05/29/2025
Traumatized people.… feel separated from their bodies. One particularly good description of depersonalization comes from the German psychoanalyst Paul Schilder, writing in Berlin in 1928.
"To the depersonalized individual the world appears strange, peculiar, foreign, dream-like. Objects appear at times strangely diminished in size, at times flat. Sounds appear to come from a distance....
The emotions likewise undergo marked alteration. Patients complain that they are capable of experiencing neither pain nor pleasure.... They have become strangers to themselves."
From the book, “The Body Keeps the Score,” by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
If you are struggling with issues related to trauma, talk therapy may be an avenue to your healing.
