The Three Types Of Dissociative Amnesia

Have you ever wanted to escape reality? Most people do this via hobbies: being taken away by a good fiction book, video games: creating your own avatar or acting as another character and recreational activities: sinking your head into a sport, or running of to Europe on a spontaneous vacation. Unfortunately 7% of the population unwillingly escape their own reality and suffer from a dissociative disorder at some time in their life. “Dissociative disorders are characterized by an involuntary escape from reality characterized by a disconnection between thoughts, identity, consciousness and memory” (Mental Health America). As mentioned before, escaping through hobbies, getting lost in a book, your favorite game, or even when a person is driving down a long road and realizes that they don’t remember the …show more content…
The National alliance on mental illness lists the symptoms as followed: significant memory loss of specific times and people, out-of-body experiences, such as feeling as though you are watching a movie of yourself, mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide, A sense of detachment from your emotions, or emotional numbness, A lack of a sense of self-identity. There are three types of dissociative disorders so the symptoms can vary. Dissociative Amnesia is one in which the main symptom is difficulty remembering vital information about one’s self or memories from a dark past. One type that is commonly known is dissociative identity disorder which was formerly known as multiple personality disorder and is characterized by alternating between multiple identities. A person may feel like one or more voices are trying to take control in their head. Another kind is Depersonalization disorder that involves consistent feelings of detachment from one self’s actions, feelings, and thoughts “as if they are watching a movie”