh, I have a a few questions. I am in middle school (grade 7) and I have experienced this since 5th grade but I managed to get rid of it for a couple of months. Every day is basically a living hell for me because I feel as if I am a spectator. Anyway, did you take medications for DPD/DRD? Right now I am currently undergoing the Child & Youth Mental Health Services and they recommended I join the anxiety groups.
In conclusion, I feel so hopeless right now. I feel as if I'm never going to get cured. I just really want to get better so maybe if you could please go into detail about your journey to recovery?


I really struggled with this disorder and even more as i kept growing up it just kept getting worse where i was becoming schizophrenic bc i was just dealing with more personal stress and trauma and my disorder was getting in the way of my day to day life, but thankfully its calm down dramatically i dont stare at my hands and freak out i dont look at furniture and think theyre 3D stickers i can just grab, i dont wanna sound cheesy but my cure was my bf, i have bad abandonment issues since a child and thats where my derealization disorder started and worsened but he really helped filled in the gaps of trauma and i have wayy less episodes but i still cant hear and understand what their saying just try to understand their interactions or what theyre trying to tell me, every so often i struggle to socially function, and cant see as she described, forget often immediately without wanting to, unintentionally scramble up my words and the way i talk, and fog up making my movements and the way i do things difficult on myself


About 2 years ago i started to feel scared like a chill up my spine. Suddenly i felt dizzy and the noises around me made my head hurt. Everything suddenly looked different from before at this point i was about to cry. Since i was in school i asked my teacher if i could go to the nurses office once i went i explained to the nurse what i felt she looked at me funny called my parents and since then they believe it was some sort of spirit or that i was just stressed out so i'm happy to see that i'm not alone.


I believe I've  been dealing with this although I'm not diagnosed. Two years ago I went through severe emotional and physical trauma and was hospitalized numerous times for multiple reasons. When everything was returning to normal, something felt off. The more I focused on it the more frightened I became. Everything feels surreal. I find myself in a way at times convincing myself that none of this is real and that I'm in a nightmare. I'm still trying to find ways to cope with it. Anyway it's comforting to know now that I'm not alone.


Sometimes I feel like the world around me isn’t real even just for a second sometimes.


ANYONE ONE ELSE FEEL LIKE THIS : too derealised to talk to your therapist. I walk in and simultaneously faded out of my own body and yet im sitting there and saying im in pain, expressing all that's happened in recent weeks but looking at them, they look bored and annoyed and i realise that all this time my mouth wasnt moving. When it finally does move i end up muttering 'im fine' but they know im not, they just dont know what they can do to help as i cant say it. If ur having this problem, take a notepad in with with and write down ur thoughts as u think them before they run out of ur mind. What u could also do is write a list of feelings in a notepad and when in therapy, point to whichever one ur experiencing - once u start the conversation, it becomes easier to hold on to reality. If something really painful or sensitive comes up remember - u r as real as u want to be and so is the room ur in, the world u r in and the mind u OWN. U arent a slave to it, u just have to learn how to be good roommates :) hope this helps someone. Love to u all❤💜💙

That is hard. At the end of the day they are there for you and want to help they just don't understand. Try and explain as much as you can. I know how frustrating it is. My parents never used to understand and have said and done things over the years that have made my situation worse but its just because they don't understand it. I think you can agree its not the easiest thing to understand even when you are going through it and it is s*** ! Ultimately you can get help with or without them onboard but having family and friends that are close to you understand is honestly more helpful that it might feel.
Since the age of like 7 I remember being socially anxious since age 10/11 I felt like there was something wrong with me and from age 12 I wanted therapy. At age 18 I meet my best friends who really understand me. I am now 22 and I have this year finally made a breakthrough with my family helping them understand me abit more. They don't know everything that I have dealt with but they understand a lot more and living under their roof it makes day to day a load easier than it has been. I still haven't had therapy but I have been learning a lot about myself and my feelings and reading and watching videos and researching more about mental health it has helped me understand myself and others more. I am planning next year to get help because as good a base as I have now I am not ok I am not "fixed" and I still have horrendous moments or "episodes". I still need help but I am close to allowing myself and having backing to get the help I need and about bloody time! It takes time to get there and its different for different people I'm sure there are people who it takes a lot less time and some it takes forever just be as kind to yourself as you can :)
Ultimately you don't need their backing to get help but it does make a difference! I hope you get the help you need - don't give up!

This is exactly how I feel, also sitting in a bright as hell room trying to concentrate on the therapist is so hard, I hate one on one convos sometimes because I just get so spaced out and become unfocused and then when it's my turn to reply i'm like "whaaat?".

Wolfheart- I'm so happy i could help and i appreciate u taking the time to reply cos it really warmed my heart☺☺

i have the exact same, thanks for the tips!

Katie Snigs   My parents dismiss my emotions

Janai P  Oh how I wish I had a therapist

Janai P  Oh how I wish I had a therapist

Janai P thank you so much, this is great advice. I haven’t had a ton of problems talking to my therapist, in fact I’m saying more than I ever have, but even then there are a million thought that spring up that never leave my head. It helps a ton to think of your mind as a roommate and not a window you look through, to think of the world as just as real as you are, I really really appreciated this comment. Thank you again.


My therapist told me that I might have this. I would have to talk about it with my psychiatrist next week.


I had not heard of this symptom/problem, I guess my time was spent with the other two you mention. Great explanation, And your positive approach to try treatments and therapies to find what works for you is to be commended. For People suffering Mental health problems it is hard as the problems have an annoying habit of varying from person to person as to what helps beet them. so Do not worry if the first thing you try does not work for you. Just as Doddie has Keep in touch with your GP and by all means try other options but do let your medics know what you are trying. As a long term depressive with major anxiety Trust Me It Does Get Better. Slowly but it does get better. Doddie just found your songs on here and Loving then. Just learning to sing and theres one or two of yours I might have a go at but I will have to transpose it down to my voice. Loved your Santa Time songs in the Minor key making them slightly creepy.  Keep singing as it is fun not only for you but all of us Calum x


im so grateful for this video. I feel like no one treats it seriously like ohh its not that bad but BOI!!!! i feel so dissconected from everything, the world feels fuzzy and weird i cant see right ( got my eyes tested and was so spooked when they came out all right - i just couldnt understand why everything is so blurry yet my eyes are healthy), time flies either too fast or two slow, i can't focus on anything and my memory is shit (which caused me so much pain in uni - i had to re-take my tests four times and almost dropped out), it makes you paranoid because you're not always sure if you're dreaming or not, it's horrible okay and made my depression and anxiety disorders so much worse so tganka for speaking up about the issues, lots of love x


Facts Ive been diagnosed since like 2015 and its definitely and uphill battle, appreciate people who can speak on their personal struggles so openly.


