Depersonalisation disorder: the condition you’ve never heard of that affects millions
by Howard Swains from on (#KDV2)
One in 50 of us are victims, left feeling like robots - and yet even doctors have to Google it. Now one sufferer is intent on helping millions out of their torment
Jane Charlton was not herself when she woke one day in April 2002, but it was more terrifying than any ordinary morning grogginess - and it did not shift for the best part of three years.
"It was a feeling of being fundamentally wrong in your own body," Charlton says, attempting to describe what has remained largely indescribable: the symptoms of depersonalisation disorder, the condition that swallowed a huge chunk of her life.
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