Clinical Development of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative identity disorder is a condition where a person has at least two or more conditions are changing ego, which act independently of each other. According to the DSM-IV-TR, dissociative disorder diagnosis can be established when a person has at least two separate ego conditions, or capricious, different conditions in existence, feelings and actions to each other do not affect each other and raised and holding control at different times.

Clinical Development of Dissociative Identity Disorder :

• Individuals have at least two different personalities (the difference in being, feeling, behavior), even contradictory.
• The presence of two or more separate and distinct personality of someone. Each personality has a pattern of behavior, relationships and memory respectively.
• Original personality and fractions sometimes can realize their lost time period, the presence of other personalities. The voice of the other personalities often resonates, go into their consciousness but is not known to belong to anyone.
• Gap in memory may occur if a personality is not related to other personality.
• The existence of different individuals causing disruption in a person's life and can not be cured instantly by drugs.
• It usually appears in early childhood (severe trauma in childhood), but rarely diagnosed until adolescence. More severe than other forms of dissociative disorders.
• Women more than men.

Clinical Development of Depersonalization Disorder

Depersonalization disorder is a condition in which a person's perception or experience of the self-change. In the episode of depersonalization, which is generally triggered by stress, individuals suddenly lose their sense of self. The people with this disorder experience unusual sensory experiences, such as the size of the hands and feet they changed drastically, or their voices sound familiar to their own. The patient also feels are outside their bodies, staring at themselves from a distance, sometimes they feel like a robot, or they seemed to move in the real world.

Clinical Development of Depersonalization Disorder :

• Disorders in which a change in the perception or experience of the individual about himself.
• Individuals feel "not real" and felt alien to themselves and their surroundings, reasonably interfere with the function itself.
• Memory is not changed, but people lose their sense of self.
• These disorders cause stress and lead to bottlenecks in the various functions of life.
• Usually occurs after experiencing severe stress, such as an accident or dangerous situation.
• Usually begins in adolescence and chronic journey (in a long time).

Clinical Development of Dissociative Fugue

Dissociative fugue is memory loss accompanied by leaving the house and create a new identity. In a dissociative fugue, memory loss is greater than the dissociative amnesia. People who have not only experienced a dissociative fugue total amnesia, but suddenly leave home and move to a new identity.

Clinical Development of Dissociative Fugue :

• A disorder in which individuals forget that important personal information and establish a new identity, also moved to a new place.
• Individuals not only suffered amnesia in total, but also suddenly moved (escape) from home and work, as well as forming a new identity.
• Usually occurs after a person experiences some severe stress (conflict with spouse, job loss, suffering because of natural disasters).
• The new identity is often associated with the name, home, work and even a new personality characteristics. In the new life, the individual can succeed despite not being able to remember the past.
• Recovery is usually complete and individuals usually do not remember what happened during the fugue.

Clinical Development of Dissociative Amnesia

Dissociative amnesia is loss of memory after stressful events. A person suffering from this disorder are not able to recall important personal information, usually after a stressful episode.

In total amnesia, the patient does not recognize family and friends, but still have the ability to speak, read and reasoning, also still has the talent and knowledge of the world that had been obtained previously.

Clinical development of dissociative amnesia:

• Loss of memory (in part / whole), usually about important events (stressful, traumatic) has just happened, not due to organic mental disorders, forgetfulness, fatigue, intoxication.
• Individual suddenly becomes unable to recall important personal information (usually after some stressful events).
• During the period of amnesia, behavior or abilities of individuals may not be changed, except that the memory loss caused some disorientation, do not recognize the identity (origin, friends, family, etc.).
• Memory loss.
• Can only for certain events or all events of life.
• Usually takes place in a certain period of time, can be a few hours to several years.
• Memory is usually re-appear suddenly too, complete as before (only less likely to relapse).
• Loss of memory is not the same as those caused by brain damage or because of drug dependence.