Welcome to That Anxiety Guy, episode 17, anxiety and derealization. You're going to do. Hey everybody Drew here that anxiety guy.

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episode 17 of the podcast. It's actually part one of a two-part series that we're going to do on

dissociative states. This week we're going to talk about derealization. Next week we're going to talk about

depersonalization. I think it's worth spending two podcast episodes on this because the

dissociative states, derealization, depersonization are probably the most common yet least discussed anxiety symptoms.

They impact millions upon millions of people.

They may be collectively the hardest anxiety symptoms to fully accept and

not fear and to get past.

And for that reason, I definitely think it's worth discussing them a little bit more than

you usually find in a lot of other

places. So let's get started. Let's talk about dissociation in general and what that

means. Now if you Google for dissociative states or dissociative disorders.

I'm not going to lie, you're going to find some pretty scary stuff out there.

But let's break it down because you don't have to freak out.

Dissociative states are actually, there's a whole continuum of dissociative states. of

Deosative states. So let's start on the mildest possible side of the

continuum. Have you ever been sitting maybe at your desk at work or at school or

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