Dissociative disorders
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Dissociative disorders are defined as conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception. The hypothesis being that the symptoms can result, to the extent of interfering with a person's general functioning, when one or more of these functions is disrupted.
The four dissociative disorders listed in the DSM IV TR are as follows:
- Dissociative Amnesia - noticeable impairment of recall resulting from emotional trauma
- Depersonalization disorder - periods of detachment from self or surrounding which may be experienced as "unreal", lacking in control of or "outside of" self while retaining awareness that this is only a feeling and not a reality.
- Dissociative fugue - physical desertion familiar surroundings and experience of impaired recall of the past. This may lead to confusion about actual identity and the assumption of a new identity.
- Dissociative identity disorder - the alternation of two or more distinct personality states with impaired recall, among personality states, of important information.
[edit] See also
- Dissociation
- DID/MPD in fiction
- Depersonalization
- Healthy multiplicity
- Multiple personality controversy
[edit] External links
- Depersonalization Community – Support site for those suffering from dissociative disorders.
- DepersonalizationDisorder.net: Educational Resource and Support Site for those who suffer from Dissociative Disorders. Further Articles, Symptoms, In-Depth Diagnosis Criteria, Causes, and Treatment information can be found.