I have a condition (well it’s not really a condition) where I can’t tell if my memories is a memory or a dream since my memory isn’t very good and my dreams are too realistic. It’s very disorienting because I never know when I reminisce about something if it even ever happened or did I dream about it. The dreams that I have feel like memories so I have no idea.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I THOUH I WA STHE ONLY ONE HOLY SUFIFDICK

@TheArtsyDork  been there done that only mine was caused by a mix of depression and meth induced psychosis

@Aiden Tuck true had that yesterday cant help it tho

I feel the same way all the time. I wasn’t aware that it’s a condition, thanks for leaving this comment so I could figure it out. I also experience similar things to Dodie, but not exactly the same. I also tend to forget things moments after they happen, yet remember them at the same time and I feel like I just woke up from a dream.

This happens to me so much omg when I was younger I used constantly dreamt that I was going to a random school and the same teachers and kids would be there every dream, I thought it was real and I still have solid memories from it but it was a dream, freaks me out

I thought that was just me! I do this all the time. Yay! Not alone! :) It still really sucks though sometimes

i have this too does anyone know what this is called? (if it has a name)

I don't have problems saying if something really happened but the thing is that it often doesn't FEEL as if it actually happened, as if I had really been there, in that moment, living this experience.

I have a similar problem, but it's less that my dreams are too realistic and more that my life is too absurd. When I remember something, I feel like it's just a dream I didn't remember, so I pretend not to remember anything so I don't mess up. In reality, I can remember things from several years ago if I feel strongly enough about it, which I usually do.

I think that my be from lucid dreaming too much?

Despicable Penguin omg this happens to me

toxic emotions <br>It was only one day. Just tell her and you guys can laugh about it together.

toxic emotions
It was only one day. Just tell her and you guys can laugh about it together.

This happens to me a lot and DAMN is annoying. I literally ended one of the best friendship I've ever had because of it. I thought we had gotten into an argument so I gave her the silent treatment the next day. Well turns out the "argument" was a dream and I lost one of the best of friends I could of ever asked her. I would try to make amends but I'm to embarrassed to even try to speak to her.

This happens to everyone at least once. Some more often than others.

Its not an condition but just the brain messing up lol

Dreams incorporate very real memories of people and feelings so thats probably why

Despicable Penguin This happens to me too. Recently I’ve also been wondering if I dissociate or depersonalize. I feel like I have a lot of problems that I didn’t even know were real things

Yeah this happens to me too, but I have had a few concussions and head damage in my life so that could be it too. I always feel bad after telling my friends a memory only to be told that it never happened.

Despicable Penguin this happens to me sometimes and will mix up reality and dreams. Like ill just remember something but cant remember if it happened or not and im aware im tripping


it’s funny because I use to think this was some sort of ADHD for myself, i came to the fact about 2 months ago that I actually have déréalisation-depersonalization. It is constantly a fear for me because it has gotten into my everyday activities and i’m constantly feeling drunk like you said and my vision and memory always being impaired, kinda feeling like a zombie in your body. I also tried antidepressants (zoloft, xanax, and prozac) those just increased the symptoms I had with this disorder. I’ve also found this is common in people with PTSD, I’m not sure if you have it but it’s constantly a fight for me and to stay away from suicidal thoughts. I hope I can get better from this and not have to deal with it like I experience it now, but anyways that’s my experience with it :). hopefully someone can relate and not feel to alone throughout this.


Dude this happened to me a lot when I was younger and even leading into grade 9, but now I’m in grade 11 and I haven’t had an episode like that in a really long time and it’s so weird having it out of my life. I used to always say “does anyone else feel like things aren’t real, or aren’t really happening” and I thought it was something everyone had at some point in their life, like my mind just disconnected with my body and surroundings and everything happening felt out of my control, it felt like a dream. This is so weird the more I think about it ahhhhhh.


Not sure if it's the same thing or not, but something like this happens to me. Not continuously, but occasionally, just when I'm doing something.


Something that helps during derealization is socializing and engaging in activities around you. It makes you feel grounded and proves that you're really there. I've had a couple of derealization episodes, which were horrible, and that's helped me. Right now I have less of those, so just know that it'll be okay, those feelings are just temporary if you seek and get the help you might need. I sincerely hope you'll find it and wish you all the best with recovery. x


I HAVE TIPS FOR YOU
Because I TOTALLY understand this! I actually just got over my depersonalization recently. I too used it as a coping mechanism, but more for anxiety and trauma like situations. The biggest thing for me was not recognizing myself. I would have episodes of depersonalization that would come and go, but I couldn't recognize myself for months. That scared me because I'm supposed to know myself the best, right? Wrong. I would stand in the mirror for an hour making faces and touching my skin. The scariest thing was looking into my eyes and not seeing life there.
So all you darling kiddos out there who struggle with this, here's a tip from my doctor that SERIOUSLY helps! Use your five senses and countdown on your fingers like this: 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, one thing you can taste. THIS IS SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO HELP it grounds you back to reality and IT WORKS GUYS. It's hard to remember at first, but practice (even when you're present in space and time), it'll become a habit.
I HOPE THIS HELPS
PEACE
THANKS

*I HAVE TIPS FOR YOU*
Because I TOTALLY understand this! I actually just got over my depersonalization recently. I too used it as a coping mechanism, but more for anxiety and trauma like situations. The biggest thing for me was not recognizing myself. I would have episodes of depersonalization that would come and go, but I couldn't recognize myself for months. That scared me because I'm supposed to know myself the best, right? Wrong. I would stand in the mirror for an hour making faces and touching my skin. The scariest thing was looking into my eyes and not seeing *life* there.
So all you darling kiddos out there who struggle with this, here's a tip from my doctor that SERIOUSLY helps! Use your five senses and countdown on your fingers like this: 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, one thing you can taste. *THIS IS SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO HELP* it grounds you back to reality and IT WORKS GUYS. It's hard to remember at first, but practice (even when you're present in space and time), it'll become a habit.
I HOPE THIS HELPS
PEACE
THANKS

i've read this advice a lot before but am i the only one who freaks out more when i try it? like i do this countdown and i'm even more scared because i feel that i can't really feel all that i'm listing, like it's very far away from me and and the more i concentrate on reality, the more it feels unreal. It makes my questioning of reality and of my senses just stronger :/ (i don't know if i sound very clear but maybe someone will understand what i'm trying to say and have some more tips ahah? anyway, thanks for your tips, i hope it'll help someone else, have a very good day my friend and i'm so happy for you that you've overcome your depersonalization!)

