Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Stats & Facts

  • An individual may develop PTSD if they become privy to the traumatic events that caused their amnesia.
  • Around seven percent of the population is affected by dissociative amnesia
  • Only a small percentage of psychiatrists believe there is strong scientific support for dissociative amnesia 
  • It’s more common for women to experience dissociative amnesia than men
  • Trauma has been shown to have a direct correlation with the disorder

2 comments:

  1. How common is the comorbidity of individuals with Dissociative amnesia and PTSD statistically?

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  2. why is it more common for women to experience dissociative amnesia than men? is it something biologically proven?

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