I'm sorry if this thread is in the wrong section, but it seemed appropriate so I dunno.

I had a session yesterday and I described to him a state that I entered this week and he said that what I was describing was "depersonalization". I've been kind of shook by it because I'd never realized the severity of my episodes or how frequent they were until I really thought about it. It explained a lot about why I don't remember certain things that I've done and said and probably why I think that some things have been done or said when they haven't. I went into therapy feeling like I was losing touch with reality, but never really imagined that they'd tell me that I really was. Then I was a little concerned because we didn't really talk about how to deal with it.

So I guess my question to those of you who experienced this is, how do you feel when you're going through it? Why do you think it happens to you? How do you cope?