EDIT: also here are my personal tips, i don't know if i really have derealisation/dissocation but i feel like i'm constantly of the edge of it so here's what i do:
-i try really hard to distract my brain of the feeling of dissociation, it's super hard at first because the more you try not think about it, the more you think about it. If I'm with other people, I try to focus on what they're saying, even though it's super hard to concentrate on anything when you're dissociating, but at least i try because focusing on someone else saying is way healthier than listening to the bullshit my brains saying. If I'm on my own, I'll just listen to a podcast, especially one I've already listened to before as it will be something familiar but still i have to focus on what they're saying and it can distract me from dissociation as it goes direct into my ears with my headphones on.
-i play music! if you're a musician, that's what works the best for me, as playing an instrument and singing at the same time leaves no space for my brain to think about anything else. Playing the uke has always worked to calm me down and ground me, it's almost a miracle.
the only problem is that these (podcasts and music) are short-terms distractions, and it can make things worse as getting distracted from reality can, well, make it even less real, so it gets better for a little time and then it comes back harder. My goal for next year is to create a serious routine, and write down everything i do, i feel that it can helps a lot to keep you grounded, as a routine would help not getting lost in time and the writing helps remembering that what you've just lived was real and helps you not forgetting.
And last tip: i just go to sleep as it shuts down my brain for a while. But don't do it during daytime or you'll be completely lost when you wake up. I guess sleep routine is very important but i'm still struggling with it and i'm certainly not the only one ahah.
feel free to tell me if you've got some thoughts on this! Be kind to yourself, it'll get better my friends and life will be bright again! Love you all


I might have this too! ever since my huge panic attack at my band concert I haven't felt the same.

Update- here’s the tea about what I’m up to now.

I went to a therapist and guess what.... I DO HAVE IT! Every time I would go to stores or anywhere really hot or cold I would have an episode. It’s really scary and feels like you’re in a movie, except your the point of view that isn’t on screen. (Camera) I sorta just dealt with it and only have episodes if something scary happened to me prior to the episode. (Someone telling me bad news, falling off of my bike, or even getting really dizzy) I’m a lot better now luckily.


I feel like I’m just looking at myself while my body is doing thing that I would usually do by myself.


Woah okay. So I have felt like I’m dreaming and just hovering in a weird reality since the age of 5, it started when I first travelled abroad. Never ever have I felt the same since that day. I have even travelled back to that place to see whether I’d be able to untrigger that feeling. (It didn’t work) Of course I have never looked into it medically, I just thought that I was weird and carried on living. Eventually, as I kept on suppressing my mental health, it heavily back fired on me in my late teens (19/20) and I started to have major depressive episodes as mentioned. It got even worse, and after seeking medical attention + counselling, the doctors found an answer to my life long issue and diagnosed me with ADHD. Now, I wonder, is this similar to this? I am not taking any medication for ADHD,  so I haven’t had a change in behaviour so I still always feel like I’m dreaming. I always thought that this feeling was due to my ADHD, but could it be perhaps what this lady is talking about?


OH my god. I honestly think that this is what I deal with. It’s not CONSTANT but  I feel it. I feel your pain.


I don't think I have derealization/depersonalization but this is how I feel: Sometimes I'll be walking around or whatever then all of the sudden I get this weird feeling, I don't know how to explain it. Like I don't feel, real anymore, like, I'm dreaming, and like, I don't exist anymore, I feel like nothing. Then I'll start wondering things like, 'Am I real?' ' Is anything "real" anymore?'  But then I'll snap back into reality. Sorry if I'm explaining this weirdly I'm only 12 years old and I don't know what's happening to me... :(

@Hannah Montgomery 〈3 you described it as everything getting smaller I think that sounds more like Alice in wonderland syndrome and you should probably tell an adult if you think it's serious and if you should get a medication

I used to get that a lot as a kid and I can still get it now that I’m 16 if I think about it a lot, I had no other way to explain it other than I didn’t feel real and it goes when you distract yourself, for me personally I haven’t seen anyone like therapy wise or a doctor but through research I know that people who experience it it’s usually due to mental issues such as derealisation or depersonalisation, or bpd

Im also the same age as you and i have also that feeling sometimes. While im writing this i dont feel real and i dont feel like im writing this.

im 15, this is what happened to me, dont stress about it

HI omfg i have the exact same thing!!! I literally thought I was the only one but after reading your comment i finally know someone shares the same thing. glad to know im not alonee. have you found anything helpful?

Hey! Denationalization/derealization are symptoms as well as a disorder. so what you are most likely experiencing is the symptom rather than the disorder. The symptom is very common to have.  The disorder is an all the time thing.  Hope this helps!

omgggg i literally get the E X A C T same thing nice to know it's not just me,, and it only lasts for a few seconds too

I am Phan trash #1 well sounds like you definitely DO have it :(

Omg' that's exactly how I feel! I'm 14 now. And it first happened to me when I nearly drowned (that was when I was 10)
It's not happening regularly but just sometimes like in the bus or in class and i feel like everything gets smaller and smaller and everything you described.
It's a really weird feeling and it's good to see I'm not alone!

+Beef_Cheese_Lettuce<br>That is what Derealization/ depersonalization is like. What I did to help was to try and ignore it and not think about it. Don't try to go into a deep thought about how you feel because that will only make it worse.

+Beef_Cheese_Lettuce
That is what Derealization/ depersonalization is like. What I did to help was to try and ignore it and not think about it. Don't try to go into a deep thought about how you feel because that will only make it worse.

