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Dissociative1
Question | Answer |
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Depersonalization (1) | only dissociative disorder that does not involve disruptions in memory. no tx known. |
dissociative disorder | involve disruptions in memory, consciousness,or identity. develop in response to extreme stressors and serve to relieve the individual of some of the anxiety associated with the stressors. exagerated version of a person in extreme shock- death of loved |
Mild dissociative experiences | experiences are common to everyone-it is the splitting off of conciousness as when driving a car home, we can shift our attention |
more extreme dissociative experiences | shifting of attentional focus becomes increasingly hard |
severe dissociative experiences | there is inability to shift focus or there is discontinuity of focus such that we cannot access memories regarding a previous focus. |
dissociative fugue | more extreme version of amnesia in which the individual forgets his or her identity, travels away from home,assumes a new identity. last short duration, full memory returns following episode,loss of memory for events that occured during the fugue state |
dissociative identity disorder (DID)-multiple personality disorder | multiple identities in a single individual. each identity has distinct cognitive, emotional and benavioral characteristics. |
behavior of person with dissociative identity disorder | person may change from one identity to another in a matter of seconds, often in reaction to stress. connected to severe trauma as a child. to escape from emotionally difficult situation the person self-hypnotize, becomes a different person. |
Depersonalization(2) | may experience a change in sense of reality or sense of self. feel as if they are in a dream. this is common in adolescence or if under influence of hallucinogenic substances. no tx know |