![I was terrified when my mind detached from my body – this is depersonalisation | Hannah Ewens | The Guardian I was terrified when my mind detached from my body – this is depersonalisation | Hannah Ewens | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7ad96ec7973f27b69496d71a651b43974610fbc6/0_0_5491_3295/master/5491.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=2624aff318c4d61b35b5bd9e968f33fe)
I was terrified when my mind detached from my body – this is depersonalisation | Hannah Ewens | The Guardian
![I feel like my body isn't my body. Like I don't belong in it. I'm in a wrong body. This feeling is always bothering me. I'm not so happy with my body. I feel like my body isn't my body. Like I don't belong in it. I'm in a wrong body. This feeling is always bothering me. I'm not so happy with my body.](https://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/050aaf0e092fa4590884cfef4dbf1a2791f611.jpg?v=3)
I feel like my body isn't my body. Like I don't belong in it. I'm in a wrong body. This feeling is always bothering me. I'm not so happy with my body.
Why do I sometimes feel my soul leaving my body? I'll just be sitting down and then for 2 seconds I feel like I'm not me, and then I'm back to normal. -
![I often feel like I'm being strangled, like I am stuck in my body just watching over myself' - Leicestershire Press I often feel like I'm being strangled, like I am stuck in my body just watching over myself' - Leicestershire Press](https://i0.wp.com/leicestershirepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/abby-pic.jpg?resize=610%2C952&ssl=1)
I often feel like I'm being strangled, like I am stuck in my body just watching over myself' - Leicestershire Press
![Sometimes my anxiety and insecurity gets so bad I feel crazy, like I'm losing touch with reality and humanity. I dont know what my body looks like, other people become distorted and Sometimes my anxiety and insecurity gets so bad I feel crazy, like I'm losing touch with reality and humanity. I dont know what my body looks like, other people become distorted and](https://preview.redd.it/d1igx3ajrf931.jpg?auto=webp&s=783b0863cb8429501760f598e790ecb3fbe178d7)