PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6 & 7: Major Depressive Episode, Major Depressive Disorder, Mania
25 Aug 2016
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Derealization: sense of the reality of the external world is lost. Depersonalization: serious set of conditions where reality, experience and even our own identity seem to disintegrate. Depersonalization derealisation disorder: individual has repeated experiences of feeling detached from his or her own thoughts or body. Generalized amnesia: unable to remember anything, may be lifelong or may extend from a period in the most recent past. Localized or selective amnesia: failure to recall specific events, usually traumatic that occur during a specific period. Dissociative amnesia seldom appears before adolescence and usually occurs in adulthood: estimates of prevalence are from 1. 8-7. 3, dissociative amnesia is the most prevalent of all dissociative disorders. Average number of alter personalities is around 15, onset is almost always in childhood. Individuals who experience dissociative amnesia or a fugue state usually get better on their own and remember what they have forgotten.
