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Dissociative fugue

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Featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity.

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Factitious disorders

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Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy and attention.

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Dissociative trance disorder (DTD)

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Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction.

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Hypochondriasis

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Somatoform disorder involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause.

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Somatization disorder

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Somatoform disorder involving extreme and long lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident.

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Derelizarion

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Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world.

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Dissociative identity disorder ( DID)

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Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

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Dissociative amnesia

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Dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information; usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.

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Pain Disorder

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Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance.

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Conversion disorder

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Physical malfunction, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but no organic pathological to account for it .

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Malingering

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Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.

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Localized or selective amnesia

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Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particular traumatic events.

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Body Dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

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Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance (“imagined ugliness”)

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Depersonalization disorder

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Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the individuals life and prevent normal functioning.

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Somatoform disorder

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Pathological concern individuals with the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical condition.

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Dissociative disorder

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Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and the feel reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate.

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Alters

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Shorthand term for alter ego, one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder.

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Generalized amnesia

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Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.

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Factitious disorder

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Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy, and attention.