Depersonalisation involves a profound disruption in self-awareness, leading individuals to feel detached from their thoughts, emotions, and physical bodies. This surreal experience can be disorienting ...

“You’re going to think I’m crazy,” Callum said, looking down at his hands as he wrung them together in his lap. “It’s just that everything feels like a dream. I know I’m not dreaming – I mean – I ...

You’re staring straight ahead. Somehow your awareness peels away from you, in slow motion. It’s like you’ve cracked in two, and one half is facing the wrong way. Are you in your physical body, which ...

The depersonalisation syndrome comprises feeling of unreality in relation to the self, the experience of detachment from the external world preserved as unreal and distant, and ‘automaton’ experience ...

DPD can manifest in several ways (Picture: Erin Aniker for Metro.co.uk) Have you ever woken up to find yourself feeling not fully awake, as if you’re still trapped inside a dream? Have you looked down ...

‘Everything is just completely flat,’ says Joe Perkins on this week’s episode of Metro.co.uk’s mental health podcast, Mentally Yours. ‘You as a person don’t feel real. The world around you doesn’t ...

“I am emotionally intense, but mostly I feel nothing, empty, detached from reality and those around me…” Do you feel like the world around you is unreal? Do you feel as though you are watching your ...

Allison Pugh explains how we have ended up in a moment in which machines have time for people, while human workers rush by, bent to the dictates of the industrial clock, and maps out its implications ...

Emma Černis runs the Midlands Dissociation & Depersonalisation Centre. She has previously received funding from the Wellcome Trust on the topics of dissociation and depersonalisation. “You’re going to ...