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Originally Posted by gypsy mom
The thing that seems to describe his experience most closely is dissociative fugue. It is purposeful travel, he feels he must get to a certain destination. But he does have some memory of the time before whatever this is wears off. The information I have found says that with a fugue state a person cannot remember what happened during the event. We are very concerned, and so glad he will have insurance coverage after the first. Apparently, you can only qualify for mental health care through medicaid, etc. if you already have a diagnosed mental illness--they couldn't say what a person is supposed to do to get diagnosed. But the change in my husband's insurance will allow all of the children to be on our policy now until age 26--so at 21 my son has several years for us to work on it!
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if you are looking for a purposeful travel then dissociative fugue most likely isnt it. dissociative fugue isnt a purposeful travel. its an impulsive type travel associated with the flight or fight response and it happens after a traumatic, highly stressful event.
to get an idea what this is like - have you ever had someone scare the heck out of you? you know that feeling of gasping and holding your breath and sudden urge to run the other direction.
thats what dissociative fugue is like. a traumatic or highly stressful event happens and the person takes to reflexive flight to gosh knows where and usually begins a whole new life as a different person because they have no memory of who they are, no memory of family and friends and why they are in that new location. theres no purpose to this kind of travel it just happens spontaneously.
Alzheimers on the other hand is a purposeful travel. people with this disease tend to travel to places and people they remember from the past because they have trouble remembering the present.
there are other mental and medical problems that have a purposeful type travel too.
I am not saying he has this or any other travel type problem, But some of these travel type problems do have purposeful travel and some dont.
it would be best not to try and fit him into one or the other. you diagnose him with one and it turns out to be something different you could be doing yourself and him more harm than good.
let his doctors do the diagnosing. if one doctor cant tell him and you why he does this contact another one and then another. sooner or later as his other symptoms rule in and out the various types of travel problems, his treatment providers will be able to tell you what kind of travel problem this is and how to fix it.
