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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...

What is anxiety? Anxiety is a mental and physical state of anticipating doom. It is characterised psychologically by heightened arousal and apprehension that is tortured into distressing worry, and physically by unpleasant activation of several body systems, all of which are done to facilitate response to an unknown danger, whether it is real or imagined. Physical and mental symptoms like jitteriness and a racing heart are intended to make you feel uncomfortable, as is the cognitive feeling of dread in anticipation of some negative outcome. In order to get your attention and motivate you to take the necessary actions to safeguard the things you value, anxiety is used. Periodic anxiety attacks are normal and even beneficial. We humans pay anxiety as a price for having the capacity to envision the future. When anxiety become a disorder? An anxiety disorder, however, is characterised by persistent, pervasive, or excessive anxiety that interferes with daily activities at home, ...