Nathan Dunne, after a spontaneous midnight swim with his girlfriend, experienced a dramatic transformation into a state of despair due to depersonalisation disorder. This disorder, affecting many, left him feeling detached from reality and himself. Over three years, he sought a diagnosis amid significant healthcare delays. As awareness grew, including advocacy in parliament, Dunne has now written a book recounting his journey into this lesser-known condition, hoping to shed light on its challenges and stigma, after living for seventeen years with its aftermath.
'It was like being struck. Like something came down, slicing the air with his hand. The flip of a switch.' Dunne’s life transformed from joy to agony in an instant.
'Dunne three-and-a-half years to learn that what he had experienced was the onset of depersonalisation disorder, a dissociative disorder believed to affect about 1.3 million people in the UK.'
'The terror and panic were so great that the next day he smashed a vase and used a shard to cut himself. An attempt to not live any more.'
'In 2017 the MP Lyn Brown brought a constituent's experience of depersonalisation to the attention of parliament. A charity, Unreal, was launched two years later.'
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