Question

Describe some of the identifying symptoms of different types of dissociative disorders.

Answer 1

Types of Dissociative Disorders:

1. Dissociative Amnesia:
   • unable to tell, important, personal information is often related to a stressful and traumatic report; the extent of forgetting beyond normal is associated with overwhelming stress.
   • Dissociative fugue traveling away from a stressful environment, assumption of a new identity, and the inability to recall the previous identity. when fugue ends no recall of fugue state
2. Dissociative Identity Disorder:
   • A person assumes alternate personalities that are contrasting from each other and may or may not be aware of each other.
   • associated with traumatic experiences (physical abuse) in childhood.
3. Depersonalization
   • a dreamlike state in which the person has a sense of being separated both from self and from reality.
   • a change of self-perception.