Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the SelfOxford University Press, 2006 - 242 pages "Everything feels unreal to me, like a dream...I feel detached, like a stranger to myself." These are quotes from actual people, experiencing something they don't understand. What they are saying is being heard by friends, families, and physicians today more than ever before. They do not simply suffer from anxiety, or depression, and they are not schizophrenic. They have found themselves trapped in a very real and singular disorder, yet few even know its name. Their enigmatic state of mind has been studied for more than 100 years, but only recently has it become clear how prevalent and how distinctive it really is. The condition is called Depersonalization Disorder, and Feeling Unreal is the first book to reveal what it's all about. This important volume explores not only Depersonalization, but the philosophical and literary implications of selflessness as well, while providing the latest research, possible treatments, and ways to live and thrive when life seems "unreal." For those who still believe that such experiences are merely part of something else, that depersonalization is just a symptom and not a disorder in its own right, Feeling Unreal presents compelling evidence to the contrary. This book provides long-awaited answers for people suffering from Depersonalization Disorder and their loved ones, for mental health professionals, and for all students of the condition, while serving as a wake up call to the medical community at large. |
Table des matières
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The Biology of Depersonalization | 105 |
The Blow of the Void | 127 |
Medication Treatment of Depersonalization | 159 |
Psychotherapy Treatment of Depersonalization | 171 |
Living Unreal | 201 |
Frequently Asked Questions | 207 |
Notes | 219 |
Index | 233 |
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Fréquemment cités
Page 55 - Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination with each other THAT SHAPE AM I, I felt, potentially. Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate, if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him.
Page 137 - So I was in the park just now. The roots of the chestnut tree were sunk in the ground just under my bench. I couldn't remember it was a root any more. The words had vanished and with them the significance of things, their methods of use, and the feeble points of reference which men have traced on their surface. I was sitting, stooping forward, head bowed, alone in front of this black, knotty mass, entirely beastly, which frightened me.
Page 137 - Things are divorced from their names. They are there, grotesque, headstrong, gigantic 37' and it seems ridiculous to call them seats or say anything at all about them: I am in the midst of things, nameless things.
Page 55 - ... it was as if something hitherto solid within my breast gave way entirely, and I became a mass of quivering fear. After this the universe was changed for me altogether. I awoke morning after morning with a horrible dread at the pit of my stomach, and with a sense of the insecurity of life that I never knew before, and that I have never felt since.
Page 137 - I can't say I feel relieved or satisfied ; just the opposite, I am crushed. Only my goal is reached : I know what I wanted to know ; I have understood all that has happened to me since January. The Nausea has not left me and I don't believe it will leave me so soon ; but I no longer have to bear it, it is no longer an illness or a passing fit : it is I.
Page 138 - MOTHER DIED TODAY. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. Which leaves the matter doubtful; it could have been yesterday.
Page 55 - I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human.
Page 127 - We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
Page 127 - If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro