Dissociative amnesia is a type of amnesia caused by trauma or stress resulting in an inability to recall important personal information. Dissociative amnesia is one of the amnesia. Amnesia is a full or partial inability to recall experiences that are new or old.
When amnesia is caused by psychological rather than a physical disorder, called dissociative amnesia. Amnesia can also be a symptom of other disorders, such as acute stress disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or somatization disorder.
In dissociative amnesia, memory loss usually affects the information that is normally a part of a routine or conscious memory 'diri' history-one of which is: what is done; Where to go: by whom speaking: what to say, think, and feel , and so on, sometimes the information is, forget the mind, which in turn affects the behavior of the person.
People with dissociative amnesia usually have one or more memory gap missing a few minutes to a few hours or days. Even so, the missing memory gap year or even throughout one's life can occur. Most people with dissociative amnesia aware that they had 'lost some time', but few people realize just lose time when they are aware of it or face the fact that they have to do things that they do not remember. Some people with dissociative amnesia forgetting some but not all of the events that exceed a certain period of time, others can not remember all the lives that have passed or forget things they experienced.
Etiology
This disorder is very common among young adults, is more common in people who have been involved in war, accident, or natural disaster. It can also block the memory of sexual violence in childhood, later recalled again in adulthood. Dissociative amnesia can occur for some time after the traumatic event. Do some recovered memories reflect real events in the mass memory and the unknown, until confirmed by others.
Signs and Symptoms
The symptoms are very common in dissociative amnesia is loss of memory. Soon after becoming amnesia, a person can look puzzled. Most people with dissociative amnesia or at least suffered depression because of their amnesia.