PSYC-105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Psychogenic Amnesia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue State
1 Oct 2018
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Dissociative disorders: less than 1% of the population will ever have dissociative disorders; very rare. Depersonalization: feeling like nothing is real, you"re in a movie/dream, view your body outside of yourself and don"t feel part of your own body. Derealization: the world around you doesn"t feel real: both of these experiences commonly occur when people have panic attacks. If you"re diagnosed with this, you can"t also have panic disorder: multiple episodes of depersonalization or derealization or both. In reality, when this is diagnosed, there is major concerns that the major event they remember didn"t actually occur, such as the child abuse stories. Dissociative fugue: dissociative amnesia, combined with fleeing the area: this builds off dissociative amnesia where you then leave the environment. This has been diagnosed for people in an accident who just disappear from the town and 5 years later they"re moved into somewhere far away and started a brand new life.
