Dissociative Disorders
This dissociative disorder is the inability to recall important personal information.
What is dissociative amnesia?
Many years ago, a doctor wrote a paper saying that this vaccine led to autism in children. This claim has since been proven false.
What is the MMR vaccine?
Individuals with this dissociative disorder may experience a lack of control over their own body, a distorted sense of time, and “out-of-body” experiences.
What is depersonalization disorder?
Individuals with this disorder may get distracted easily, forget things, lose personal belongings, and not finish tasks.
What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
Individuals with this may wander away from homes, be confused about their identity, and, on occasion, adopt new identities.
What is dissociative fugue?
In 1943, Leo Kanner explained that children with this disorder may exhibit one or more of the following behaviors: Playing alone, staying quiet or not speaking at all, and/or repeating the same activity over and over.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
People with this disorder, as described by the textbook, "exhibit two or more separate personalities or identities, each well-defined and distinct from one another.”
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
About 1 in 59 kids in the U.S. has this disorder, and it shows up four times more in boys than in girls.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
Individuals experiencing this may have feelings of being in a fog/dream, or that the surrounding world is not real.
What is derealization?
This disorder usually runs in families, for example, the twins study described in the textbook. If one identical twin has this disorder, the other likely has it too (2 of 3 times). If a non-identical twin has this disorder, it’s less likely for the other to have it (1 of 5 times).
What is ADHD?