Dissociative Fugue
By: William Kaufmann
Dissociative fugue affects about 2 of 1,000 people in the United States.
Definition of Dissociative fugue
Dissociative Episode
Causes of Dissociative Fugue
Treatments
Medicines
Psychotherapy
Art Therapy
How common is it and who does it affect?
There is really no gender or age that is effected more than another from dissociative fugue. This is usually diagnosed when you are older or later in your life because these are when the symptoms start to show. And this disease is mostly caused for stress or traumatic events. These events play a role towards when an episode may happen depending on the timing of the events in your lifetime. This disease can be found all over the world and impacts many ethnic and racial groups.
Real life
Works Consulted
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For Man With Amnesia, Love Repeats Itself. (n.d.). Retrieved December 16, 2014, from http://www.npr.org/2012/12/14/167187734/for-man-with-amnesia-love-repeats-itself