[Alishia88]

I think I do have derealisation (feeling like not really living in the world, not fully being right there as much as other people)
and I feel like this is making me feel like I cannot control myself, I have no power over my own actions, it´s like someoneelse does things for me. Like I`m a doll or something.

Is this usual? Does it feel like that to others?

I´d really like to know, thanks!

[IowaFarmGal]

I have felt like I was watching someone else live my life sometimes. That doesn't sound quite like what you mean though. I'm not as spacy as I used to be.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Alishia88

I think I do have derealisation (feeling like not really living in the world, not fully being right there as much as other people)
and I feel like this is making me feel like I cannot control myself, I have no power over my own actions, it´s like someoneelse does things for me. Like I`m a doll or something.

Is this usual? Does it feel like that to others?

I´d really like to know, thanks!

if you were here where I live and work (NY, in the USA) no this isnt unusual.

Here wher I live and work we describe derealization as the person feels real the surroundings and othe rpeople do not feel real...examples of this would be my feeling my dog was not real, feeling my wife wasnt real, feeling my home wasnt real....the world outside having unreal qualities to it.

here where I live and work we call it depersonalization when it is the person not the surroundings that doesnt feel real.. examples would be I feel numb, not altogether focused, feeling like Im not real, Im just going through the motions but not feeling anything..

here in NY in the USA the dissociative disorder I had where I was not in control, someone else was in control was called DID Dissociative Identity Disorder which was different than depersonalization and derealization symptoms for me.

you can read more about dissociative disorders here

http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision...on.aspx?rid=58

[Alishia88]

I meant usual if you suffer from derealisation. I do not think at all that this is usual for a healthy person, because I remember feeling very different about it before my father died.

I could only read about depersonalisation/derealisation on that side you posted, so i googled the dissociative identity disorder.

"Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states (one can be the host) or an experience of possession, as evidenced by discontinuities in sense of self, cognition, behavior, affect, perceptions, and/or memories. This disruption may be observed by others, or reported by the patient."

This is not what I mean. I mean, yes, i know that "i" do things, but yet, it´s like, it´s just out of habit, i don´t feel like i can really change anything, like i have power....

urg hard to explain

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Alishia88

I meant usual if you suffer from derealisation. I do not think at all that this is usual for a healthy person, because I remember feeling very different about it before my father died.

I could only read about depersonalisation/derealisation on that side you posted, so i googled the dissociative identity disorder.

"Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states (one can be the host) or an experience of possession, as evidenced by discontinuities in sense of self, cognition, behavior, affect, perceptions, and/or memories. This disruption may be observed by others, or reported by the patient."

This is not what I mean. I mean, yes, i know that "i" do things, but yet, it´s like, it´s just out of habit, i don´t feel like i can really change anything, like i have power....

urg hard to explain

If you mean is is "normal" for people to feel the way you do, yes. one thing you need to know about dissociation and all the dissociation disorders..

all forms of dissociation has "normal" with in them... dissociation is a normal thing the brain does to help completely normal people deal with things like stress, trauma, life.

example my wife does not have any dissociative disorders.. last week she had a particularly stressful family situation going on. many times through out the week she stated she felt like she wasnt all there, like she wasnt her usual self, like she was outside her body watching things unfold, like she was a back seat driver watching and waiting and her body was going through the motions as if she was a puppet and a puppeteer was pulling the strings.

another example of normal derealization is medication reactions...many medications can make a completely normal person feel dissociative symptoms like those you are having, they dont have any dissociative disorders tits just their usual reaction to medications..

All mental disorders have the completely normal (Usual/ typical) elements/symptoms and they also the abnormal (unusal/not so usual/ not typical/abnormal) symptoms.

What makes them usual/normal/typical or unusual/not normal/not typical/ abnormal is each persons own ways in which the mental disorder presents itself. only your treatment providers can say what is usual(normal/typical) for you and what isnt based upon your own individual reactions to stress, trauma, life, medications.....

Again for some people it is normal/ usual, how you are feeling for others it isnt normal or usual.

to read any of the mental disorders on that website where the link I posted was you go to the top of the page and scroll over "proposed revisions" a drop box will show a list of all the mental disorders that the USA treats, you click on the one you are looking for and the next page gives you are page on the revisions, severty scale that is being proposed and the DSM IV tab which shows what the present diagnostic criteria is for that mental disorder.

here is the listing on dissociative disorders
http://www.dsm5.org/proposedrevision...Disorders.aspx