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Do you ever feel alienated, even when a part of you is aware of the fact that you really don’t have a reason to feel this way?Yes. People are generally hells of accepting, but sometimes they don't seem to notice you.
Do you sometimes feel that you cannot talk to anyone, not because you feel no one is hearing what you want to say but because you don’t trust your own ability to express what you are feeling?I don't feel that I can't talk to anyone, but I do sometimes feel that I'm really bad at conveying myself.
Do you experience a sort of fear that comes from a sense that you might discover that you are actually pretending to be something that you are not, and someday everyone is going to see you for what you really are, but you don’t know, right now, what that is?Not really. I worried something like that when I was younger, though.
Do you think a person can have a subtle awareness that they are losing touch with reality, see themselves becoming something they do not want to be but find that they are paralyzed or are otherwise incapable of changing course?
Again, I used to worry about this, but it never happened.
Good luck on your novel; it sounds intriguing.
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Marxists would use the term alienation. Sociologists might say the feelings are coming from a sort of anomie or refer you to Simmel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Simmel#Simmel_on_the_metropolis.
If you do google scholar searches along those lines you should find some clinical research. Dissociative disorders might be good too.
Non clinically, Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes about losing your mind in her short story: The Yellow Wallpaper and Camus writes about non-conformity to social norms in L'etranger.
Do you ever feel alienated, even when a part of you is aware of the fact that you really don’t have a reason to feel this way?
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It's called Mescaline? >It is< the only way to fly.
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Do you experience a sort of fear that comes from a sense that you might discover that you are actually pretending to be something that you are not, and someday everyone is going to see you for what you really are, but you don’t know, right now, what that is?
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It's called Impostor Syndrom
There are strategies to beat it.
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Do you think a person can have a subtle awareness that they are losing touch with reality, see themselves becoming something they do not want to be but find that they are paralyzed or are otherwise incapable of changing course?
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um... have you ever ready any of H.P. Lovecraft's works ? To answer your question, it is pretty much like that.
I recommend "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
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Can anyone help me find clinical research that is germane to the questions posted above? I’ve heard the term “Malaise” has been used to describe the feelings I am asking about, but is there another term that more accurately describes this sense of alienation
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Perhaps the feeling of alienation is true. Your person really, for real, is being alienated.
Check this out Dunning-Kruger effect
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I am writing a novel (the third one in a series of five books) and I am struggling with one of the characters. The answers to these questions might help me find a way to write this character. The first and second drafts of the novel still seem to be missing something specific about this character, so I am looking for help, and I would appreciate any comments about the subject.
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Pretend your character is Cecila Gimenez ?
I would start here.
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Do you sometimes feel that you cannot talk to anyone, not because you feel no one is hearing what you want to say but because you don’t trust your own ability to express what you are feeling?
I think they call this being male.
Do you ever feel alienated, even when a part of you is aware of the fact that you really don’t have a reason to feel this way?
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I'm pretty sure Heri' is not alone.
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I'm pretty sure Heri' is not alone.
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Oh, the ennui!