dissociative disorders

• Dissociative Identity Disorder - Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which may be described in some cultures as an experience of possession.
• Derealization – Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings.
• Depersonalization – Experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions.
• Dissociative Amnesia

  • An inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
• dissociative disorders

  • unbidden intrusion into awareness and behavior,
  • an "inability to access" information or to control mental functions that normally are readily amenable to access or control.
  • frequently found in the aftermath of trauma
  • symptoms include embarrassment and confusion about the symptoms or a desire to hide them, are influenced by the proximity to trauma