Psych- Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative Disorders -One basic personality -Lost the sense of having one consciousness

Dissociation- self-defense against trauma.

dissociative amnesia 

Inability to remember information, usually related to a stressful or traumatic event.

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Dissociative phenomena limited to amnesia.

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Patient is completely intact and function coherently.

dissociative fugue 

Sudden and unexpected travel away from home or work

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Inability to recall the past

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With confusion about personal identity or with adoption of a new identity

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Old and new identities do not alternate

dissociative identity disorder 

Most severe and chronic

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Multiple personality disorder

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Typically involves a traumatic event, usually childhood physical or sexual abuse

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Two or more distinct personalities

depersonalization disorder 

Recurrent or persistent feelings of detachment from the body or mind.

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Mechanical, in a dream, detached from their bodies

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Patients realize the unreality of the symptoms