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Emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
Depersonalization disorder is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Depersonalization disorder, or a subtype of Depersonalization disorder,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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