Existential crisis. Everyone has it every now and then. Nothing medically bad or w/e it's just life

When I was younger those little snap shots of unrealness used to happen to me. Like not a lot or for any certain situation, but just randomly once in a while. It is simply a moment of derealisation/depersonalisation, and its normal for someone to have a moment of it. Around 50% of people say they experience something like it in their life. It might never get to be anything more than that, so you don't need to worry about it right now. One day it COULD progress, but that's not to say it will, and if it did, at least you know what it is and that you're not alone, and there's help out there

That happens to me, and I’m the same age as you. Just stop thinking about it and it stops


Holy heck that's a thing?? I've had that same feeling for a couple years omg! (I don't think I have it, I'm not going to self diagnose because that's no good also I'm never talking to anyone about it because that's not a thing for me. But if you have feelings like this please talk to someone! It's good for you 💖💖)


Thank god I know that other people feel this way and that im not alone


This feels kinda similar to what I have which is aspergers syndrome but there are still things that make it different to what you have.


Everyone remember that their experiences are valid, and that if you feel like you need help then don’t be afraid to seek it. Take care of yourselves ♥♥


The leaving the movies and using the bathroom at a party were 110% accurate. I couldn’t have described DP better myself.


Me: Wow I've never heard of this before, it sounds kind of familiar
Also me: I wish Kati Morton did a video on this.
Youtube: Next up: dodi and Kati talk about Derealization and Depersonalization
:)


Just found out I may have this and I remembered this on it so I came here to find comfort


Sometimes it’s like I zone in but then a few seconds later I zone in again so the first time I zoned in I didn’t really zone in and that’s pretty much how I live my life


you’re the only person or thing i can relate to with this and i am soooo grateful

Rui Chen referring to the video not dodie!

Lydia Grey Me too! I had no idea this was actually a thing with a name till dodie's video last year!x


I remember watching this and appreciating you opening up but I didn’t relate. Now watching this after moving out on my own I relate to this so hard. So bad at memory and I just expect myself to forget everything, which I usually do. Adhd makes everything so hard to do and when supposed to be happy I just don’t feel it. I spend every happy moment telling myself to enjoy it because it’s going to end soon, and then I don’t even feel happy with that thought in my head. Definitely get thoughts and anxieties stuck in my head. Anyways:) ahaha


Thanks for the video. I smoked up yesterday and I went through some crazy shit. I thought I was going mentally crazy. I smoked and 30seconds later I closed my eyes and opened them back and my brain thought I was asleep however I was awake the whole time and I thought i was dreaming and thought everything was fake/unreal. I never felt like that till the first high I got which was yesterday. I'm okay now however I'm still thinking, what if I'm still asleep now? and all this is just a dream. I'm trying to persuade my self its real lol


when she says that the sensation 'never did' go away, she really meant 'hasn't yet'


I think the closest I've come to explain this is sleep paralysis I think, everything seems so real but distant and I forget everything for a microsecond and the my brain reboots like window vista startup..


this video is so well put-together and really informative, but isn't at all dry or dull at all- good job, dodie! : ) jeez dodie really is just a great human isn't she?


I barely ever comment on YouTube videos. I remember the day that this video came out, and I added it to my Watch Later playlist. I think I didn't want to watch it because I was afraid to admit that what I was feeling was real and a real problem in my life. Back in 2017-2018, I put a lot of stress on myself and I became very paranoid. I'm reading the comments and I'm realizing that I may not have DR/DP, but I definitely felt spaced out and disconnected with my surroundings, and I think freaking out about it kept making it worse. I remember feeling as if I wasn't alive, or as if the world doesn't actually exist. Idk why I'm bothering to write all of this, I'm very glad that I have gotten out of the hole that I was in for almost a year and I'm scared I may fall back into it. I still struggle with feeling like I can't remember certain things, such as recent memories with loved ones. For example, I won't see my boyfriend in real life for a week and I begin to question if he actually exists or not. Crazy stuff. I'm so grateful to have finally watched this 2 and a half years later.


Oh my god.....I either have this, or its all happening because of my ADD and Dyslexia......I honestly don't know what to think.


I’ve had this since elementary school and never realized it was a real thing. I used to have it every once and a while and now it’s everyday, it’s almost like living in a vr video game for me like it’s like you’re not actually there, you’re seeing everything but you don’t think you’re there. Everything feels too bright and everywhere I go I have to remind myself i’m alive and pinch myself to make sure i’m here


You explained it so well! I am relieved that other people have this too. I have been thinking on really weird things that is hard to explain and it leads to a lot of confusing which leads to EVEN MORE CONFUSION. Is that also included with the thingy?


ive had a really <b>really</b> bad few days (anxiety sucks) and im so glad you posted,,,, its the first time ive smiled in a while :)

ive had a really *really* bad few days (anxiety sucks) and im so glad you posted,,,, its the first time ive smiled in a while :)

Lauren Ness hope you feel better soon :)

Lauren Ness dodie always makes me feel better, i hope you’re feeling better soon! anxiety is the worst :/


It becomes real when you have panic attacks over the feeling, not the other way around.


it feels like i am watching event that already happened ,like a never ending dull memory that cant be escaped.For some reason when i am with my brother out driving the derealization goes at times ,maybe he grounds me in reality somehow.


This happens to me during the spring and summer and it's hell on earth


This happens to me when i dont get enough sleep.


this is gonna drown in the sea of comments but you've helped me so much- i found your videos about depression and dp;dr about the same time i started going through it and they helped me identify it and not feel as alone. <3


Is drug-induced derealisation a thing?
I’ve been ill since the start of 2020 and I experience all of the things you have spoken about, but only since the illness.

I am on chemotherapy and hydroxychloroquine. It would be nice to know if these medications can cause this or if it is more the stress of the illness.


This is what I have been trying to explain people...how i feel for past 1 year.


Sometimes I disconnect from reality but only for a split second and it’s weird. I usually get startled when I snap back into reality because I was only gone for like a split second. It usually seems like it happens when I’m going through a very routine thing and it’s gotten to a point where it feels fake or almost not happening like a filler setting of a dream.


I've always felt like I was just watching a movie, not even a movie about me. I went to my first day of school and a bit later I was turning 58. Strange.


Oh my gosh. I literally get this feeling all the time. It is most common with a combination of light changes and stressful situations. Ex. walking from outside into church triggers it, walking into brightly lit stores, going somewhere I haven’t been in a while, bonfires, etc. It’s so odd and I’ve talked to my parents about it but they don’t take it seriously because they’ve never felt it before, and I don’t know what to do.

My eyes would sometimes get teary-eyed when I'm in the mall because of the bright light, or even when I go outside our house it seems too bright for my liking. I also easily space out even when I'm talking with my friends (yes in mid convo) and they find it annoying because I sometimes find it hard to regain back my focus and continue what I was sharing.

