Dissociative Disorders / Dissociation

Dissociation is a mental process that causes a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memory and sense of identity. Dissociation can vary in its severity. Mild dissociation would be like daydreaming, getting “lost” in a book, or when you are driving down a familiar stretch of road and realize that you do not remember the last several miles. A severe and more chronic form of dissociation is seen in the disorder Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), once called Multiple Personality Disorder, and other Dissociative Disorders.
 
Treatment usually involves long-term, individualized psychotherapy.

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