Posted by Joslynn on December 1, 2003, at 22:10:16
In reply to Re: Derealization » crushedout, posted by Elle2021 on November 28, 2003, at 1:17:56
Oh my gosh, I have felt derealization but never knew it had a name! Thanks everyone for the info and web sites. On that web site Judy1 posted, one of the symptoms was that people feel like they are under glass, and I feel like that when I am in a major depression. I felt like I was in between two planes of glass.
Also, ordinary objects looked odd and foreign in a very strange and frightening way. I knew what they were and what they were for, yet they seemed like displaced artifacts from some other time or planet. I would stare at something like a faucet and it would look so foreign.
When I was depressed I also felt like either I was on an alien planet or like I was on a familiar planet but everyone else was an alien. I didn't literally believe I was an alien, but that's how I felt.
Wow, I didn't know there was a word for that feeling. It went away for me when the depression started to lift, thank God.
But I feel better knowing that the feeling (or lack thereof) has a name and others have experienced it.
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