Have you ever felt detached from your body and didn’t know why?

well it might be caused by derealization.

Sometimes people and objects around you can seem not real, smaller or bigger than usual. For the bigger case of derealization the person will have some form of illusion, panic attack, vomiting, fainting and will have difficulty breathing. 

Health research Funding reports that stress and anxiety are the primary causes of derealization. Women are twice as likely to experience it as men. About 50% of the general population have had at least one experience of and up to 66% of people who experience a trauma will have some form of derealization.

The effects in long terms are the partial loss of pleasure (the individual does not manage to fully appreciate certain things when he is aware of it as well as the feeling of not thinking properly (feeling of being outside yourself). Depending on the person, these effects can be felt to a greater or lesser extent, sometimes even chronically.

A patient victim of derealization testifies this « I am here but not here. I am with you but elsewhere. It’s like there’s a veil, a sort of haze between the world and me».

Maurice Krishaber, an ENT specialist (ear, nose and throat) proposed derealization was the result of pathological changes to the body’s sensory modalities which lead to experiences of «self strangeness» and the description of one patient who feels that «he is no longer himself». 

How to get rid of derealization: the most effective way to treat derealization disorder involves therapeutic treatment. But for the worst case the person will have to take medications such as anti-anxiety and antidepressants.