To prevent misdiagnosis, medical and mental health professionals need to evaluate an individual suspected of having dissociative amnesia. It should never be assumed that one’s symptoms are due to a mental illness, because there are diseases and conditions that can seriously affect memory. History and physical – Everyone who suffers from amnesia isn’t mentally ill. ...
Dissociation is the splitting apart or compartmentalizing of the brain to separate mostly memories of traumatic events. This splitting is to protect the person from trauma that they are unable to deal with at the time. There are 4 main Dissociative disorders including; Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Amnesia, Depersonalization Disorder, and Dissociative Identity Disorder (“The Cleveland ...
The Somatoform and Dissociative disorders were once considered to be hysterical neuroses, and were thought to be conversion of unconscious emotional conflicts into physical symptoms. Somatoform disorders Somatoform disorders typically involve a preoccupation with a physical complaint in the absence of any responsible organic condition. There are a number of categories of Somatoform disorders. Hypochondriasis ...
“People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.” The protagonist of David Fincher’s Fight Club, a film based on Chuck Palaniuk’s cult-hit novel of the same name, makes this statement a number of times throughout the course of the film. His life, in his estimation is routine, boring even, as he shuffles to ...
