Talk:Depersonalization

Depersonalization

I find objectification to be a lousy synonym for one of the common senses of "depersonalization" as found in the professions of health care, policing, border control, armed combat, and armchair politics where the individuality of the patients, perpetrators, or politicians often needs to be set aside as a basic human coping mechanism.

Surgeons definitely "objectify" patients as they focus in on the surgical field, but this is far from objectifying the person as a whole, to the degree that I find the word "objectification" irritating and unproductive; in the prison system, it might be full-on objectification (while two wrongs don't make a right, a state-sanctioned crime against a criminal elicits a sweet, easy feeling in the likes of Joe Arpaio).

I really wish this page was titled Depersonalization (psychology) so that objectification could be positioned as an extreme end of a common scale, but I just don't see how that could work, as the accepted language ball lies. — MaxEnt 21:42, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

The description about depersonalisation seems to describe derealization: depersonalisation is more about distorted feelings of self, not surroundings. Feeling as if the world is distorted is actually derealization — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brightfoliage (talk • contribs) 19:36, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Depersonalization feelings after VR (Virtual Reality) use

Some VR users have reported feelings of depersonalization after stopping use of VR headsets, such as their hands feeling unreal, or LCD screens/displays being linked to various visual illusions, possibly related to depth perception. Perhaps this should be added in the future (I say in the future because I didn't find any sources other than Reddit posts, and I don't know if they're as good as articles on news websites).

Inspired by this comment.

See also, a handful of reddit posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

--Ciderpoem (talk) 08:58, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Likely AI-generated content

Hi- I added the AI generated tag here regarding this large content addition from 2024, much of which remains in the current version, as it contains several strong indications of possible LLM use and thus needs review for hallucinations, sourcing issues, synthesis/OR, and such. Gnomingstuff (talk) 20:35, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

I've done my best to remove all content from that diff that wasn't verifiable, and removed the LLM tag accordingly. If you wanted to give the article a once-over to make sure I didn't miss anything (and that I didn't leave a mess) that would be much appreciated. CamAnders (talk) 07:31, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Two of the same picture

I've noticed that there are two identical images (and identical descriptions) in the sections "Description" and "Treament". Wouldn't it be better to only keep one and delete the other? CoolestViki (talk) 21:15, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Well noticed! Done, MartinPoulter (talk) 23:03, 29 May 2026 (UTC)