In Psychology (or Psychiatry), the depersonalization (or derealisation ) indicates the experiment of a feeling of loss of direction of the Réalité. A person suffering from this disorder to the impression which it changed and which the world appears less real (it is fuzzy, as in a dream, or misses direction). DSM-IV class depersonalization as being a form of dissociative disorder, although the depersonalization in itself is generally characteristic of a different psychological traumatism.

Symptoms

The individuals suffering from depersonalization feel at the same time detached the world and their own identity/physical incarnation. Often, the people having tried out the depersonalization say to have the impression that “the life resembles a film, the things appear unreal, fuzzy, feeling of giddiness and of large tiredness” the feeling of personal identity breaks (from where the name). A person prone to this disorder can have the impression that the life is a dream or a kind of illusion.

Certain subjects also say to have the impression to be phantoms. In spite of its efforts, the subject does not have the impression to really interact with the world. It does not seem able to be regarded as normal. Although the subject fights to try to feel the things normally, a share of him even seems to push it to give up the fight. A suffering individual of depersonalization is particularly prone to the suicide. he can indeed take a suicidal step in a calm and detached way.

To summarize, the depersonalization is thus a deterioration of the perception (or experiment) of oneself, such as the subject feels unreal. The person feels detached reality and her own body/mental process.

As well as possible to describe the physical demonstration of this feeling, one can also compare it for a cinematographic purpose running: The Dolly compensated for. With this technique, the subject of the image remains fixed while the bottom of the decoration seems thorough backwards. This effect gives a feeling of giddiness or detachment. The people prone to the depersonalization can thus feel this effect in a cyclic way in the two directions and more or less quickly.

Bond with a psychological traumatism

One admits a relationship between the symptoms associated with the depersonalization and with the psychological traumatisms. However, if the problem evolves/moves in disorder (persistent and recurring), it becomes important to treat it, since it can lead to the suicide, the depression, with a loss of direction, a lack of spirit, and with a general apathy. The condition (or the symptom) is usually observed in conjunction with other mental health disorders, in particular with the disorder of stress post-traumatic (or traumatic neurosis), with the depression, the crises of panic, certain neuroses, and can be accelerated by the use of marijuana. The depersonalization is not a Illusion or one is delirious in oneself, although it is often deferred in the event of is delirious acute. It can be a sign of a beginning of schizophrenia (an index revealing the disintegration of the personality).

The people suffering from this disorder often report that the depersonalization is more intense with the alarm clock.

Treatment

The depersonalization remains one of the rare disorders in modern psychiatry for which one did not establish a remedy which is even only partially effective, that it acts of a pharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatment.

The vitamins and the minerals such as the Omega 3, magnesium, calcium, zinc, iron, or the B6 vitamin, made it possible to reduce, and in some rare cases, to remove, the feelings of derealisation and depersonalization. A healthy nutrition, adapted, and regular physical exercise are priceless methods to reduce the Anxiété and to improve mood. All the stimulants must be avoided, because they are likely to amplify the anxiety, and thus, at the same time, the feelings of derealisation and depersonalization.