Noun: depersonalisation disorder
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: depersonalization disorder)
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: depersonalization disorder)
- Emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness
"During episodes of depersonalisation disorder, he felt detached from his own thoughts and body, as if observing himself from outside";
- depersonalization, depersonalisation [Brit], depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis, depersonalisation neurosis [Brit]
Type of: dissociative disorder
Encyclopedia: Depersonalisation disorder