PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Derealization
12 Dec 2019
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Not describing symptoms as if they are another person - i. e still are themselves, can tell you what their experiencing and going on - no sense that it is a psychotic episode. Needs to be separate from anxiety, or ptsd. Hard in a clinical room to diagnose and determine - quite rare. Unusual to have the symptoms of ptsd but not have any symptoms of anxiety of. An ability to recall important autobiographical information usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. Clear autobiographical information that we just loose. Often it"s related to a traumatic/stressful event. * or generalized for identity and life history. This also looks like symptoms of ptsd. With dissociative fugue: not only do you forget who you are but apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering that is associated with amnesia for identity or for important autobiographical information. Typically episodic - don"t remember during the time that they were in the fugue.
