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What is identity? What is key to this sense? What does it link? What do dissociative disorders involve? What is the prevalence? What is the female:male ratio? What do most cases with it report? What does this suggest it might be? Who are particularly vulnerable to it? What else are they particularly vulnerable to? |
Sense of who we are and where we fit in our environment. Memory. Our past, present and future. Major disruption in memory. 1% 9:1 History of severe child abuse/trauma. An avoidance disorder. Combat soldiers. Amnesia and other dissociative disorders. |
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What is dissociative amnesia? What level is this on? What is it not? What else does it cause? What is dissociative fugue? What do they tend to do? What are they confused about? What do they sometimes display? What else is experienced? |
One or more episodes of inability to recall important personal information (explicit memory). Usually of a major traumatic or stressful nature that is too extreme/extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. Caused by brain injury, drugs, mental disorders. Significant stress or impairment. Sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one's customary place of work with an inability to recall their past. Flee to an entirely different location and start a new life. Personal identity or the assumption that they have a 'new' identity. New personality characteristics. Significant stress or impairment. |
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Depersonalisation disorder: What is this? What is observed? What is this meant to be triggered by? What else does it involve? Give an example. How have people reported feeling? What is it comorbid with? What is found to predispose it? |
Perception or experience of the self is disconcertingly and disruptively altered. Sudden loss of the self. Stress. Unusual sensory experience. The sense that limbs change drastically in size. Mechanical. Anxiety disorder and depression. Childhood trauma. |
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What is dissociative identity disorder also known as? What occurs in this disorder? What is there an inability to recall? What is often seen with? What appears most often? How do different sub-personalities differ? Evidence that this disorder is real? How does switching occur? How else can it be brought on? What's the female:male ratio? Name the famous case. |
Multiple personality disorder. Presence of 2 or more distinct identities or personality states. Personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. Significant stress and impairment. Primary personality. Abilities, taste, brain activity. Simply faking it cannot produce the variation in brain activity. Sudden and is triggered by a stressful event. Hypnosis. 3:1 Eve White, Eve Black and Jane 1957. |
