dissociative disorder
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- noun
- /ˌdɪsəʊˈʃiːətɪv dɪsˈɔːrdər/
- Specialized
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trastorno disociativo
- People with dissociative disorder often have related problems of time distortions.
- Talking about dissociative disorder
Examples
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After a thorough evaluation, the psychiatrist diagnosed him with dissociative disorder, explaining how it affected his sense of self.
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I have a dissociative disorder.
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Just make sure you get a therapist who has experience in dissociative disorders so you can be properly diagnosed.
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A central problem for people who have a dissociative disorder is that parts of the personality avoid each other and their painful memories and experiences, or they tend to have strong conflicts with each other.
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When people with a dissociative disorder are alienated from their body, they may be insensitive to physical pain or lack sensation in parts of their body.
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Most people with a dissociative disorder who experienced childhood trauma will have parts of personality that experience themselves as younger than the person's actual age: adolescents, child parts of primary school, or even toddler and infant parts.
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At the other end of the continuum are a cluster of dissociative disorders, such as dissociative amnesia, that can occur in response to severe psychological trauma such as rape or military combat.
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Kezelman described herself as suffering from dissociative disorder, which caused her to feel disconnected from her memories.
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It's important to find a specialist who understands the complexities of dissociative disorder for proper treatment.
Synonyms
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A health condition in which the body or mind do not work normally
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A condition that causes problems with thinking, feeling, or behaving
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A mental problem when one person acts like two or more different people with different memories and behaviour
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A condition that changes a person's thoughts, feelings, or behavior and causes problems in life
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A mental state in which a person feels separated from themselves or their memories
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A mental state where part of a person's memory or feelings feels separate
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A person feels detached from themselves and their identity
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A long feeling of not being real and watching yourself from outside
A long-lasting feeling of being detached from yourself and from who you are, often with numb emotions
Antonyms
How Dissociated
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is fully compositional: the adjective 'dissociative' denotes detachment of mental processes and 'disorder' denotes a diagnosed condition, so together they denote a mental condition characterized by dissociation. This follows a regular modifier+noun pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings should be able to infer the MWE meaning (aside from the technical register).
Etymology
The term dissociative disorder comes from a simple image: the word dissociate means 'to separate', so it is like parts of a person's mind — memory, feelings, or identity — coming apart like pieces of a torn photo. That's why dissociative disorder means a condition where memory, identity, or the 'sense of self' are split and do not fit together.