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Depersonalisation and Derealisation
Derealisation and Depersonalisation are both 'Dissociative disorders' and sufferers of one can experience the other.
Many clients come to us in a distressed state, having been told by some therapists/professionals that they will have to live with depersonalisation forever. This is not the case. We know from our high success rate that The Linden Method can help you to overcome this well known symptom of anxiety.
First of all, understand this - depersonalisation and derealisation are completely normal symptoms of anxiety disorder. Although very disturbing at times, they are completely harmless, think of them as a daytime dream. They DO NOT mean that you have any other condition, a mental illness or that you are going mad... they are just more anxiety symptoms.
Depersonalisation
- Depersonalisation
A change in an individuals self-awareness such that they feel detached from their own experience, with the self, the body and mind seeming alien.
Clare talks about her experiences of Depersonalisation.
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Terms commonly used to describe the symptoms and sensations of Depersonalisation:
- unreal
- disembodied
- divorced from oneself
- apart from everything
- unattached
- alone
- strange
- weird
- foreign
- unfamiliar
- dead
- puppet-like
- robot-like
- acting a part
- 'like a lifeless
- two dimensional
- 'cardboard' figure
- made of cotton-wool
- having mechanical actions
- remote
- automated
- a spectator
- witnessing ones own actions as if in a film or on a TV program
- not doing one's own thinking
- observing the flow of ideas in the mind as independent.
Derealisation
- Derealisation
A change in an individual's experience of the environment, where the world around him/her feels unreal and unfamiliar.
Terms commonly used to describe the symptoms and sensations of derealisation:
- spaciness
- like looking through a gray veil
- a sensory fog
- spaced-out
- being trapped in a glass bell jar
- in a goldfish bowl
- behind glass
- in a Disney-world dream state
- withdrawn
- feeling cut off or distant from the immediate surroundings
- like being a spectator at some strange and meaningless game
- objects appear diminished in size
- flat
- dream-like
- cartoon-like
- artificial; objects appear to be unsolid, to breathe, or to shimmer
- "as if my head were inside a Coke bottle and I'm viewing the world through the thick glass at the bottom"
Depersonalisation and Derealisation Treatment
Both of these conditions are directly caused by and are symptoms of anxiety. They are caused by changes which occur in the way nerve signals are processed by the brain during anxiety disorders.
Whilst they are harmless, they are also quite disturbing BUT can be eliminated very quickly using a method which addresses the cause of the anxiety imbalance at its root in the amygdala. Reduction of the 'benchmark' anxiety level WILL produce a lessening and elimination of depersonalisation and derealisation and their symptoms.
The Linden Method has treated tens of thousands of people, the vast majority of which experience either depersonalisation or derealisation at some time.
The Linden Centre is always available should you wish to discuss these, or any other, symptoms which concern you.
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