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DEPERSONALIZATION DISORDER Two kinds of dissociative symptoms are derealization and depersonalization. They sometimes occur during panic attacks.Derealization-one's sense of the reality of the outside world is temporarily los. Depersonalization-one's sense of one's own self and one's own reality is temporarily lost. In this disorder, people have persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from (and like an outside observer of) their own bodies and mental processes. They may even feel they are, for a time, floating above their physical bodies. which may suddenly feel very different-as if drastically changed or unreal. During periods of depersonalization, unlike during psychotic states, reality testing remains intact. The related experience of derealization, in which the external world is perceived as strange and new in various ways, may also occur. Comorbidity : anxiety and mood disorders as well as avoidant, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive p...