Ned seeks therapy after having recurrent episodes of feeling "outside himself" for several months. He reports chronically feeling groggy, dizzy, and preoccupied, and his friends have recently labeled him "space cadet, first class." He notes that his interactions with others seem mechanical and dreamlike. He is most likely suffering from ________.

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Ned's symptoms of feeling detached from himself and his surroundings, as well as his interactions feeling mechanical and dreamlike, are consistent with depersonalization disorder. Dissociative fugue and dissociative identity disorder involve more severe disruptions in a person's sense of identity and memory. Conversion disorder involves physical symptoms that cannot be explained by a medical condition, which is not mentioned in the case of Ned.

Ned Seeks Therapy After Having Recurrent Episodes of Feeling "Outside