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-Refers to the human mind's capacity to mediate mental activity independence of conscious awareness
-Characterized by disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity, and/or perception
-Appear to be ways of avoiding anxiety and stress and of managing life problems that threaten to overwhelm a person's coping resources.
-Avoid by escaping from his or her own autobiographical memory, or personal identity. |
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| Characterized by persistent and recurrent episode of feeling detached from one's mental processes or body |
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| Loss of sense of self and one's own reality |
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| Loss of sense of the reality of the outside world |
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| DSM-IV TR for Depersonalization Disorder |
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-Persistent/recurrent feelings of detachment from one's own body/mind
-Intact reality testing
-Clinically significant distress, impairment
-Does not occur exclusively during the course of another mental disorder |
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| Prevalence for Depersonalization Disorder |
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Course: Chronic
Comorbidity: Anxiety, mood disorders, PDs - avoidant, borderline, obsessive-compulsive |
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| Characterized by an inability to recall previously stored personal information that cannot be accounted for by ordinary forgetting |
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| Partial or total inability to recall or identify previously acquired information or past experiences |
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| Partial or total inability to retain new information |
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-One or more episodes of inability to recall important personal information to extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness
-Distress or impairment
-Does not occur exclusively during the course of dissociative disorder, PTSD, or somatization disorder, and not due to a medical condition or substance use |
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-Form of retrograde amnesia
Affects episodic or autobiographical memory
Localized and selective types |
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| Prevalence for Dissociative Amnesia |
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Course: usually last between a few days and a few years. Can happen only once, or may happen to someone multiple times throughout life
-Comorbidity: Anxiety, mood disorders |
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| Characterized by sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one's customary place of work, accompanied by an inability to recall one's past and confusion about personal identity or the assumption of a new identity |
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| DSM-IV TR for Dissociative Fugue |
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-Sudden, unexpected travel away from home/work, accompanied by inability to recall past
-Confusion about personal identity or assumption of new identity
-Distress or impairment |
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| Prevalence for Dissociative Fugue |
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Course: Single episodes that last hours to months
Comorbidity: anxiety, mood disorders? |
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| Dissociative Amnesia and Fugue |
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Both disorders: Seem to be triggered by extreme stress that overwhelms one's coping resources.
Unconsciously avoiding some unpleasant situation by forgetting it |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| Characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the individual's behavior and difficulty recalling personal information |
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| DSM-IV TR for Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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-Presence of 2 or more distinct identities
-At least 2 of the identities take control of the person's behavior
-Inability to recall personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness
-Not due to substance use or general medical condition |
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| Most often in control and carries the person's real name however often not the person's original identity |
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-Only 2 identities required for diagnoses, but DSM reports that about half of cases have more than 10 identities
-Reflect a failure to integrate various aspects of a person's identity, consciousness, and memory
-The person doesn't have one whole personality or identity |
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| DID - Personality/Identities |
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-Each identity has own patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about self and environment
-May have different personal histories, self-image, and name
-Common to see a child or opposite sex identity
-Alter identities take control at different times, and the switch can be quick
-Gaps in memories between identities |
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Course: Chronic and recurrent
Comorbidity: Depressive disorders, PTSD, substance use disorders, borderline PDars |
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