Dissociative Disorders Flashcards
Your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality as if you were in a dream and you were watching yourself.
Depersonalization
Your sense of the reality of the external world is lost.
Derealization
What is the mean age of onset and course for depersonalization-derealization disorder?
16
Chronic
What are the disorders commonly found in individuals with depersonalization-derealization disorder?
Anxiety, mood, personality disorders
A pattern of dissociative amnesia. People who are unable to remember anything including who they are. It may be lifelong or may extend from a period in the more recent past such as 6 months or a year previously.
Generalized amnesia
A pattern of dissociative amnesia. It is a failure to recall specific events, usually traumatic that occur during a specific period.
Localized or Selective amnesia
A subtype of Dissociative amnesia. It means “flight’. Individuals just take off and later find themselves in a new place, unable to remember why they got there. A person sometimes assumes a new identity or atleast becomes confused about the old identity.
Dissociative Fugue
Dissociative amnesia usually occurs in what periof and until when?
Adulthood to old age.
What is the most prevalent of all the dissociative Disorders?
Dissociative amnesia
Individuals in this trancelike state often brutally assault and sometimes kills people or animals. Most people with this disorder are males.
Amok
“Running” syndrome in which an individual enters a trancelike state and suddenly imbued with a mysterious source of energy, runs or flees for a long time.
Running amok
Except for amok, the prevalence of running disorders is somewhat greater in _, as with the most dissociative disorders.
Women
What is the term native peoples of the Arctic use for running disorder?
Pivloktoq
The term the Navajo tribe use for running disorder.
Frenzy witchcraft
People that may adopt as many as 100 identities, all simultaneously coexisting, although average number is closer to 15. In some, identities are complete with its own behavior, tone of voice and physical gestures. But in some, only few characteristics are distinct because identities are only partially independent. Certain aspects of the person’s identity are dissociated. It also include amnesia and has a “host” identity.
Dissociative Identity Disorders
