dissociative wandering disorder
Introduction
Introduction Separate roaming is the sudden accidental departure from home or where you normally work, accompanied by the inability to recall your past and the ambiguity of your identity, or to set a new identity. Psychotherapy, drug therapy, physical therapy combined with comprehensive treatment measures, of which psychotherapy is particularly important. Psychotherapy: suggestive treatment, hypnotherapy, interpretive psychotherapy, analytical psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, family therapy.
Cause
Cause
The cause is unknown. Often under the sharp mental stimulation, the patient almost always runs away from the unsatisfactory residence, travels to other places, and the place of travel may be a place that is familiar and emotional in the past. At this time, the patient's consciousness is narrowed, but the daily basic life is (such as eating and drinking) ability and simple social contact (such as purchasing tickets, riding a car, asking for directions, etc.) still remain, others can not see the appearance of their words and deeds have obvious abnormalities, lasting tens of minutes to a few days, after waking up to the disease After being unable to recall or only a piece of memory.
Examine
an examination
Related inspection
Neurological examination of brain CT examination
In a new living environment, they will show a completely different identity, even a brand new identity. In addition, they performed very "normal" and showed no signs of mental disorder. They may not remember the past, or report some fictional memories, but they are not aware that they are wrong.
However, their new identity may not last. They don't show anomalies during the tour, they do things and think normally. When they suddenly recall the identity of the past, they will forget all the experiences during the tour.
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
Differential diagnosis of discrete roaming:
1. Separated amnesia: refers to the loss of personal memory caused by a huge trauma (such as a child or a job failure).
2, Separate Roaming: refers to sudden accidental departure from home or where they usually work, accompanied by the inability to recall their past and their own identity, or set a new identity.
3. Separate identity disorder: It means that two or more different identities exist on the same individual, and each identity has its own fairly complete life.
4, personality disintegration disorder: refers to the continuous or repeated experience of their own spiritual process or the body is separated suddenly and accidentally from home or their usual place to work, accompanied by the past can not recall their own and their identity is ambiguous , or set a new identity.
