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Originally Posted by JosieTheGirl
As far as I've always understood it... dissociative fugue is [and has been for a long time] way more than like, fainting and not remembering, or not remembering an hour or two. Classically- it often describes situations as drastic as people just leaving their lives entirely, winding up in a different state for months possibly years. It has been shifted around but even now it is used in that manner often instead of using specific DSM terminology [particularly RIGHT NOW because new DSM versions and so many people just have been tossing theirs in the trash and retrieving it the next day to only wash rinse and repeat. ...which is a good time]
They don't know where they came from and have no previous knowledge of their lives before.
Dissociative fugue is difficult to get confused with Stendahl Syndrome- I'm actually pretty sure that Stendhal would be stuck in the back pages with all the "uncool" culture-bound kids.
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Originally Posted by JosieTheGirl
it often describes situations as drastic as people just leaving their lives entirely, winding up in a different state for months possibly years.
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different countries, locations, cultures have different definitions for mental disorders .... here in the US the mental health community went by the standard that dissociative fugue can happen to anyone, and that it did not necessarily have a time limit of months or years.
the DSM IV TR which has been the standard from the year 2000 to may 2013 states dissociative fugue 300.13 ...
Criterion A: sudden, unexpected travel to some far off place, away from one’s normal surroundings or place of residence. There is inability to recall any or all of one’s past.
Criterion B: assumption of a new identity, or at the very least, confusion of one’s personal identity (leading to doubts about “who am I?”).
Criterion C: the impairment is not due to the direct effect of physiological effect of substance or a general medical condition.
Criterion D: the symptoms are such as to cause distress which is clinically significant, and / or lead to impairment in important areas of functioning.
for me I may alternate personalities took me to other states and started whole new lives.. but this doesnt necessarily happen to other who do not have alternate personalities....
if you read criterion B you will see that the very least severity is ....confusion...similar to someone who has amnesia and doesnt know who they are....
sometimes with stendhals a person who has fainted can get up and walk around in a dissociated fugue state of mind where they dont know who they are and how they got where they are at that moment when they suddenly become aware that they are not where they last remembered their self to be.
also the reason why you may read some people on here going by the DSM IV TR standards and others going by the DSM 5 standards may be because their location may not be going by the DSM 5 yet or their treatment providers have not changed over yet. there are many people on psych central who are from different countries, locations cultures and treatment providers so not everyone goes by the same standards, and yes that can get confusing...
I try to meet the members here on what ever ground/ standard definitions/.....they are on and at the same time let people know what I go by because I am in the NY that is in the USA.
my opinion is here there is no right or wrong, everyone posts according to what their own location, culture, treatment providers go by.