Dissociation Is Defined As The Disconnection From Self-awareness, Time, And/or E

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Term Paper Title	Dissociation Is Defined As The Disconnection From Self-awareness, Time, And/or E
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Dissociation is defined as the disconnection from self-awareness, time, and/or external circumstances. It is a very complex process. Dissociation can exists from normal everyday experiences to disorders that interfere with everyday life. Normal dissociation consists of: highway hypnosis (a trance-like feeling that develops as the miles go by), "getting lost" in a book or movie so that one loses a sense of passing time and surroundings, and daydreaming.
Dissociation is a common defense against childhood abuse, mostly sexual. Children dissociate much more than adults. When a child is face with overwhelming abuse, it is not surprising that he/she would psychologically flee from full awareness of their experience. Dissociation is often a defensive pattern that continues into adulthood and will result in a full-fledged dissociative disorder.
Dissociative disorders main feature is a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness. If the disturbance occurs in memory, Dissociative Amnesia of Fugue results; important personal events cannot be recalled. Dissociative Amnesia with loss of memory may result from wartime trauma, a severe accident or rape. Dissociative Fugue is indicated by not only loss of memory, but also travel to a now location and the assumption of a new identity. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), although not officially a dissociative disorder, can be classified as part of the dissociative spectrum. In PTSD, re-experiencing of the trauma (flashbacks) alternates with numbing (detachment or dissociation), and avoidance. Atypical dissociative disorders are classified as Dissociative Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (DDNOS). If the disturbance occurs primarily in identity with parts of the self assuming separate identities, the resulting disorder is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), also known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
All dissociative disorders are trauma-based, and result from the constant dissociation of traumatic memories. For example, a rape victim with Dissociative Amnesia may have no conscious memory of the attack, yet they experience depression, numbness, and distress resulting from environmental stimuli such as colors, odors, sounds, and images that recall the traumatic experience. The memory really isn’t forgotten, its active and alive, but submerged. The origin of DID, which usually develops before age 12 or as young as 5, is a result of severe physical, sexual, and/o...

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