“Self-Strangeness” — Navigating Depersonalization

Kai M
8 min readNov 5, 2019
Illustration by me

Do you feel distanced from your own life? Do emotions no longer resonate with you like they should? Does your waking life seem oddly dream-like? Do your thoughts and surroundings seem unrecognizable?

Well, I’m sorry to say but you might be suffering from one of the most elusive and misunderstood disorders of our time: Depersonalization/Derealization.

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