Dissociative Disorders

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Dissociative Disorders

• Depersonalization
• Lose sense of your own reality
• Derealization
• Lose sense of the external reality
• Dissociation
• Detachment or loss of integration between
  identity or reality and consciousness

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Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociative Amnesia
• Dissociative Fugue

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Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociative Identity Disorders

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Severe abuse during childhood
• Fantasy life is the only escape
• Practice becomes automatic
• and then involuntary

• High suggestibility
• a possible trait

• Similar etiology
• to posttraumatic
• stress disorder

• Biological vulnerability