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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 29 8:17am | Replies (6299)
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I have Epilepsy and depersonalization symptoms are not that uncommon. However Depersonalization Disorder is quite rare. To a certain extent a part of it (To me) is like Deja Vu which sometimes happens before or after a seizure where you feel as though your looking at a situation from the outside looking in. Instead of the experience being a new experience it’s kinda like your brain is in replay mode. I’m sorry, I know what’s its like but putting it into words is alluding me.
Although you you feel you are there, at the same time you feel detached from the situation and the feelings seem stronger yet unreal.
I remember some experiences where I should have felt a lot of emotion but I didn’t. To some degree it’s like a dream state.
Okay this isn’t going well. I just can’t spit it out.
Excellent question though, just hard for me to define.
Jake

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secretwhitepop | @secretwhitepop | May 4, 2019

I appreciate your response and I think I understand what you mean. I have something sometimes, but it’s not like I’m detached from myself, looking in, its different. It’s like suddenly whatever anyone is doing, I suddenly get the feeling (or actually know) that they don’t want to do it. (Hard to explain). Like I’ll be listening to the radio and suddenly I’ll hear it like (for example) Michael Jackson doesn’t really want to sing this song but he just has to so he can make his album. Like everything in the world is phony. It’s the weirdest thing! Like we are all puppets having to play a role. Maybe it actually is “depersonalization” and I come at it differently. But I definitely have felt something weird that I’ve tried to explain to people. Oh! Like the Truman Show. That movie!

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