I'm scared for the same reason, especially since this isn't as talked about as like depression and anxiety

The fucking same oh my gosh, also when my computer´s screen it´s too bright

Omg me too, i am so happy that there are people with the same problem

When I walk into a Supermarket or shopping centre I need to really adjust to it. I adjust easily in shopping centres which I am very anxious going to and panic when I first walk in but with supermarkets I can't adjust to the light and its happened ever since I got severe anxiety a year ago.

Connie the thing with mental illness/any psychological condition really is that most people don’t seem to understand that it is not something you choose to feel, or could just will away, but it’s completely involuntary the same as if you have a muscular condition that makes your shoulder hurt if someone pinches it

I experience the new environment thing and the light thing really really badly. Its so frustrating having to explain to people why I cant stay in certain brightly lit rooms for a long time. No one really seems to take it seriously

+CinnamonCrayola<br>Find a therapist near you which specialises in depersonalization or derealization.

+CinnamonCrayola
Find a therapist near you which specialises in depersonalization or derealization.

Wow, same here! Thought I was the only one who experience the new environment thing.


I felt that kinda thing last year in class, we were practicing our foundation day dance then i felt spaced out. Almost like a vegnito effect somehow


Have you’ve had some experience with different kinds of food and breathing exercises? I’m curious 🤗<br>Love to you 💗

Have you’ve had some experience with different kinds of food and breathing exercises? I’m curious 🤗
Love to you 💗


I had the flu in December, and I felt like this, and then I got better but then it keeps coming back in waves AND with a cold and I feel all strange and dreamy. It’s worrying me but I’m sure it’s fine.


My heart goes out to you. It was truly a relief to know one of the people I admire is struggling with something as well. I have my own unique issues, not the same as yours, but it's inspirational to know people who have it worse than me have come to acceptance and still attempt to live normally and follow their dreams. The closest I've experienced to yours is on a day after an all-nighter. That day literally feels like a dream with odd colours and a lightweight, lessened gravity, no-consequences-since-none-of-it-is-real kind of way.  Which makes me bolder to do  things with no inhibition but also scary as I can't tell right from wrong, sane from dangerous and rude from kind.


I have definitely experienced these symptoms.  My diagnoses is schizoaffective disorder but I have experienced few of the more intense positive symptoms.  Negative symptoms, and the feeling anhedonia as a result of medication I've experienced a lot, but when I was off medication, I definitely had that feeling that thing around me weren't real.  It was really easy to think I was in the matrix or a video game, or to think it was all some Emersonian inspired illusion.


For me I'm clinically diagnosed ADD/ADHD and I've had experiences similar to this. One time when I was younger around 7 my doctor and parents had me try a new ADHD medication at the time. I had an extreme type of reaction to this medication where I experienced derealization; It also screwed up my brain chemistry. This left me as a blank slate in terms of personality and is a cause of episodes of derealization, a couple every month. Just thought I'd share my story since it seems prevalent.


I don’t really think I have this but many times (like Dodie says in the video) I’ve felt like life looks darker than it should be. I was thinking it was depression, but I’m not sad at all! It makes me weird all the time:( pls help me


this makes me feel so much better. i thought i was alone when i felt like that. im not completely sure if i actually have  derealization but it definitely feels like it   <3


This sounds like me. But I seem to mask it alot! I always put it down to having fibromyalgia and ptsd. 10 years after diagnosis, I start having a spiritual awakening and trying to figure out what's me, and what's spirit, my higher self or creator? I always feel like I'm falling. . . I get very very confused when I wake up. Like what planet is this?


This is what happen to me when I first got anxiety attack when I was 12. I went to the emergency room because idk what was happening and it went away. After a month or two I had a panic attack and everything seems fine again except for the fact that the world of being unreal never went away. I did research and even went to see a therapist. I try explaining to her that this thing came back and idk how or what to tell her because I know she probably don’t understand since she never experienced it herself... I just stop going to see my therapist after that and try to live my normal life after reading someone comment. They said that they have had this experience for 10 years of their lives and they know is scary but try to get used to it. I try doing that but it’s just made everything worse for me to the points I just give up and try not to care about it too much. Literally I had to touch and feels hot or cold object to see if I am alive because Everytime I open my eyes, Is like a different world. Cartoonish or just more sharpe world


Ive only ever experienced this once. It was horrible, i was just staring at myself in the mirror, not even registering that it was me in the mirror. I felt like i was on autopilot. Experiencing that constantly would be awful


I feel like this since 2014, i even remember the day when i started feeling this way. At first i thought it was because of a brain tumor or something so i went to a clinic and done a MRI, turns out there's nothing wrong. Years later i started feeling worse and went to the doctor and he checked my thyroid, and again everything was fine. This year im finally going to a psychiatrist and maybe antidepressants might help somehow. What is most annoying to me because of this is i feel like time passes so quickly and im missing out a lot in life.


you talking about it has made me feel so much better. you've made me feel like im not just going crazy and that my feelings are valid. thank you so much for that.


I was in a dream state for almost a week straight (was on a holiday far from home) that was the longest I had it. I felt like if was stuck in a dream which causes me panic (I cant look at myself in the mirror when having it because I get scared of myself). Now I have it when something triggers me: severe stress, sadness, panic, talking about it etc. Should I see a proffesional?


I often feel like I’m dreaming, but not in a “I can’t remember aaa” way, but to me my eyes I have open aren’t my eyes, I feel like I have eyes behind 5em I can open and bring me to reality.

As a religious person, I think maybe it’s a spiritual thing, a soul thing?

Also, I can’t distinguish real life or dreams, they merge, I don’t even know if this is real life right now.  Just in case it is real life

How are you!

Thats exactly how I explain it to people. I feel like my eyes aren't mine and Im somewhere behind them in my head looking out from far away.

I'm fine! Actually i dont know but i have some mins of my life where i feel like i'm in a movie and that my self isn't me you know? And in a part of my life i had these memories that are completely useless that just pop up to my head and i can't get them out or think of anything else,I hope your feeling alright!!


I've only had a disassociative episode once when I was 14. There was somewhere between a week and a month that's just... Not there? It's something that's put in a box in my head and I don't pay much mind to it because I've never had an episode since but, it was a scary thing for me.


Buying your book. Wonderful, descriptive writing.


