AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -You can’t recall information about yourself or events and people in your life, especially from a traumatic time. Dissociative amnesia can be specific to events in a certain time, such as intense combat, or more rarely, can involve complete loss of memory about yourself.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dissociative amnesia is a disorder characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps. These gaps involve an inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dissociative amnesia is not the same as simple amnesia, which involves a loss of information from memory, usually as the result of disease or injury to the brain. With dissociative amnesia, the memories still exist but are deeply buried within the person’s mind and cannot be recalled.

Detailed explanation-4: -The experience of dissociation can result in different types of dissociative disorders, including dissociative identity disorder, depersonalization, derealization, and dissociative amnesia. However the dissociation manifests, the road to reconnection and recovery is a personal one for each of us.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dissociative amnesia is when a person can’t remember the details of a traumatic or stressful event, although they do realise they are experiencing memory loss. This is also known as psychogenic amnesia. This type of amnesia can last from a few days to one or more years.