Conditions involving disruption of the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception.
Persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization (detachment from one's own thoughts, feelings, body, or actions, as if an outside observer) and/or derealization (detachment from surroundings, as if the world is unreal or dreamlike), with intact reality testing throughout.
An inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting and not attributable to a substance or a neurological/medical condition; may include a specifier for dissociative fugue, involving apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering associated with amnesia for identity or other important autobiographical information.
A disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states (or an experience of possession, in some cultural contexts), involving marked discontinuity in sense of self and agency, accompanied by recurrent gaps in recall of everyday events, personal information, and/or traumatic events beyond ordinary forgetting.
A residual classification for presentations with dissociative symptoms (disruption in identity, memory, consciousness, or perception) causing clinically significant distress or impairment that do not meet full criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia, or Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder.
Recognize identity disturbance due to prolonged coercive persuasion as a recognized example of Other Specified Dissociative Disorder.
Recognize Dissociative Identity Disorder's pattern of distinct identity states and recurrent amnesia, distinguished from Borderline Personality Disorder's identity disturbance and from PTSD's dissociative symptoms.
Recognize Dissociative Amnesia as a standalone memory disturbance, distinguished from Dissociative Identity Disorder's broader identity fragmentation.
Recognize Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder's persistent detachment with intact reality testing, distinguished from DID and from panic-attack-limited dissociation.