Dissociative Fugue
- Persons with Dissociative Fugue (similar to dissociative amnesia) temporarily lose their sense of personal identity. They impulsively wander or travel away from their homes, and work places.
- They show no sign of illness
- DF is linked to severe stress, and traumatic events
Treatments
- The first goal is to relieve any symptoms and control problem behavior (if any)
- Then, aims to help the person safely express and process painful memories.
How is it different?
- Dissociative Amnesia is not the same as simple amnesia.
- With dissociative, the memories still exist, however, they are deeply buried within the person's mind, and can't be recalled.
- The memories might be triggered by something in the person's surroundings.
Example/Scenario
- An example of dissociative fugue was demonstrated in a popular TV series, One Tree Hill
- One main character, Clay Evans, suffered from this disorder from a traumatic experience of his wife dying.
- He began wandering, and sleepwalking, and found out it was due to a memory he blocked out from his mind - that he had a son named Logan, with his deceased wife.
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What happens?
Dissociative amnesia occurs when a person blocks out certain information, usually associated with a stressful or traumatic event leaving persons unable to remember important personal information.
What is it?
- Dissociative Amnesia is one of the groups or conditions within dissociative disorders.
- They are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, consciousness, awareness, identity, and perception.
Dissociative Amnesia/Fugue
Kenzie Janes