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

Picture this: Life looks fine from the outside. Work is stable, relationships are intact, and nothing “obvious” is wrong. Yet inside, there’s a relentless, private interrogation running on a loop: Why ...

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

“It’s an experience of feeling detached from your mind, feelings, sensations — kind of like a sense of unreality,” says the clinical psychologist Lauren Gonzales, PhD, an assistant professor of ...

When I was 28 years old, a psychologist informed me that I was not, in fact, a sociopath. “You have depersonalization-derealization disorder,” she told me. “How high did I score?” “Pretty high. For ...