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| User: | _dissociation_ (7068926)
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| Name: | Dissociated |
| About: | I created this community as a place for those who suffer from dissociation/depersonalisation/derealisation to discuss their experiences. Personally, I have only come across communities for people who suffer from dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality disorder, dissociation however is a symptom of many a disorder. Experiences vary a great deal from person to person. further down is some useful information to help define it though it may not necessarily cover what dissociation means to you.
Anybody can join this community. It doesn't matter whether you have a medical diagnosis or what your diagnosis is(though applications are moderated to prevent trolling and help keep a safe environment). Prejudice/nastiness/making fun will not be tolerated. Disagreement and debate is fine but unecessary remarks will be deleted and users given a warning/banned (depending on the situation. Please put long posts under an ljcut. If you don't know how to do that then please ask!
If you have any community related problems, please let me know.
Thanks ;)
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kawaiinoir (your moderator)
"Dissociation is the disconnection from full awareness of self, time, and/or external circumstances. It is a complex neuropsychological process.
Dissociation exists along a continuum from normal everyday experiences to disorders that interfere with everyday functioning.
Common examples of normal dissociation are:
highway hypnosis (a trance-like feeling that develops as the miles go by),
"getting lost" in a book or a movie so that one loses a sense of passing time and surroundings, and daydreaming.
Researchers and clinicians believe that dissociation is a common, naturally occurring defense against childhood trauma.
Children tend to dissociate more readily than adults. Faced with overwhelming abuse, it is not surprising that children would psychologically flee (dissociate) from full awareness of their experience. Dissociation may become a defensive pattern that persists into adulthood and can result in a full-fledged dissociative disorder.
The essential feature of dissociative disorders is a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness.
If the disturbance occurs primarily in memory, Dissociative Amnesia or Fugue (APA, 1994) results; important personal events cannot be recalled.
Dissociative Amnesia with acute 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 new location and the assumption of a new identity. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), although not officially a dissociative disorder (it is classified as an anxiety disorder), can be thought of as part of the dissociative spectrum.
In PTSD, recall/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), formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder." (www.dissociation.co.uk)
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