Amnesia
An individual can recall some but not all of the events during a circumscribed period.
What is Selective Amnesia?
Dissociative identity disorder is also known as what disorder?
What is multiple personality disorder?
Experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions.
What is Depersonalization Disorder?
Persistent or recurrent experiences of unreality or detachment from one’s surroundings
What is Derealization Disorder
The individual forgets each new event as it occurs
What is continuous amnesia?
Dissociative identity disorder involves the presence of what?
What are 2 or more distinct personality states not better explained by imaginary playmates or fantasy in children?
During depersonalization experiences ____ _____ remains intact
What is reality testing?
How would someone with derealization disorder perceive their surroundings?
What is dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, or visually distorted?
A failure to recall events during a circumscribed period of time
What is localized amnesia?
In dissociative identity disorder, there are dissociative experiences that are triggered by __________ ?
What is unexpected trauma and severe emotional threats?
The mean age at onset for depersonalization disorder?
What is 16?
These types of experiences are common triggers for derealization disorder.
What is severe stress, childhood emotional abuse, or trauma?
The individual fails to recall a specific category og important information
What is Systematized amnesia?
These are the 3 top variables that increase vulnerability to dissociative identity disorder.
What are childhood trauma, biological factors, and suggestibility?
This disorder is connected to Depersonalization Disorder directly in the DMS-5.
What is Derealization Disorder?
This is the most effective treatment for derealization disorder
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
A woman named Lori was missing from her family after not returning home from work, which is very unlike her. Leading up to this event, Lori went through a divorce, and her father passed away. When Lori was found, she was using the name Mary and had a different identity. Once brought to the hospital, she said that she was not aware that there was anything wrong and did not know that “Mary” was a new identity. What is most likely the diagnosis?
What is Generalized amnesia with fugue?
A man arrives at a clinic reporting that he frequently "wakes up" in unfamiliar locations with no idea how he got there. He describes feeling like he is watching his life play out in a movie, disconnected from his own body. He is aware of these gaps in his memory, but he is shocked when the clinician points out that his handwriting and accent changed completely halfway through the intake form.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
After a minor car accident, 28‑year‑old Josh begins experiencing sudden episodes where his hands feel “not attached,” his voice sounds unfamiliar, and the world looks flat and dreamlike. He fears he’s “going crazy,” but he remains fully aware that his perceptions are distorted. Although the episodes sometimes occur during panic surges and he has mild accident‑related nightmares, he shows no hallucinations, delusions, or loss of reality testing. What dissociative identity disorder best explains his symptoms, and what is the most likely differential diagnosis?
What is Depersonalization Disorder and PTSD?
Marianna, age 23, reports episodes where her surroundings feel unreal and dreamlike, especially during periods of high stress. She is aware that these experiences are not real but becomes increasingly distressed and avoidant. She also reports a history of significant identity confusion where she feels like different states of herself emerge under stress, along with gaps in memory for certain experiences. This suggests a possible comorbidity involving what two dissociative disorders?
What are dissociative identity disorder and derealization disorder?