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The sensation of being detached from your surroundings may point to a hard-to-diagnose condition.<\/p>\n

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Barrie Miskin was newly pregnant when she noticed her appearance was changing. Dark patches bloomed on her skin like watercolor ink. A \u201cthicket\u201d of hairs sprouted on her upper lip and chin.<\/p>\n

The outside world was changing, too: In her neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, bright lights enveloped objects in a halo, blurring her vision. Co-workers and even her doctors started to seem like \u201calien proxies\u201d of themselves, Ms. Miskin, 46, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I was viewing the world through a pane of dirty glass,\u201d she added. Yet Ms. Miskin knew it was all an illusion, so she sought help.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It took more than a year of consulting with mental health specialists before Ms. Miskin finally found an explanation for her symptoms: She was diagnosed with a dissociative condition<\/a> called depersonalization\/derealization disorder, or D.D.D. Before her pregnancy, Ms. Miskin had stopped taking antidepressants. Her new psychiatrist said the symptoms could have been triggered by months of untreated depression that followed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While Ms. Miskin felt alone in her mystery illness, she wasn\u2019t. Tens of thousands<\/a> of posts<\/a> on social media<\/a> reference depersonalization or derealization<\/a>, with some likening the condition to \u201cliving in a movie or a dream\u201d or \u201cobserving the world through a fog.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sensation of being detached from your surroundings may point to a hard-to-diagnose condition.Barrie Miskin was newly pregnant when she noticed her appearance was changing. Dark patches bloomed on her skin like watercolor ink. A \u201cthicket\u201d of hairs sprouted on her upper lip and chin.The outside world was changing, too: In her neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, bright lights enveloped objects in a halo, blurring her vision. Co-workers and even her doctors started to seem like \u201calien proxies\u201d of themselves, Ms. Miskin, 46, said.\u201cI felt like I was viewing the world through a pane of dirty glass,\u201d she added. Yet Ms. Miskin knew it was all an illusion, so she sought help.It took more than a year of consulting with mental health specialists before Ms. Miskin finally found an explanation for her symptoms: She was diagnosed with a dissociative condition called depersonalization\/derealization disorder, or D.D.D. Before her pregnancy, Ms. Miskin had stopped taking antidepressants. Her new psychiatrist said the symptoms could have been triggered by months of untreated depression that followed.While Ms. Miskin felt alone in her mystery illness, she wasn\u2019t. Tens of thousands of posts on social media reference depersonalization or derealization, with some likening the condition to \u201cliving in a movie or a dream\u201d or \u201cobserving the world through a fog.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19638,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19639,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions\/19639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}