How to Use depersonalization in a Sentence

depersonalization

noun
  • Michels said depersonalization or feeling as if one is in a video game is common.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The depersonalization scores were largely the same across all three groups.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • People who experience depersonalization can feel as though they are detached from their mind or body.
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Giving up four hours of depersonalization for 160 hours of feeling like myself is worth it, to me.
    — Nylah Burton, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The piece is a protest against depersonalization, and indeed mortality itself, that pulses with life.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2021
  • There’s also a depersonalization process, during which photos and some furniture might be taken down.
    — Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The end clients experience the depersonalization of the acquiring firm.
    — John Pierce, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • Sterns’ mind-control techniques embody the grand depersonalization of AI (hence the film’s subtitle).
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
  • For Kusama, the depersonalization experienced in these rooms has a moral significance.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • This isn’t a necessarily a bad thing if that data is being used to make communication easier and faster, but there are questions about the depersonalization that might result.
    — Madeline Buxton, refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
  • In both films, the effect is of a diminution, a depersonalization—not to say, a desecration of the experience of horror that the documentary element embodies.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Researchers have hypothesized that depersonalization/derealization might be part of the mind’s defense system.
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Derealization and depersonalization refer to feelings that the external world and your own self, respectively, are unreal.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 14 June 2022
  • The symptoms that social media users are describing might overlap with seasonal affective disorder, depersonalization or the long-term effects of past trauma, Fisher said.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Striking the right balance Critics may express concerns about the potential depersonalization of financial advice with the increasing role of AI.
    — Bob Rubin, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Burnout — the exhaustion (physical, mental and emotional) caused by workplace stress that leads to disengagement and depersonalization — contributes to moral suffering/distress among nurses and health care providers.
    — Lauren Ghazal, CNN, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Complicating matters, depersonalization also crops up frequently as a symptom of common mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.
    — Ruth Davis Konigsberg, Marie Claire, 10 Feb. 2016
  • People with dissociative psychiatric conditions such as derealization or depersonalization syndrome report that their perceptual worlds, even their own selves, lack a sense of reality.
    — Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2019
  • People with dissociative psychiatric conditions such as derealization or depersonalization syndrome report that their perceptual worlds, even their own selves, lack a sense of reality.
    — Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2019
  • About 3 out of 4 adults in the United States will experience a depersonalization episode once in their lives, but only 2% of them will develop depersonalization disorder.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Health, 3 July 2024
  • For example, a 2010 study found that people were more likely to experience symptoms of depersonalization following a VR immersion.
    — Marta Ra, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Among the concerns, staff highlighted bureaucratic rules, high levels of office politics and unfair practices, in addition to emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a reduced feeling of personal accomplishment.
    — Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 23 June 2025
  • Symptoms of burnout include emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, lower self-evaluation (sense of personal accomplishment).
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 23 May 2020
  • Maslach defined burnout as a psychological syndrome involving emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a diminished sense of personal accomplishment for people working in challenging situations.
    — Denise Russo, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Niciu and colleagues report that acute experiences of 'depersonalization' in response to a dose of ketamine predicts the subsequent improvement in depression symptoms (HAMD17 score) after 7 days.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2018
  • The new paper uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study amnesia, along with various other dissociative experiences that are often said to occur in the wake of severe child abuse, such as feelings of unreality and depersonalization.
    — Joshua Kendall, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2021
  • While Liden’s displacement and depersonalization of private property in Unheimlich Manöver could be perceived as the inversion of Darboven’s cocooning, the artists share a preoccupation with the silent speech of objects and with language as a spatial entity.
    — Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and a diminished sense of personal accomplishment, can significantly impact the well-being and quality of care provided by HCPs.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • Frequently Asked Questions How is depersonalization different from depersonalization disorder?
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Health, 3 July 2024
  • Because depersonalization and derealization are so similar, some people with depersonalization disorder may also experience derealization disorder.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph, Health, 3 July 2024

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