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Noun: depersonalization neurosis
  1. 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 depersonalization neurosis, he felt detached from his own thoughts and body, as if observing himself from outside";
    - depersonalization, depersonalisation [Brit], depersonalization disorder, depersonalisation disorder [Brit], depersonalisation neurosis [Brit]

Derived forms: depersonalization neuroses

Type of: dissociative disorder