PSYCH 9C Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.3: Critical Role, Antibody, Catatonia
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Psychosis, which is a break from reality in which the person has di culty distinguishing what thoughts or perceptions are real versus what are imagined. Dissociative disorders are disruptions in memory, awareness, and identity. We all have been disoriented and forget why we were going to our room to grab something. Our thoughts and experiences can become dissociated, or split, from the external world. Dissociative disorders: disorders that involve disruptions of identity, of memory, or of conscious awareness. Splitting off of some parts of memory from conscious awareness. Split off a traumatic event in order to protect the self. Some might be prone to ptsd new research shows. Dissociative amnesia, a person forgets that an event happened or loses awareness of a substantial block of time. May suddenly lose memory for personal facts. Person does not remember events that occurred during the fugue state. Retrograde amnesia, a form of dissociative amnesia.
