No, dissociation runs on a spectrum, with DID being the most severe form of dissociation.
Dissociative disorders include:
* Dissociative amnesia
* Dissociative identity disorder
* Dissociative fugue
* Depersonalization disorder
* Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)
* Dissociative amnesia. Memory loss that's more extensive than normal forgetfulness and can't be explained by a physical or neurological condition is the hallmark of this condition. Sudden-onset amnesia following a traumatic event, such as a car accident, happens infrequently. More commonly, conscious recall of traumatic periods, events or people in your life — especially from childhood — is simply absent from your memory.
* Dissociative identity disorder. This condition, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is characterized by "switching" to alternate identities when you're under stress. In dissociative identity disorder, you may feel the presence of one or more other people talking or living inside your head. Each of these identities may have their own name, personal history and characteristics, including marked differences in manner, voice, gender and even such physical qualities as the need for corrective eyewear. There often is considerable variation in each alternate personality's familiarity with the others. People with dissociative identity disorder typically also have dissociative amnesia.
* Dissociative fugue. People with this condition dissociate by putting real distance between themselves and their identity. For example, you may abruptly leave home or work and travel away, forgetting who you are and possibly adopting a new identity in a new location. People experiencing dissociative fugue typically retain all their faculties and may be very capable of blending in wherever they end up. A fugue episode may last only a few hours or, rarely, as long as many months. Dissociative fugue typically ends as abruptly as it begins. When it lifts, you may feel intensely disoriented, depressed and angry, with no recollection of what happened during the fugue or how you arrived in such unfamiliar circumstances.
* Depersonalization disorder. This disorder is characterized by a sudden sense of being outside yourself, observing your actions from a distance as though watching a movie. It may be accompanied by a perceived distortion of the size and shape of your body or of other people and objects around you. Time may seem to slow down, and the world may seem unreal. Symptoms may last only a few moments or may wax and wane over many years.
Some links to check out:
http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Dissociative_Disorders.htm
http://www.sidran.org/didbr.html
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dissociative-disorders/DS00574
2006-09-01 16:52:31
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answered by EDtherapist 5
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in case you particularly had DID then you definately might haven't any way of understanding if the different identities have been mad or no longer. there is not any psychological connection between the separate identities interior the suggestions. a number of those warning signs would sense comparable, yet you very possibly don't have this illness. i elect to recommend which you spot a physician in the present day and get them to diagnose. And as for the asylum, no, you will no longer get sent everywhere till you are going to tutor right into a loopy psychotic killer and homicide a set of folk (or in case you have already got.) So do no longer undertaking, with suited therapy all would be ok. in simple terms bypass to a physician and confer with them.
2016-12-11 19:24:23
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answered by ? 4
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that would be one disorder under the dissociative disorders classification in the DSM-VI there are others such as dissociative anmesia, dissociative fuge, depersonalization, dissociatve disorder NOS ( not other specified )
2006-09-01 16:56:41
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answered by mochi.girl 3
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