The Mind, Dissociative Disorders

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What type of dissociative disorder is described below?

Predominant Disturbance
The predominant disturbance is one or more episodes of inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary
forgetfulness.

Key Features
Retrospectively reported gaps in recall for aspects of the individual’s life history.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Describe the type of amnesia?

The individual fails to recall events that occurred during a circumscribed period
of time, usually the first few hours following a profoundly disturbing event (e.g., the uninjured survivor of a car accident).

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Localized Amnesia

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Describe the type of amnesia?

The person can recall some, but not all, of the events during a circumscribed period of time.

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Selective Amnesia

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Describe the type of amnesia?

Failure of recall encompasses the person's entire life. Individuals with this rare
disorder usually present to the police, to emergency rooms, or to general hospital consultation-liaison services.

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Generalized Amnesia

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Describe the type of amnesia?

Is defined as the inability to recall events subsequent to a specific time up to and
including the present. This is a rare form of amnesia.

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Continuous Amnesia

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Describe the type of amnesia?

Is loss of memory for certain categories of information, such as all memories
relating to one's family or to a particular person. This is a rare form of amnesia.

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Systematized Amnesia

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What dissociative disorder is described below?

Predominant Disturbance
Confusion about personal identity or assuming of a new identity (partial or complete).

Key Features
Sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one's customary place of work, with inability to recall one's past.

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Dissociative Fugue

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What dissociative disorder is described below?

Presentation
Individual brought to clinical attention by others. Travel may range from brief
trips over relatively short periods of time (i.e., hours or days) to complex, usually unobtrusive wandering over long time periods (e.g., weeks or months), with some individuals reportedly crossing numerous national borders and traveling thousands of miles.

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Dissociative Fugue

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Describe the new identity that most fugues cause?

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Trick!! they dont usually cause the formation of a new identity

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What dissociative disorder is described below?

Predominant Disturbance
The presence of two or more distinct identities or personalities.

Key Features
At least two of these identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person's behavior. Inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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What dissociative disorder is described below?

Presentation
-Presence of two or more distinct personalities
-Present with frequent gaps in memory
-Evidence of amnesia may be uncovered by other individuals
-Transitions among identities often triggered by psychosocial stress

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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If a person with dissociative identity disorder also presents with self-mutilative behavior, impulsivity, and
sudden and intense changes in
relationships, what cormorbid psychiatric disorder may be present?

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border-line personality disorder

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describe some of the physiological changes between personalities that may be seen in an individual with dissociative identity disorder?

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differences in visual acuity, pain tolerance, symptoms
of asthma, sensitivity to allergens, and response of blood glucose to insulin

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A young woman presents with scars from self-inflicted injuries and complaines of migraines and irritable bowel syndrome. She also mentions that she has lapses in memory and that the otherday she found a new pair of pants in her dresser she doesnt remember buying. What is the most likely cause of these symptoms?

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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what is the mean age of diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder?

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30

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which gender is dissociative identity disorder more common and which gender tends to have more personalities?

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women and women

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what dissociative disorder is described below?

Predominant Disturbance
Persistent or recurrent experiences of feeling detached from, and as if one is an outside observer of, one's mental processes or body (e.g., feeling like one is in a dream).

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Depersonalization Disorder

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what dissociative disorder is described below?

The individual may feel like an automaton or as if he or she is living in a dream or a movie.
There may be a sensation of being an outside observer of one's mental processes, one's body, or parts of one's body. Various types of sensory anesthesia, lack of affective response, and a sensation of lacking control of one's actions, including speech, are often present

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Depersonalization Disorder

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what is the most commong age range for the development of Depersonalization Disorder?

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15-30

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is Depersonalization Disorder more common in men or women?

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women