Derealization (sometimes abbreviated as DR ) is a change in perception or experience of the outside world so it seems unreal. Other symptoms include feelings as if one's environment lacks spontaneity, emotional staining, and depth. This is a dissociative symptom of many conditions.
Derealization is a subjective experience of unreality of the outside world, while depersonalization is a sense of unreality in one's self, though most current writers do not regard derealization and depersonalization as separate constructs.
Chronic derealization may be caused by occipital-temporal dysfunction. These symptoms are common in the population, with a lifetime prevalence of up to 5% and 31-66% at the time of traumatic events.
Video Derealization
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The release of derealization can be described as an immaterial substance that separates a person from the outside world, such as sensory fog, glass panels, or veils. Individuals can report that what they see lacks clarity and emotional staining. Emotional responses to the visual recognition of loved ones can be significantly reduced. The feelings of dÃÆ' Â © jÃÆ'vu or jamais vu are common. Familiar places may look unfamiliar, strange, and unreal. A person may not be sure whether what he feels is actually a reality or not. The world as perceived by the individual may feel like he is experiencing a dolly zoom effect. Such perceptual abnormalities may also extend to the sense of hearing, taste, and smell. The level of familiarity one has with the environment is between the person's sensory and psychological identity, the basis of memory and history when experiencing a place. When a person is in a state of derealization, they block the foundation that identifies this from a recall. This "blocking effect" creates a discrepancy in the correlation between one's perception of one's surroundings during the episode of derealization, and what will be felt by the same individual in the absence of a derealization episode.
Often, derealization takes place in the context of persistent worries or "disturbing thoughts" that are difficult to remove. In such cases, it can build unnoticed along with the underlying anxiety attached to these disturbing thoughts, and only recognized as a result of the realization of a crisis, often a panic attack, which seems difficult or impossible to ignore. This type of anxiety can paralyze the affected and can lead to avoidant behavior. Those who experience this phenomenon may be concerned about the cause of their derealization. It is often difficult to accept that such disturbing symptoms are only the result of anxiety, and the individual may often think that the cause must be something more serious. This can, in turn, lead to more anxiety and worsen derealization. Derealization also affects the learning process. Because individuals almost see events as if they are third persons, they can not process information correctly.
People experiencing realization describe the feeling as if they were looking at the world through the TV screen. These, and other similar feelings present for derealization, can cause sensation of alienation and distance between people suffering from derealization and others around them.
Partial symptoms will also include feelings as "observers"/"observer effects" on the planet, with everything happening or experienced through their own eyes (similar to the first person's camera in the game).
Maps Derealization
Cause
Derealization may accompany the neurological conditions of epilepsy (especially temporal lobe epilepsy), migraine, and mild head injury. There is a similarity between visual hypo-emotionality, a diminished emotional response to the object being seen, and derealization. This suggests a disruption of the process in which perceptions become emotionally colored. Qualitative change in this perceptual experience can cause reports of anything being seen as unreal or separate.
Derealization can also manifest as an indirect result of certain vestibular disorders such as labyrinthitis. This is thought to be the result of experience of anxiety precipitated by functional differences arising between the ability to reconcile external stimuli relative to motion and equilibrioception compromised by vestibular dysfunction with internal perceptions and expectations about the physical environment. An alternative explanation suggests that the possible effects of vestibular dysfunction include responses in the form of modulation of noradrenergic and serotonergic activity due to the misattribution of vestibular symptoms in the presence of a physical hazard that will soon lead to anxiety or panic experience, which results in a feeling of re-realization.
Cannabis, psychedelic, dissociative, antidepressants, caffeine, nitric oxide, albuterol, and nicotine can produce a feeling that resembles derealization, especially when consumed in excess. This may be due to alcohol withdrawal or withdrawal of benzodiazepines. Opiate withdrawal may also lead to a feeling of realization.
Derealization can also be a symptom of severe sleep disorders and mental disorders such as depersonalization disorder, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, and anxiety disorder.
Interoceptive exposure can be used as a means to encourage derealization, as well as depersonalization of related phenomena.
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