Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Dissociative Amnesia...what is it?


Dissociative amnesia has several distinct patterns it may follow, including:

  • Generalized amnesia, wherein an individual may fail to remember anything
  • Localized/selective amnesia, often in which traumatic events are unable to be recalled
  • Dissociative fugue: while in "fugue", or a disturbed state of consciousness, individuals find themselves in new and different places with no memory as to how they got there. Fugues may last for only a few hours, but may stretch on for months. Post-fugue, the person may assume a new identity, or become confused about their past identity.

2 comments:

  1. How is dissociative fugue exactly different from dissociative identity disorder?

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  2. Although this is triggered by traumatic events, could this be passed on to genetics?

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