Mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions and identity.
Imagine you're reading a book but suddenly pages are missing or out of order. You can't follow the story because parts of it are disconnected or disjointed. That's what living with a dissociative disorder can feel like.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): A disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states that recurrently take control of behavior.
Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder: A type of dissociative disorder that consists of persistent or recurrent episodes of depersonalization (feeling detached or disconnected from oneself) and/or derealization (experiencing the world as unreal, dreamlike, distant, or distorted).
Dissociative Amnesia: A type of dissociative disorder that involves inability to recall important personal information that would not typically be lost with ordinary forgetting. It is usually caused by trauma or stress.
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