Dissociative disorders: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Every person periodically experiences states with loss of integration of memory, sensations, their own identity and self-awareness. For example, a person can go somewhere and suddenly realize that he does not remember many aspects of the trip because of concern with personal problems, a broadcast or a conversation with another passenger. Usually such states, related to dissociative, do not violate daily activity.
People with dissociative disorder can completely forget the time span, occupying minutes or hours, and feel the loss of this period from their life. Thus, dissociation violates the integrity of self-perception and memories of life events; With poor memory integration, dissociative amnesia is observed. When the personal identity is broken along with memory impairments, then we can talk about the presence of dissociative fugue or dissociative identity disorder. If self-perception and self-perception are violated, then there is a depersonalization disorder.
Dissociative disorders are usually associated with excessive stress. Such stress can be caused by a traumatic event or an intolerable internal conflict.
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