Grant seeks therapy after having recurrent episodes of feeling "detached from himself" for several months, but he has not lost his self-awareness or memory. He notes that he feels like a robot, disconnected from his movements and actions. Grant is most likely suffering from __________.

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Grant's symptoms suggest that he is experiencing depersonalization/derealization disorder, as he is feeling detached from himself and his movements. This disorder involves feeling as if one is watching themselves from outside of their body, or as if the world around them is not real. Dissociative fugue involves amnesia and traveling away from home, conversion disorder involves physical symptoms with no underlying physical cause, and dissociative identity disorder involves multiple distinct identities.

Grant Seeks Therapy After Having Recurrent Episodes of Feeling "Detached