1.7. Acute Stress Disorder (Dissociative Behavior)

Question 1

A dissociative response develops following the experience of a traumatic situation

Answer 1

Acute Stress Disorder

Question 2

The person has a sense that the event was unreal, thinks he or she is unreal, and forgets some aspects of the event through amnesia, emotional detachment, and muddled obliviousness to the environment

Answer 2

Acute Stress Disorder

Question 3

Blocks off part of his or her life from consciousness during periods of intolerable stress

Answer 3

Acute Stress Disorder

Question 4

Stressful emotion becomes a separate identity, as the individual “splits” from it and mentally drifts into a fantasy state

Answer 4

Acute Stress Disorder

Question 5

Loss of memory for threatening or anxiety-producing events with no biological cause, cannot be explained by ordinary forgetfulness

Answer 5

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 6

Disorder in which the person forgets identity and wanders far from home, may take or new identity, may later regain memory of original identity but have no memory of fugue experience

Answer 6

Dissociative Fugue

Question 7

Disorder in which two or more identities exist within the same person

Answer 7

Dissociative Identity Disorder (fka Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD)

Question 8

A persistent or recurring feeling of being detached from their mental processes or body

Answer 8

Depersonalization

Question 9

Sensation of being in a dream-like state in which the environment seems foggy or unreal

Answer 9

Derealization