Major Categories of Mental Disorders: Dissociative Disorders

Amnesia

• a person loses their personal information (name, address, siblings, jobs, school), but they still know non-personal things (president, country)

Psychological Cause: traumatic events

Example: Fugue Disorder - you don’t know who you are and you travel

Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities)

• the existence of 2 or more distinct personalities in the same person

• they repress themselves and another person comes out; you dissociate

  Cause: childhood trauma that happens over a long period of time (physical/sexual abuse)

  Treatment: therapy (glueing together a broken vase)

• you will never be the same again, but you can kind of fix it

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