Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

Your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your own reality as if you were in a dream and you were watching yourself.

Answer 1

Depersonalization

Question 2

Your sense of the reality of the external world is lost.

Answer 2

Derealization

Question 3

What is the mean age of onset and course for depersonalization-derealization disorder?

Answer 3

16
Chronic

Question 4

What are the disorders commonly found in individuals with depersonalization-derealization disorder?

Answer 4

Anxiety, mood, personality disorders

Question 5

A pattern of dissociative amnesia. People who are unable to remember anything including who they are. It may be lifelong or may extend from a period in the more recent past such as 6 months or a year previously.

Answer 5

Generalized amnesia

Question 6

A pattern of dissociative amnesia. It is a failure to recall specific events, usually traumatic that occur during a specific period.

Answer 6

Localized or Selective amnesia

Question 7

A subtype of Dissociative amnesia. It means “flight’. Individuals just take off and later find themselves in a new place, unable to remember why they got there. A person sometimes assumes a new identity or atleast becomes confused about the old identity.

Answer 7

Dissociative Fugue

Question 8

Dissociative amnesia usually occurs in what periof and until when?

Answer 8

Adulthood to old age.

Question 9

What is the most prevalent of all the dissociative Disorders?

Answer 9

Dissociative amnesia

Question 10

Individuals in this trancelike state often brutally assault and sometimes kills people or animals. Most people with this disorder are males.

Answer 10

Amok

Question 11

“Running” syndrome in which an individual enters a trancelike state and suddenly imbued with a mysterious source of energy, runs or flees for a long time.

Answer 11

Running amok

Question 12

Except for amok, the prevalence of running disorders is somewhat greater in _, as with the most dissociative disorders.

Answer 12

Women

Question 13

What is the term native peoples of the Arctic use for running disorder?

Answer 13

Pivloktoq

Question 14

The term the Navajo tribe use for running disorder.

Answer 14

Frenzy witchcraft

Question 15

People that may adopt as many as 100 identities, all simultaneously coexisting, although average number is closer to 15. In some, identities are complete with its own behavior, tone of voice and physical gestures. But in some, only few characteristics are distinct because identities are only partially independent. Certain aspects of the person’s identity are dissociated. It also include amnesia and has a “host” identity.

Answer 15

Dissociative Identity Disorders

Question 16

This personality in DID usually attempt to hold various fragments of identity together but end up being overwhelmed.

Answer 16

Host personality

Question 17

The shorthand term fro the different identities or personalities in DID, in which cross gendered atre not uncommon.

Answer 17

Alters

Question 18

The transition from one personality to another of someone with DID. Physical transformations may occur.

Answer 18

Switch