What Is Depersonalization?
5. Observer
Patients with the condition will often feel as though the dimensions of their body have been distorted. For example, they might feel as though their arms and legs are shorter or longer than they are in reality. Some will also complain of a sensation that their head has been wrapped in cotton wool or similar.
Patients will also often experience sensations that they are outside of their own body looking in. It might feel as though they are floating above their own body looking down. They can feel as though their thoughts and feelings are not their own either. Rather, they feel as though they are observing somebody else’s thoughts and feelings.
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