depersonalize
psychology specialized
a condition in which someone's thoughts or experiences do not feel like they are their own :
In both groups of patients, there were bouts of fear, depersonalization, and distortions of perception.
When pain becomes very severe, the mind can enter what is known as a "dissociative state", characterized by depersonalisation.
The bureaucratic model by definition embodies depersonalization.
The reader feels complicit in the depersonalisation of the victims.

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Mental illnesses

Examples of depersonalization

depersonalization
Patients meeting criteria for anxiety disorders were excluded where depersonalization was found to be circumscribed to panic attacks or other episodes of intense anxiety.
This finding is in keeping with long-held and currently neglected views that depersonalization constitutes a syndrome, rather than a symptom.
The mean age of onset of depersonalization was 20 10.2 years, and the mean duration of the condition was 13 12.4 years.
Finally, depersonalization refers to experiencing events as if you were a third party observer, disconnected from your body or feelings.
The relationship between scores on the emotional exhaustion or personal accomplishment subscales and the depersonalization subscale was not statistically significant (r = 0.0085).
Symptoms of depersonalization belong to distinct but related psychopathological domains.
However, unlike the case in depression, such complaints are mainly subjective in depersonalization with the behavioural expression of emotions seeming normal (see above).
This is part of the pattern of depersonalization and diminishing the ego.
Violence, deprivation and depersonalization, he concluded, characterize these autobiographical accounts.
Perceived parenting styles, depersonalization, anxiety and coping behaviors in adolescents.
Do composers successfully represent human beings as creative and autonomous individuals while simultaneously introducing technological images of dominance and depersonalization?
An understanding of depersonalization in terms of different interacting dimensions is likely to have implications for both clinical practice and research.
Typically, patients are referred on account of severe and chronic depersonalization.
The results of this study suggest that rather than being a unidimensional construct, ' depersonalization ' represents the expression of several distinct underlying dimensions.
Different classifications have been proposed to account for this phenomenological complexity of depersonalization.
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