Like being trapped behind a pane of glass – depersonalisation, derealisation disorder explained

By Emma Černis, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Birmingham

“You’re going to think I’m crazy,” Callum said, looking down at his hands as he wrung them together in his lap. “It’s just that everything feels like a dream. I know I’m not dreaming – I mean – I think I’m really here, but at the same time I’m not sure. Everything feels off somehow.”

A deep sigh. “No one gets what I mean.”

The slim 18-year-old across from me looks defeated, dejected and thoroughly fed up. This is typical in my line of work. Not just because I’m a mental health professional, so I rarely get to meet people who are in the middle of the best time of their lives,…

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