Basic Definitions
This feeling involves detachment or estrangement from one's self.
*What is depersonalization?*
The minimum number of distinct identities required for a DID diagnosis.
*What is two?*
The minimum duration of symptoms required for a somatic symptom disorder diagnosis.
*What is six months?*
This alteration involves the perception that one's surroundings seem unreal or artificial.
*What is derealization?*
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What is TikTok?
This type of amnesia involves the inability to recall important personal information after trauma.
*What is dissociative amnesia?*
The age before which most somatic symptom disorder patients are typically diagnosed.
*What is 30 years old?*
This disorder involves preoccupation with developing a severe medical condition without actual physical symptoms.
*What is illness anxiety disorder?*
Most episodes of this condition last only a few hours or days, involving sudden wandering and identity confusion.
*What is dissociative fugue?*
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What is "K-Pop Demon Hunters"
This disorder involves physical symptoms that suggest illness but cannot be fully explained by medical conditions.
*What is somatic symptom disorder?*
This DSM-5 criterion for DID involves gaps in memory that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
*What are recurrent gaps in recall?*
Common symptoms of this disorder include blindness, paralysis, and seizures without organic cause.
*What is functional neurological symptom disorder (conversion disorder)?*
These two emotions commonly accompany somatic symptom disorders across cultures and genders.
*What are anxiety and depression?*
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Who is SB19?
This sleep-related phenomenon is strongly connected to dissociative symptoms according to Watson's research.
*What are nightmares?*
According to research, this many out of 30 DID patients were found to have nightmare disorder.
*What is 17?*
This condition involves deliberately producing symptoms to assume a patient role without malingering motives.
*What is factitious disorder?*
This type of dreaming is only weakly related to dissociative symptoms, unlike nightmares.
*What is lucid dreaming?*
This Netflix series starring Jenna Ortega as a gothic teen sleuth broke viewership records for Wednesday Addams fans everywhere.
What is “Wednesday”?
This perspective suggests that dissociation serves as a defense mechanism against overwhelming emotional conflict.
*What is the psychodynamic perspective?*
This model explains the connection between sleep disturbances and dissociative symptoms.
*What is the sleep-dissociation model?*
The former name for factitious disorder imposed on another, involving deliberately causing symptoms in someone else's care.
*What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy?*
This extreme depersonalization experience involves seeing oneself from another person's vantage point.
*What is an out-of-body experience?*
This K-pop idol from BLACKPINK appeared in Fortnite as a playable character skin.
Who is Jisoo?