mental health disorders
Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Symptoms of Dissociative Subtype of PTSD
Symptoms ofPTSDinclude intrusion symptoms (for example, involuntary memories, dreams, or flashbacks). Many people try to avoid remembering the events or physical reminders of those events or experience dissociative amnesia. They may develop negative thought patterns and go on to feel detached or estranged from others, blame themselves for things they did not do, and/or become unable to experience positive emotions. Hypervigilance (the state of constantly assessing threats in the environment), irritability, difficulty concentrating, and sleep disturbance also occur. Thedissociative symptomsfor which this subtype of PTSD is named disrupt identity, memory, and consciousness: Depersonalization: Feeling detached from one's mental processes or body, so that one feels like an outside observer of one's own experience Derealization: Persistent or recurrent experiences of one's surroundings as being unreal, as though the world were unreal or dreamlike 