PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Dissociative Disorder
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Rare, bewildering disorders: they are not common so there is not much research about them or their treatments, nevertheless, dissociative thinking is common. Quite often we have absent mindedness, have out of body experiences: dissociative disorders are not dissociative thinking but disorders of consciousness. The dissociation is often a response to some serious psychological abuse. Sudden lose in memory or change in identity in order to cope with painful memories and experiences. They forget who they are and where they live. They do not lose procedural knowledge (skills) Fugue states: more extensive lapses in memory. Dissociative identity disorder: extremely rare disorder where a person displays two or more alternating personalities which take turns controlling the person, each personality is unique. Reaction to medicine: the central personality (original personality) is often completely unaware of the existence of the other personalities. The alter-egos have complete knowledge of the others and of the central personality: did facts.