There are attempts to refamiliarize the individual with personal memoirs, belongings, and people with whom they are familiar. Initially the individual must be made to feel safe and reassured freedom from danger. The closer the amnesia is to the stressful event, the quicker it can resolveВ . Psychotherapy is the essence of treatment.В The return of memory can be just as sudden as its disappearance, but the spectrum of memory recovery can be minutes to years. Dissociative amnesia can present with comorbidities of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), somatic symptom disorder, conversion disorder, and personality disorders.

Persons with neurocognitive disorders, brain lesions, head injuries, seizures, and substance use can present with signs that appear similarВ . It is important to rule out other disorders when making the diagnosis of dissociative amnesia. There is no amnesia of events prior to the event or impediment on the formation of new memoriesВ . It has a much lower prevalence of 0.2% and bears the same onset, risks, and recovery like dissociative amnesiaВ .В Dissociative fugue can last for hours to months and there is a loss of memory during the fugue state. Awareness of memory loss is brought to light when others present the missing information to the individual.В The formation of new memories is usually not impededВ .Дissociative amnesia mayВ be associated with dissociative fugue, a variant of the amnesia, where the individual has purposefully traveled or wandered away from home or workplaceВ . What is even more perplexing is the individual is often unaware of the amnesia, вЂњamnesia for their amnesiaВ .вЂќ Individuals can lose minutes in time to memories related to half of their lifeВ . It usually follows an extremely stressful experience and is often associated with child abuse (particularly sexual and physical), suicide attempts, interpersonal violence, victimization, and deliberate self-harm. The memory loss is retrograde, sudden, and cannot be explained by a neurological cause or being forgetful. Dissociative amnesia is defined as the вЂњinability to recall important autobiographical informationВ .вЂќ It has a prevalence of 1.8%, is the most common of the dissociative disorders, and is often diagnosed within the ages of 20-40 years oldВ . The dissociation is the mindвЂ™s way of hiding the traumatic event from the individualвЂ™s consciousness. Dissociative disorders are a rare class of psychiatric ailments that cling to heals of trauma and stressful events. Dissociative amnesia falls under the umbrella of psychiatric dissociative disorders.

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