The Question : What are dissociative disorders? Describe some of the identifying symptoms of different types of dissociative disorders.
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Dissociative Disorders: severance (divisions, separation) of the connections between ideas and emotions, feelings of unreality, estrangement, depersonalization, temporary alterations of consciousness and sometimes a loss or shift of identity. Types of Dissociative Disorders Dissociative Amnesia unable to tell important, personal information often related to a stressful and traumatic report; extent of forgetting beyond normal, associated with overwhelming stress Dissociative fugue- traveling away from a stressful environment, assumption of a new identity, and the inability to recall the previous identity, when fugue ends no recall of fugue state Dissociative Identity Disorder person assumes alternate personalities that are contrasting from each other, may or may not be aware of each other. associated with traumatic experiences (physical abuse) in childhood. Depersonalization a dreamlike state in which the person has a sense of being separated both from self and from reality a change of self-perception,
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