Obviously I don’t suffer from this to such an extent but I always find when I get very panicky or struggle with my ocd I always feel very spaced out for a day or two. Knowing how uncomfortable this is on a small scale, I can only hope that this gets easier for you. Neve x


I'm often watching everything happening as if I'm watching a YouTube video where I'm not part of it (happened more last year)and sometimes I'll notice that I'm actually part of it XD<br>Oh and my memories are often in third person for some reason idk why lol

I'm often watching everything happening as if I'm watching a YouTube video where I'm not part of it (happened more last year)and sometimes I'll notice that I'm actually part of it XD
Oh and my memories are often in third person for some reason idk why lol


Just came across this while searching for 'feeling spaced out' and so much of what you said hits home. Came as shock for someone to explain a lot of what I have been feeling for past 2/3 years now. I went to doctors had my eyes tested and apparently I'm fine, yet I don't feel fine. People's faces freak me out sometimes and I feel like I don't recognize familiar faces, but do at the same time.


this vid is honestly so helpful to send to people because dodie explains it so good


I’m having the same problems when it gets late I feel like I’m disconnected and not responsive, it’s really causing me stress and I hate how I get it


I also have a type of dissociation and depression. Today in particular was a very bad day so thankyou for talking about depersonalization and pulling me out of a mental breakdown. I may just be one person but I’m sure many people watching appreciate you. Thankyou so much dodie💛💛


When I stand up, I get really dizzy like I’m about to faint and I lose my vision for a second and then I just take a moment to stand still and then everything is fine again. I know you will feel dizzy after laying down for a long time but I don’t know if anyone else has had to literally jump back into bed before they actually faint. This could be an iron deficiency or something else.


I tend to start spacing out a lot when I'm anxious or depressed, which is a lot seeing as I've had chronic anxiety my entire life.  So in case you want some tips, here's a few ways I get back to myself when I'm spacey.  first off I try and avoid places with weird lighting, I close my blinds and put on all my warm tones lamps and candles; this makes me feel safer and more personally attached to the place I'm in.   Try doing some sort of simple paper craft, I recommend paper crowns since their simple but you could also knit or sometimes I just mend socks, the point is pick something that takes enough focus that you cant disengage, but easy enough that you don't forget the world around you.  try talking to someone,  I usually pester my little sister, sometimes interacting with other people can help ground you to this reality.  Try a hot bath! the warmth of the water will fill up your senses and some soft music can keep you focused so you can come back to yourself in comfort.  if all else fails try reassuring yourself that your safe, speak to yourself like you would a best friend "its okay to be here, nothings going to hurt you," "we can process our feelings safely together, you don't have to leave."


This was me about 7 months ago. The way I got rid of this feeling is just don’t think about it. First of all don’t worry you have derealization now get over it your stuck with this feeling. Just do something that gets your mind going. Do a puzzle or play games. Just try to not think about it at all.


I have this, it really makes everything feel kinda useless and scary, but comforting in a bittersweet way? that's how I usually describe it to others, and it really messes up my life. I'm still a teen, and I've had depression for almost forever, which has only recently started getting help.


My mom has these symptoms and she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. Lyme Disease can cause an out of reality feeling (which she has had for ten years!). Please look into it and I hope this helps. I don't normally "diagnose" people but this sounded so familiar I had to say something.

I have this 24/7 and I have Lyme as well!

good comment.  also I have Multiple Sclerosis and my vision is affected and I can relate to the way she feels big time.  my brain lesion were confirmed on an mri WITH contrast.


Hey I know this was ages ago but I’m really struggling with this right now too. I know I’m not going crazy but it feels like I can’t convince myself that this is real life, although deep down I know it is, and I’m comparing myself to people who are insane which I know I’m not obviously because if I was I wouldn’t be questioning it. I’d be delusional.


when i suffered from anxiety and panic disorder small derealisation phases for example after coming out of a movie as you explained would absolutely trigger that and it sometimes was really horrifying to me. i'm so glad i never had to experience it as a disorder... that's also one reason i never drink alkohol or consume any kind of drugs that would change they way i realize my surroundings (including things like putting in coloured contact lenses that would change my vision for example).

not about the disorder itself but normal derealisation people experience already makes me freak out lol (or at least it had to some degree, i learned to live with my anxiety and panic disorder through therapy and stuff)


Hi, I’m nine and today I experienced something like this. I was at school and came back from lunch I then sat down and it felt like I was sinking into the floor, I got up and it felt like a dream it felt like my actions and words didn’t matter because it was a dream not to mention that if I close my eyes for long enough it feels like I’m shaking i was walking around and I was asking everyone is this a dream? Please tell me if this is the same thing as what you are speaking about then I have no idea what caused it please reply guys with suggestions/tips/what it is


im aware everyone is saying the same thing, but I’ve just gotten so much closure from this. im not saying I do have this... but everytime im anxious or stressed I feel like this. every time. it used to just happen when I was tired, but it happens a lot more now.


Disassociation is quite frankly one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever experienced. I have PTSD, and in high stress situations I’ll have episodes where I depersonalize or derealize, and the only way I’ve ever known how to describe it is that it feels like your astral projecting and yet your still expected to function like you’re inside your body. My episodes can last a few hours, but I can’t imagine how it would feel to have an episode and never be able to come out of it. Props to you for sharing something like this, especially when it’s so difficult to explain to others who’ve never felt it.

For me, my disassociation comes for months at a time. I’m lucky that at least it isn’t all the time and it does vary. When I am in a episode, they are strong. I find it feels like I’m just watching a movie and my body moving isn’t really me. It is terrifying. I find making/hearing noise tends to calm me. Especially with repetitive noises, I.e a heat pump or talking or rain

Abi Wilson Yes! Its exactly like this, Abi.

