I have experienced the depersonalization after going through a trauma in 2004/2005 & there are times now when stress gets high or triggers from the trauma hit me that the depersonalization is what I experience.

First time it hit mildly was when I was staying at the hospital in the fold out chair next to my mother who was dying of cancer right after the major part of the trauma hit.....it was an erie feeling but the worst that I had a hard time shaking was several months after that when I was at the ranch feeding the horses. I was pulling apart the bales of hay for feeding & my trainer said something to me.....I remember hearing what she said & I remember a voice responding to her, & I remember it was like I was watching myself & hearing myself speak, but there was a disconnect between what I was hearing & what I was saying. All of a sudden, I got afraid to say anything because I didn't know how the brain that was figuring out what to say was connected to the voice that was answering........I ended up just shutting down.

Worst part was that my H was driving & he had to stop at the grocery store. I didn't want to sit outside in the car, but felt like I was so out of my body & watching what I was doing & walking through the grocery store isles, not really knowing where I was.....I should have stayed in the car, but I didn't understand what was going on with me until I later explained it to my pdoc & he said it was depersonalization.

It has hit me several times after that when a highly stressful situations. For me, those experiences are situational. It doesn't give me any but it's enough to relate to what you are going through.....it's important for people to understand what you are dealing. Knowledge & I have also found that teaching others about something, I learn even more myself