PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Comorbidity, Psy
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Vague, bizarre, inconsistent descriptions of symptoms by patients: inconsistences. Meds alone, therapy alone, do not help. Many who suffer resist the idea of treatment from a mental health professional these are associated with problematic illness behaviors and significant cognitive factors. Feeling as though you"re two different people. Feeling as though your body isn"t your own: many are temporary. Dissociative amnesia inability to remember important personal details and experiences that are associated with traumatic or very stressful events. Can be diagnosed with a specifier of dissociative fugue: during which they travel or wonder without knowing identity, with therapy can be recovered, often is not. Suddenly pickup and move to a new place, assume new identity, and have no memory of previous identity. May behave normal in new life than suddenly may return to old life as if nothing happened: c ase example: jody robert.