Abi Wilson <br>While I can't understand what you are going through just know that others dont have to be able to understand in order to help you. If nobody you know is able to help with this right now just know that sooner or later you will meet someone or someone's who will be able to make you more comfortable and happy. I'm proud of you for getting through your life regardless of the struggle. Because that is true strength. Stay strong :)

Abi Wilson
While I can't understand what you are going through just know that others dont have to be able to understand in order to help you. If nobody you know is able to help with this right now just know that sooner or later you will meet someone or someone's who will be able to make you more comfortable and happy. I'm proud of you for getting through your life regardless of the struggle. Because that is true strength. Stay strong :)


Whoa I used to feel this around 2008-2009 when I was in 6th grade this was the time I was always left alone at home because my mom has cancer and my dad had to go work somewhere far while my sister parties every night and sometimes doesnt go home


this is what im going through its like being drunk all the time. thats what i was thinking


it's nice to have a better way to explaining it to other people that "it's like reading a book all the time"


Yep yep yep... For me, it has always been a symptom of a depressive episode. Usually one of the last symptoms to get better too. Last time was the worst because it was my first depressive episode with glasses and somehow, glasses seem to make the derealization much worse?? I was convinced that the prescription was off, because everything looked too sharp and 3D and just not real. But the doctor said it was fine. It's always worse outside, probably because I don't really wear / need my glasses indoors. It got better. I still see weird, but I don't really pay as much attention to it and I don't automatically associate it with "unrealness" anymore.


Part of my Panic disorder is derealization. I had no idea what it was until I came across the movie w/ Matthew Perry called "numb", that is when I first heard the term Derealization (DR) and it was like a light bulb moment.   "I now understand what this wacky sensation is".  Thankfully mine is only triggered by specific things and does not last too long.  Really hot days, lack of water, too much caffeine, panic attacks and not enough sleep. What sucks for me, it used to hit when I am running Summer camps for ASD youth. Heat, stress & caffeine are my summer time triggers.  Other moments that are challenging, having it strike in the middle of a conversation.  Usually my first thought is impending panic as its closely related to my panic attacks and keeping my cool while the person I am talking to has no idea of the panic I am feeling.  What helps me:  1. Calcium Magnesium daily. There is a lot of research in how it helps the brain.  For me, lessens the frequency of panic attacks and derealization.  2. Sleep, this can be hard when stressed but a proper sleep cycle helps a lot. 3. staying hydrated, no idea why but when I drink lots of water when derealization hits, I start to feel better. 4. and maybe this is related to #3, connecting w/ my surroundings.  I ground myself by dragging my feet to get sensation back into my body, or to help my brain reconnect to my body.  Maybe the cold water helps to give sensation?  One day my students were walking walking out of a cool building and the heat hit me (40c hot day), the DR hit me like a ton of bricks and I could not catch up to my students.  I yelled at them to come back, wow, instant reality check.  I was back in my body and fully present. I talked to a friend and he will yell while driving to get back to reality.  So yelling for some reason worked.     5. Stay away from caffeine. I think of DR as related to panic disorder so the goal is to stay calm, lower stress, keep my cortisol levels in check and sadly give up on the yummy bean water, I really do love coffee.  I stick to tea and go for decaff later in the day.  I hope this helps some of you. If anyone needs to connect, I work with people who have Anxiety, autism and ADHD.  Feel free to connect if you need someone to talk to about derealization/depersonalization or panic attacks:  John@spectruminsights.ca  www.spectruminsights.ca


Sadly I’ve had this since I was 16. I’ve come to accept it at this point. I’m 26 and trying to finish college, but as much as it sucks, I don’t remember much of what happens anyway and I figure as long as I’m making progress in this fake reality, then maybe I’ll come back to consciousness someday. Everything around me is there, but it’s not there. I can look at a beautiful flower or another person and see, hear, and touch them, yet something is weird about them. Something is off. I hope they do more research into this.


This often happens to me quite a bit actually. I mean it definitely comes on more when I dream about things whilst listening to songs, which I know may happen with a lot of people, but I often find myself spacing out in regular activities when I’m not listening to music (and have since I was around 12), as well as not having a great attention span and memory. Yet this never seemed to bother me, only the dull headaches that would come on randomly.


I do feel like I am always dreaming but not in a dissociating way. For me , I am still very  engage in life but deep inside me, there is always this feeling or sense that life is not as we see or think it is. In my relationship with it  , there is no suffering around it. It was not always like that . The knowing of the dream state  started when I started meditating and it was gradual and I didn't notice how I got there. I had struggle too because there was often this thought and this feeling that if life is a dream, it must be meaningless. And also feeling alone and not understood. Grounding yourself with meditation practices,  sports, singing and all sorts of activity you can be part of is very helpful for embodying yourself more deeply. I think too be embodied fully,  we need to be immersed in a transcended view that included both the knowing of the dream and the knowing of the realness of life.


I struggle with dissociation which apparently is connected to my bpd... Can relate to so much of this! I also thought I was loosing my vision at first..

yep yep. went to a psych ward twice and diagnosed, told it was severe, took meds but they were more for my mood. dissociation is literal fucking hell because it often leads to panic attacks in public for me.

I was just about to make this exact comment.... I recently learned I have BPD and what dissociation is because I thought I was having blackouts. I feel like I float just above my head and like my body isn't mine/real.... like I'm using a VR headset but sometimes I find out that I actually am the character???? If that makes sense.

SAME THING WITH ME. I had a bad experience with weed, and ever since, i no longer feel real or alive. I disassociate constantly.

I have cyclothymia which messes with me and I also constantly feel like im not actually alive or im dreaming, and It terrified me for 2 years, I since then have learned to live with it. We're not alone. <3

The first time this happened, I was 5.  I was riding home with my mom in a van.  I don't remember where we'd gone or anything else in relation to that day.  I went to double check that my seatbelt was on, and I realized that there was no way I could know for sure that the seatbelt was real and was truly fastened.  This progressed to me wondering if I was really in the van or in my bed and having a dream.  And then things spiralled to wondering if I was just a character in someone else's dream.  It's never really gotten better, and I find that my reaction to terrible things happening around or to me is first to just watch and think, "Well, that doesn't matter because none of this is real..." even if I'm actively being injured.  But I've learned to kick myself and say, "It may not be real, but you have to act like it is, just in case, and DO SOMETHING!"  I was also diagnosed with social anxiety disorder and BPD at 16, so I guess I'm not alone in that.

I do too! I dissociate when I'm at a peak with stress, or a low point with my bpd, and sometimes it can be terrifying because when I snap back into reality, I don't really know what's happening.

