Open AccessDEPERSONALIZATION/DEREALIZATION DISORDER: JENNIFER’S RECOVERY STORY
Author(s) -
Jennifer Jones,
Sam Abraham
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of research - granthaalayah
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-3629
pISSN - 2350-0530
DOI - 10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i5.2019.825
Subject(s) - derealization , depersonalization , psychology , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , psychotherapist , medicine , clinical psychology , burnout , emotional exhaustion
Depersonalization/derealization disorder is not commonly known. A nursing student experienced depersonalization/derealization attack just as she was taking her pharmacology examination at the end of the first year of nursing school. She was brought up in a supportive family. She reports no history of abuse or substance use. She succeeded well in high school and have had no serious panic episodes throughout her childhood and teen years. Jennifer tells the story of how on April 24th, 2017 her life changed.