someone commented “there’s a word for this??” on a video abt derealization and a reply to that comment was “yeah look in the dsm but make sure to speak to a professional don’t self diagnose based on a video” and i don’t get why they replied that bc derealization isn’t a disorder?? it’s like how anxiety or sadness aren’t disorders until it gets to a (1/2)
certain severity, like yeah if you’re derealized or anxious very often and/or to the extent that it interferes with your daily life then yeah maybe you should get help for that but it’s normal on occasion and that person was probably just like woah i didn’t know it was called that,?
