Symptoms of depersonalization:

• Feelings that you're an outside observer of your thoughts, feelings, your body or parts of your body, e.g. as if you were floating in air above yourself
• Feeling like a robot or that you're not in control of your speech or movements
• The sense that your body, legs or arms appear distorted, enlarged or shrunken, or that your head is wrapped in cotton
• Emotional or physical numbness of your senses or responses to the world around you
• A sense that your memories lack emotion, and that they may or may not be your own memories

Symptoms of derealization:

• Feelings of being alienated from or unfamiliar with your surroundings, e.g. like you're living in a movie or a dream
• Feeling emotionally disconnected from people you care about, as if you were separated by a glass wall
• Surroundings that appear distorted, blurry, colorless, two-dimensional or artificial, or a heightened awareness and clarity of your surroundings
• Distortions in perception of time, such as recent events feeling like distant past
• Distortions of distance and the size and shape of objects

Criterion A. The presence of or recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealization, or both:

• Depersonalization: Experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions (e.g. perceptual alterations, distorted sense of time, unreal or absent self, emotional and/or physical numbing).
• Derealization: Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings (e.g. individuals or objects are experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, life less, or visually distorted).

Criterion B. During the depersonalization or derealization experiences, reality testing remains intact.

Criterion C. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

Criterion D. The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition.

Criterion E. The disturbance is not better explained by another mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, panic disorder, major depressive disorder, acute stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or another dissociative disorder.