The Are You Depersonalized? Test

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2. Depersonalization disorder is defined as feelings of detachment or estrangement from one's own experience, body, or self. "All human actions are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure." - Jean-Paul Sartre
3. 1

   You're staring at a word (let's say, "WITH") for a long period of time. At first it seems perfectly normal, but after a few moments of intense staring, something's changed about it. With. W-i-t-h. Logically, you know this word and its meaning. WITH. At the same time, however, it appears merely as strange, foreign, individual symbols thrown together. Have you ever had this feeling, even for a brief moment?

   Yes.

   Somewhat.

   Not at all.

4. 2

   Can you relate to this statement? "I feel like I'm not alive - like I'm watching life through someone else's set of eyes, or a first person computer game. I consciously know that I am alive, yet at the same time I don't feel like I'm really breathing or in control of what I do from day to day. I am not really interacting with people but with machines."

   Yes.

   Somewhat.

   Not at all.

5. 3

   Can you relate to any of the following characters? Meursault from The Stranger by Albert Camus; Harry Haller ("Steppenwolf") from Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse; Gregor Samsa from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

   Yes, to a great degree.

   Yes, somewhat.

   No, not at all.

   I haven't read any of these books.

6. 4

   Does your own voice ever sound strange to you?

   Yes

   No

7. 5

   Do you have a constant obsession with your inner thoughts?

   Yes

   No

8. 6

   Do people who are close to you seem strange, or not the same as they once did? Does the world seem "unreal" to you? (Derealization)

   Yes

   No

9. 7

   Do you often feel as though you're on "auto-pilot", or are simply "going through the motions" rather than living in the moment?

   Yes

   No

10. "Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Finished!