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Trauma can come in many forms.  In can be small, incidious and repeats over and over again for years (the little "t" traumas).  Or it can be large and can take over your life (the big "T" Trauma).  Small traumas are ones that we no longer count as trauma, such as small but repetitive comments from a parent regarding their looks while growing up, or having to deal with silent violence of neglect.  The big traumas are the ones that are easily identified and often treated app...

ADHD is one of the disorders under the Pervasive Developmental Disorders category. This is a disorder of childhood, which means that the development of symptoms is usually in one's childhood and not in adulthood. Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder or Personality disorders are often misdiagnosed as ADHD, which can have detrimental results for the misdiagnosed individual.

Symptoms of ADHD do not suddenly appear in adulthood. They ar...

Depersonalization Disorder

Depersonalization disorder is characterized by persistent or recurring experiences of feeling detached from and/or as if the individual is an outside observer of, his/her mental processes or body. It is often referred to as dissociative episode and individuals that do experience this describe it as leaving one's body and watching events happen from above or feeling ...

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, this particular dissociative disorder became infamous through Hollywood. Movies such as 3 faces of Eve and Sybil put DID on the map of public consciousness. DID's primary characteristic is that the individual presents with two or more distinct identities or personality states, most often each with its own way of p...

Dissociative Fugue

Formerly known as psychogenic fugue, individuals with this disorder primarily present with sudden and unexpected travel away from their home or work, with inability to recall his/her past. They show significant confusion about their personal identity (can't remember name, age, or what they did before the fugue episode), or assume a totally or partially new identity. ...

Dissociative Amnesia

Formerly known as psychogenic amnesia, it is predominantly characterized by episodes of inability to recall personal information, most often related to events that are traumatic or stressful in nature. But such inability to recall is too significant to attribute to ordinary forgetfulness. Such amnesic episodes cause clinical significant distress ...

Overview of Dissociative Disorders

Three faces of Eve, Sybil, and Raising Cain are movies that made dissociative disorders, specifically dissociative identity disorder, on the map of public mental illness consciousness.

Dissociative disorders are named as such because they are marked by a dissociation from or ...

Cluster C Personality Disorders

Cluster C has three types of disorders. They all have a quality to their symptom criteria that it is an underlying and pervasive patterns of behaviors and is not related to or a symptoms of mood, anxiety, or thought disorders.

Cluster B Personality Disorders

Cluster B has four types of disorders. They all have a quality to their symptom criteria that it is an underlying and pervasive patterns of behaviors and is not related to or a symptoms of mood, anxiety, or thought disorders.

Cluster A Personality Disorder

As stated in the previous blog, personality disorders have 3 subcategories. Today, I will discuss the first of the three, Cluster A Personality disorders.

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