Editing Depersonalization (section)

== Description ==
Individuals who experience depersonalization feel divorced from their own personal self by sensing their body sensations, feelings, emotions, behaviors, etc. as not belonging to the same person or identity.<ref>{{cite web | last=Spiegel | first=David | title=Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder | website=MSD Manual Professional Edition | date=2023-05-03 | url=https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/dissociative-disorders/depersonalization-derealization-disorder | access-date=2025-03-06}}</ref> Often a person who has experienced depersonalization claims that things seem unreal or hazy. Also, a recognition of a [[self]] breaks down (hence the name). Depersonalization can result in very high [[anxiety]] levels, which further increase these perceptions.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hall-Flavin |first=Daniel |url=http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depersonalization/AN00595 |title=Depersonalization disorder: A feeling of being 'outside' your body |access-date=2007-09-08 |archive-date=2007-09-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111122/http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depersonalization/AN00595 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Depersonalization is a subjective experience of unreality in one's self, while [[derealization]] is unreality of the outside world. Although most authors currently regard depersonalization (personal/self) and derealization (reality/surroundings) as independent constructs, many do not want to separate derealization from depersonalization.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Radovic |first1=F. |last2=Radovic |first2=S. |year=2002 |title=Feelings of Unreality: A Conceptual and Phenomenological Analysis of the Language of Depersonalization |journal=[[Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology]] |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=271–9 |doi=10.1353/ppp.2003.0048 |s2cid=145074433}}</ref>