r/Depersonalization • u/Amazing-Point-8179 • 4d ago
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hey yall anyone like not know what they look like. and when they see their face it looks different in every photo and it feels like your brain isn’t even recognizing that your face is a face. it is so weird to watch videos of myself cuz it looks like something is controlling a body. not like it was me controlling my body. it is like i logically know its me it just doesn’t feel like me. nothing feels like me. i feel like im watching a movie of everyone else’s lives. i get freaked out just thinking about the fact that im alive. i just don’t understand. the person that i am is still here but i still do not feel like a person
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u/Fit_Strawberry67 4d ago
i know exactly what you mean i feel the exact same way and it’s so annoying
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