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Originally Posted by dawnhopeful
Is it called a Dissociative Disorder when one on the one hand believes that one should follow a particular religious persuasion and on the other hand feels that organized religion is a negative, destructive thing? At the moment I want to go to synagogue and eventually move to Israel, but on the other hand I remember that not too long ago I called myself a spiritual person, but not a follower of any particular religion
dawnhopeful
I remember that my mom was religious. She had a great longing for Israel and asked me why I didnt want to move there. My dad, on the other hand never followed the Jewish dietary laws. He never believed that the soul gets transported to another dimension when one dies.
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one person being conflicted about religion, or any other topic is not the same as having a dissociative disorder.
Sometimes completely normal people do bounce around through different religions and beliefs before they find the right one for them.
Here the mental health community believe having a dissociative disorder is having one or more of the following -
Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociating to the point where you experience memory loss
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Having two or more alternate personalities recurrently taking control,
Which cannot be contributed to medications/drugs/alcohol and medical
conditions.
Dissociative Fugue
moving to a new location and starting life as a different person while in
a dissociated frame of mind where there is no memory of your previous
life. usually precipitated /caused by a traumatic event.
Depersonalization
being in a state of mind of being not in touch with yourself. Some people
discribe this as a feeling of numbness/floating/out of body/ along with
other symptoms
Derealization
Being in a state of mind where you perceive the world around you is not
connected to yourself. some people describe this as feeling like seeing
the world as being in slow motion/sped up/ not real among other
descriptions.
Dissociative Disorders Not Otherwise Specified.
Having symptoms of any or all of the above Dissociative disorders
but not enough to pin point one specific disorder.
each one of these in itself has criteria and none of them contain anything about one person being conflicted about religion or any other topic.
this is just a short summary of each dissociative disorder, there is much more involved with each of them and other locations and mental health communities may believe differently.
