PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dissociative Disorder, Abnormal Psychology, Bulimia Nervosa
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Although not effective for anorexia or binge-eating disorder. Dropout rates from drug-treatment programs are high and relapse is common when people stop taking the medication. Cognitive behavioral treatment (cbt) is best psychotherapeutic treatment. Questioning beliefs about physical attractiveness and food restriction. Dissociation is the core feature of the dissociative disorder, involves some aspect of emotion, memory, or experience being inaccessible consciously. Depersonalization: experience of detachment from one"s mental processes or body or. Symptoms are not explained by substances, other dissociative disorder, another psychological disorder, or by a medical condition. Can be tricky to rule out other disorders that often involved depersonalization including bpd, cannabis use disorder, panic disorder, and. Unable to recall important personal information, usually information about some traumatic experience. The holes in the memory are too extensive to be ordinary forgetfulness. The episode of amnesia may last as briefly as several hours or for as long as several years.
