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Depersonalization is a disorder that makes normal recognition of the self a distorted concept. From the word itself, (de-personalization), it entails symptoms of being removed from oneself. Awareness of self as the person's own becomes hazy and many actions of the self is not recognized by the person. Often, this phenomenon is described as "feeling as if one is in a dream". A person feels like he is observing his own self from a detached, third person perspective... This disorder is classified under the larger umbrella of dissociative disorders, where aspects of personality and reality become removed or distorted. In a normal person, the recognition of self is intact and all actions are attributed to the self. In depersonalization and other dissociation type of disorders, this recognition of the self blurs and gives rise to the different symptoms that we see... What is DEPERSONALIZATION, DEPERSONALIZATION, The causes of depersonalization