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A disorder characterized by the presence of two or more identities or personalities which take turns controlling the person's behavior.
What is dissociative identity disorder
Severe alterations or detachments from reality are known as
dissociation
Name two symptoms of dissociative disorders
Memory loss, Depression and Anxiety, Depersonalization, Derealization, Blurred sense of identity
a dissociative disorder in which people suddenly leave their familiar surroundings and assume a new identity without remembering their real identity.
What is dissociative fugue
Describe how a person with depersonalization disorder feels.
"Looking at yourself from a 3rd party view."
Purposely faking physical symptoms, inducing physical symptoms or just pretending to have them
Factitious disorders
A disorder characterized by abnormal memory functioning in the absence of structural brain damage or a known neurobiological cause.
What is dissociative amnesia
What form of dissociation makes you feel as though you are floating, or watching a movie of yourself?
depersonalization
True or false, dissociative disorders are more commonly found in children than in adults.
True
What dissociative disorder is characterized by a partial or total inability to recall past experiences and important information?
Dissociative Amnesia
body dysmorphic disorder symptoms
What is Skin picking, obsessive comparisons and grooming, camouflaging
What is Sudden and unplanned travel away from home, inability to recall past events confusion or loss of memory about his or her identity
fugue state
Belief that physical symptoms are signs of a serious illness, even when there is no medical evidence to support the presence of an illness.
What is Hypochondrasis
The 4 types of somatic disorders
Somatic symptom disorder
Illness anxiety disorder
Psychological factors affecting medical condition
Conversion disorder
Past trauma or unconscious conflict is “converted” to a more acceptable manifestation, i.e., physical symptoms
Freud/psychodynamic
How many different identities does a person have to have in order to be diagnosed with DID
2 or more.
Name the 4 dissociative disorders.
Dissociative disorder Dissociative amnesia Dissociative fugue Dissociative identity disorder
Illness anxiety disorder was formerly called
Hypochondriasis
Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another is also called:
Munchausen syndrome by proxy