Mental health problems >>>> Dissociative disorder

Dissociative disorder.

Dissociative disorder is a defensive reaction of the psyche of a person experiencing an excruciatingly tolerable or unbearable stress factor (for example, a life tragedy, a traumatic situation for the psyche).

Dissociative disorder is manifested by changes (temporary or permanent, depending on the type of dissociative disorder) of some functions of the psyche: transformations of consciousness, personal identity, memory. The greatest predisposition to the development of dissociative disorder is shown by people with a developed imagination, emotionally sensitive, overly impressionable, suggestible, inclined to enter trance states. Dissociative disorders are more often observed in people who have experienced violence in childhood, who had psychologically uncomfortable living conditions in the family, who suffer from a lack of moral support from the people around them, who have become participants in natural or man-made disasters, hostilities, etc.

Dissociative disorder can be represented by:

Psychogenic amnesia
Split personality
Psychogenic fugue.

In foreign classifications, there are other forms of dissociative disorders:

Depersonalization of personality - alienation of one's own body and observation of one's life, as it were, from the outside,
A state of trance or stupor - a temporary loss of the ability to respond to external stimuli,
Dissociative disorder of motor skills and sensations and other disorders.

With psychogenic amnesia, a person is able to lose partially or completely the memory of the traumatic event. Memory is restored during psychotherapy sessions, but at the same time they try to smooth out the emotional acuteness from depressing memories.

With a psychogenic fugue - an escape from his own personality, a person can forget who he really is, change his name, surname, place of residence, profession, biography. This condition is reversible. With the help of hypnosis and the help of psychotherapists, a person eventually restores his memory of himself.

With a split personality (or dissociative identity disorder), a person has a second personality (or several personalities), between which there is a transition (switching). Each of the personalities has its own name, its own memories, perhaps a different gender, and when switching does not remember anything from the life of its other personality. This type of disorder can be chronic in nature, and treatment is carried out for a long period.