A Dissociative disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception. These disturbances may be sudden or gradual, transient or chronic. Dissociative symptoms are also included in the same criteria as acute stress disorder. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Somatization disorder. Dissociative disorders are coded into different subtypes: Dissociative Amnesia (300.12), Dissociative Fugue (300.13), Dissociative Identity Disorder (300.14) Depersonalization Disorder (300.6) and Dissociative Disorder not otherwise specified. (300.15). .
Dissociative Amnesia (300.12) is an inability to recall important personal information; this occurs usually after a traumatic or stressful event that is too extensive to be explained by normal forgetfulness. Some individual may have amnesia for episodes of self-mutilation, violent outburst, or suicide attempts. Three other types of amnesia have been reported as generalized, continuous, and systemized, all of which are less common. Individuals with dissociative amnesia report depressive symptoms, anxiety, depersonalization, trance states, analgesia and spontaneous age regression. Dissociative Amnesia has been prevalent among those involved in early childhood traumas. Dissociative Amnesia can be present in any age group form young children to adults.
Dissociative Fugue (300.12) is sudden, unexpected travel away form ones home ore customary place of daily activities with the inability to recall some or all past. The symptoms must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupations, or other important areas of functioning. Travel may range form brief trips over relatively short periods of time or usually unobtrusive wandering over long periods of time. .
Those native to the Artic and those native's heavily into witchcraft have meet diagnostic criteria for Dissociative Fugue. A prevalence rate of 0.
