psychiatric disorders
Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Signs and Symptoms of Dissociative Subtype of PTSD
The dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) consists of all the symptoms of PTSD as well as depersonalization and/or derealization. include intrusion symptoms such as involuntary memories, dreams, or dissociative flashbacks. Many people try to avoid remembering the events or physical reminders of them. They may develop negative alterations in cognition, including Dissociative Amnesia , feeling detached or estranged from others, inappropriate self-blame, and inability to experience positive emotions. Hypervigilance, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and sleep disturbance also occur. Dissociative symptomsinclude disturbances of identity, memory, and consciousness (specifically, depersonalization and derealization): Depersonalization: Persistent or recurrent feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or body (eg as if one were an outside observer of one's experience; feeling as though one were in a dream; feeling a sense of unreality of self or body or of time moving slowly). Derealization: Persistent or recurrent experiences of unreality of one's surroundings (eg, the world around the individual is experienced as unreal, dreamlike, distant, or distorted). 