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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

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