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The inability to recall important autobiographical nature that is usually traumatic in nature or hard to forget. Can be associated with dissociative fugue.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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What is localized amnesia?

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Failing to recall event in a circumscribed time.

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What is selective amnesia?

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Recall some but not all of the events in a circumscribed time.

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What is generalized amnesia?

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Complete loss of memory for one’s personal identity. Can happen with both factual memory or procedural (well-learned) memory.

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What is systemized amnesia?

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Just forgetting one category of knowledge. AKA forgetting your entire family.

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What is continuous amnesia?

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Loss of memory as each new event occurs. Cannot make memories throughout the day.

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If a patient has experienced dissociative amnesia once before in their lifetime… will they get it again?

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Yes. Dissociative amnesia tends to reoccur in many patients.

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Is generalized amnesia sudden or gradual? What are some of the characteristics that patient displays?

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Sudden onset.

Patient may be unaware of amnesia. Not in any distress.

As amnesia remits … underlying PTSD may surface.

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What are some of your differential diagnoses when you see somebody with dissociative amnesia?

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Delirium and dementia
Memory loss 2ndary to trauma. 
seizure disorder
Transient global amnesia
Dissociative identity disorder
PTSD
substance use disorder
Malingering
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What is depersonalization d/o?

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Lasting or recurring feeling of being detached from one’s body.

Being an observer to one’s thoughts, feelings, and sensations.

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What is derealization d/o?

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Experiencing unreality or detachment from your surroundings.

People/objects are experienced as unreal, foggy, magical, lifeless, or visually distorted.

Microscopia / Macroscopia associated

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What are the characteristic features of Depersonalization/Derealization d/o?

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Patients are extremely distressed / think they’re going crazy.

Can be sudden or gradual. Can last hours to days.

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When do people usually get depersonalization/derealization d/o?

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Mean age of onset = 16 y/o

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What is a risk factor for depersonalization / derealization d/o?

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Emotional abuse / neglect.

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What is dissociative identity disorder?

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Disruption of identity often by two or more distinct personality states.

Sometimes described as possession.

Marked discontinuity between sense of self with alterations in cognition, behavior, affect, memory and perception.

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Are patients aware that they’ve switched personalities? What happens when patients switch personalities?

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Patients are often unaware that they’ve switched personalities. They will find clues from their other personalities around the house.

Recurrent amnesia / gaps in memory occur when personalities are switching.

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How is possession different from DID?

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Possession is usually manifest as some spirit taking over. It is not dissociative identity disorder but more cultural.

Possessions are accepted by the culture around them and are not distressed.

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What are patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder often misdiagnosed with?

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Schizophrenia or with a personality disorder.

They may also have a co-morbid PTSD.

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What are the risk factors for dissociative identity disorder?

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Trauma that is physical or sexual in nature.

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What is the differential diagnosis for dissociative identity disorder?

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Dissociative amnesia
Major depressive disorder
bipolar disorder
psychotic disorder
borderline personality d/o
malingering
complex partial seizures
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What is identity due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion?

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Brainwashing, cult, sects, and thought reform.

Over long periods of time of brainwashing you may dissociate from your old identity and assume a new one.

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What is acute dissociative reaction?

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Lasting less than a month under intense stress.

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What is dissociative trance?

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Complete loss of awareness of environment with stereotyped behavior and loss of consciousness.

*You need to be in a trance to fugue.

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What is a minor trance state?

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Hypnosis

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What is the treatment for dissociative disorders?

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Behavioral flooding (overwhelming somebody with stimulus of what they’re afraid of in hopes to reduce anxiety next time)
Positive reward therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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