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- noun psychology The
psychological symptom in which theworld appears to beunreal , and the patient has a sense ofdetachment from it
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Examples
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I digested it at a very strange time in my life, while suffering from an undiagnosed anxiety disorder that took the form of what I only much later discovered was termed "derealization" -- a horrific sense of my cognizance somehow detaching, leaving me viscerally frightened and, after several episodes, more or less convinced I was suffering from a tumor or else losing my mind.
Archive 2006-07-01 Mac 2006
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Zarate did mention that his patients suffered certain adverse events, including “perceptual disturbances, confusion… increased libido…euphoria and derealization.”
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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If anyone might explain why an eclipse of the sun could arouse in him such a profound sense of derealization, Marcel might.
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*** Looked up, among other psychiatric terms, depersonalization and derealization.
June 29th, 2007 2007
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The derealization is quite real; I've fought it for years, with an ever-refined arsenal of prescribed substances.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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The symptoms you describe sound like they might be those of depersonalization and derealization, which are often related to underlying anxiety disorders.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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At the moment, she understood, they were all suffering from acute stress disorder, a precursor of post-traumatic stress disorder that included all the PTSD symptoms, plus severe dissociative symptoms like selective amnesia, affective numbing, and derealization.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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Irene, a specialist in dissociative disorders, had been called in by the defense to testify that Paul suffered from a depersonalization/ derealization disorder.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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At the moment, she understood, they were all suffering from acute stress disorder, a precursor of post-traumatic stress disorder that included all the PTSD symptoms, plus severe dissociative symptoms like selective amnesia, affective numbing, and derealization.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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Irene, a specialist in dissociative disorders, had been called in by the defense to testify that Paul suffered from a depersonalization/ derealization disorder.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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