Ems The Unicorpse borderline personality disorder, it sucks lmao

I was in the same boat, and as a man treatment for bpd was hard. But I not feel dissociated anymore, reality is sharp and beautiful thanks to the right medicines (which at this point my doctor is tappering off). never give up

oh ok thank you for letting me know and sorry back to you

Jazmine Salazar it’s another form of dissociation and it can get pretty bad

Jazmine Salazar that’s exactly how I feel with mine ): I’m sorry you can relate

When you have bpd does it sometimes feel like you are someone else? Thats how i feel sometimes and its like an alt ego and i think his name is jf

I relate to this a lot as well, severe dissociation and BPD itself makes life such a living hell

My parents say i have bpd, but i dont really beleive them and ive never been diagnosed, but i recently got drdp from smoking weed and i miss being real. Is drdp linked to bpd


I get this. Alot of the time I feel like  floating to get places. I'll literally be walking and be like how did I get here? I don't remember walking here. If I'm on my electric bike, I'll be confused if I'm actually on my bike or if it's just a dream. This is why I'm scared to learn how to drive, it's not safe.


I have the same thing, except it was brought on by drug use. :-( So I have no idea what could combat it.


I have DPDR too :,) never heard someone else say they had it too


I had derealization and the whole 9 yards. I remember feeling hopeless last year searching video after video just wanting every thing to end. No one believed Or understood what i was going through not even doctors. I been in your shoes and God sent me to tell you. Everything will be ok, you will be healed. Plz hold on and dont give up. I know your pain! It is scary! But God got you. I never thought i would heal but i healed…If your diet is bad and you dont get enough nutrients plz look into that! Big factor of what cause mine was malnutrition and lacking minerals.. Also idk for sure if candida was the cause but i was taking cold delivered probiotics highy quality..Also exercise is important i would walk around my apartment complex…barely able to walk one lap the first time…because my panic attacks were so bad. If you are lcking nutrient plz be careful with fitness..Also be around love ones it helps so much! I love yall plz dont give up i know the feeling of giving up…but dont your worth more than that!! You can make it out! Also try juicing cucumbers melons apples and stuff high in h3o2. You could be dehydrated. Idk specifically which one is to blame but i focused and those four things. You will be healed I love you dont give up! God put me through it so I could come back and help others! You got this!!


I love how open you are about your mental Heath and How great you are at describing it😊😊


I have moments where it feels like I’m almost floating outside my body or I’m dreaming like I’m in a dream.


I live alone. I've made a little place for myself. I'm good and sometimes not. I am losing my eye site. I have problems wondering if my reality is a dream. I get confused about what I'm doing. I'm just so excited to see you at Odgen in Denver. I'm flying from Alaska to be there. I try my best to not drink so much but I always LOVE a positive music party. I can't wait ❤


I'm pretty sure I have this, as well as aphantasia. It took me a while to realise 'hm.... That's not normal' I also assumed it was depression and suicidal thoughts, but then I realised oh wait, it's not that ... It's something else..


D E R E A L I Z A T I O N
It's been with me so long now, that I find it hard to imagine life without it.
I finally got my diagnosis last winter - It's been quite a relief, but finding professional
help in it, doesn't seem to be too easy.

I've been trying grounding techniques with my new therapist. They never release me from the fog, but they do generally act as a good measure to see how bad it is in a given day.
I've stopped trying to get rid of it, only focussing on minimizing stress - being very aware of my 'state' and for all cost avoiding another depressive episode: 5-HTP has helped me with that too. I fill the rest of the disconnect with philosophy, art and music.


I have never been through anything like that but I can imagine how crazy it would be.


I am diagnosed with chronic DP and often experience DR and I can relate so much to this video. I been working for three years now with different treatments and meds with no luck so far. But, I have learnt how to live and cope with it and still have a life worth living and still keep trying to find a solution. The most effective so far to reducing the intensity of the Dp/Dr is trauma work. Also avoiding very hot humid places and very loud crowded places that make it worst.


It feels dark inside of my head. It really feels like it's only my vision that's affected. My thinking patterns are very normal. I feel like I have no influence on anything around me.


I have bipolar, Ik how it feels😞 dissociation is so hard to deal with


This comment is going to disappear under a lot of others, but I wanted to tell you that I heard your song "in the middle" in a store here in France, I so was so supprised ! But I had a lot of fun singing in public one of your songs, it was so weird ! ^^

+mother panda same here ^w^ mais je peux parler un petit peu de français

Esme the Artist Thank you so much, I really thought it would get swarmed :') Well at least I have better hopes that she will read it ! ^^

A cachecache et bonobo, j'étais en train de regarder les robes en dansant et en chantant j'étais tellement heureuse !!!

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Desjardins Hanna haha thanks! I’ll keep at it. At least French isn’t that hard compared to Latin, which I also do. And Korean is even harder, but I’m self learning that. Yeah, haha, wish me luck 😅

mother panda that is super great! You will see, the more you read, the more you practice and the better you will get! And good luck in learning french because it's a quite difficult language, but not impossible (ok bye if I don't stop here I'm gonna write a novel about learning languages)

I don’t speak French but I’m learning at school, and I’m so proud that I’m able to understand these comments 😂

Oui, c’est trop cool. Et quel magasin? ^^


Happens often to me, I think it started like 2 months ago


This video is very old but I just got diagnosed with this and it feels scary. This helped so much. Thankyou


I’m really sure I don’t have this issue but I actually think I might’ve had a few episodes of something similar during stress in my life. There’s a couple months of my life where my depression and anxiety were extremely severe, I broke my ankle, my parents separated and my mom was committed to a mental ward and basically August 2016 to April 2017 feels like it didn’t happen. I can barely remember anything but staring out car windows and crying after school...

Although I quite frequently have a problem where something just FEELS wrong. Can’t explain what it means but the world and my life feels incorrect, it doesn’t last more than a few weeks at a time but it’s like this feeling of something looming over you but you don’t know what it is and reality is just abnormal... I don’t even know how to describe it but I’ve been told it’s just a symptom of depression.

I also get a weird feeling at night like there’s something blocking my vision even when there’s nothing there and I know I can see but my brain tells me there’s something covering my eyes even though they’re wide open and telling my brain that they can see. I really don’t know anything but it’s weird


So I’ve been having these episodes that kind of sound like what you described as derealisation, but I only have them sometimes. I’d say about once or twice every two weeks? Maybe even way less. I’m not sure if it’s really a kind of derealisation or I just have a big imagination. I mostly had it when I was younger during soccer matches, but that was also only once a week, even though I’m only 13 right now (turning 14 next month), and I think that was about 2 years ago. If someone knows if this is not derealisation and I just have a big imagination, please tell me, or tell me anything really, right now I’m just trying to get more educated on it before saying that I have something close to it. (Except for here then).

Edit: these moments are really short to, and I don’t think they are as bad as actual derealisation.