Nathan Dunne was living the life of his dreams in London until, one evening, he jumped into a lake for a swim. When he emerged, his identity was simply gone. He felt completely lost and in acute, inexplicable pain. He knew who he was supposed to be but had no connection to the person named Nathan. His memories were distant and separate, not his. Everything was unfamiliar. All he felt was terror.
This was the beginning of his experience with depersonalisation, a little-understood and on-the-rise mystery mental illness that causes a person to dissociate from their body and thoughts.
In this intriguing episode of Gleetalks, Dunne talks to author and researcher Dr Rebecca Huntley about his sometimes fraught but always inspiring journey back to himself in his book When Nothing Feels Real: A journey into the mystery illness of depersonalisation.
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