You feel it begin. It starts with a faint flutter in your heart, then a sinking feeling in your stomach. The taste of metal appears on your tongue and you know what’s coming. You try and fight it, you tell yourself over and over that you’re fine but the more you try to convince yourself the worse it becomes. All of a sudden the world is two dimensional, people around you seem louder and the place you are in seems to instantaneously shrink and you can literally feel the walls closing in on you. There’s a lump in your throat and you look down at your hands and suddenly they do not belong to you anymore. It’s as if everything around you is foreign even though five seconds ago it was familiar. You’re terrified to speak because you are unsure of what words will come out of your mouth and it’s as if you have no control over your body. You can’t quite remember what you were just talking about so you’re afraid to speak. All these things are happening in your head and your praying that the people around you didn’t notice the shift.
This, is Derealization Disorder.