Identify the features and epidemiology of dissociative disorders
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- normal dissociation refers to separation of emotions, thoughts, memories, or other inner experiences from oneself
- dissociation that occurs in a severe or very odd way may be a dissociative disorder
- dissociative amnesia refers to loss of memory for highly personal information
- dissociative fugue involves sudden movement away from home or work with loss of memories for personal and other information
- dissociative identity disorder refers to two or more distinct personality states within a person that include a host personality and subpersonalities that often differ in their awareness of each other
- depersonalization/derealization disorder refers to persistent experiences where a person feels detached from his body as if in a dream state
- dissociation is common in people with mental disorders; the prevalence of formal dissociative disorders in the general population is less common
- dissociative disorders are often associated with trauma and trauma-related mental disorders
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