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Disordered: Anxiety Help

Disordered: Anxiety Help

Depersonalization and Derealization w/Dr. Claudia Hallett (Episode 177)

Oct 16, 2026 · 43m

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Send a question or comment via text message Depersonalization and derealization (DPDR) can feel like not recognizing yourself in the mirror, or like living behind a pane of glass. This week, clinical psychologist Dr. Claudia Hallett joins us. She leads a specialist DPDR clinic in London and works with this condition full time. We talk about why the experience is so hard to describe, and why that makes it fertile ground for catastrophic interpretation (“I’m losing my mind,” “I’ve broken my bra...