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Dissociative Disorders - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Often thought of as a coping mechanism that a person uses to disconnect from a stressful or traumatic situation or to separate traumatic memories from normal awareness
      - It is a way for a person to break the connection with the outside world, and create distance from an awareness of what is occurring
      - Can serve as a defense mechanism against the physical and emotional pain of a traumatic or stressful situation
      - By dissociating painful memories from everyday thought processes, a person can use dissociation to maintain a relatively healthy level of functioning, as though the trauma had not occurred
- - - - Psychiatric disorders, such as dementia and schizophrenia
      - Brain diseases
      - Seizure disorders
    - - Average age for developing depersonalization disorder is 16 years old
      - Rarely begins after age 40
  - - - A parent with sever mental illness
      - Abuse (witnessing or experiencing it)
      - Accidents
      - Life-threatening danger
      - Natural disasters
      - Sudden death of a loved one
      - War
      - Violence
    - - Being very tired
      - Sleep deprivation or sensory stimulation, which may happen in an in intensive care unit
      - Certain drugs, such as hallucinogens
    - - Certain personality or other mental health disorders
      - Physical condition, such as a seizure disorder
      - A nervous system that's less reactive to emotions
- - - - Generalized: forgetting much of the person's life history and/or identity
      - Fugue: person may forget most or all of his personal information (name, personal history, friends), and may sometimes even travel to a different location and adopt a completely new identity
      - Localized/Thematic: forgetting limited to certain specific areas