Hello and welcome to the Zero to Finals podcast.

My name is Tom and in this episode I'm going to be talking to you about distinctive psychiatric disorders and syndromes.

And you can find written notes on this topic at 0.0.5.com slash distinctive disorders

or in the psychiatry section of the 0 to finals more medicine book. And you can find flashcards

and questions to train your knowledge and help you remember the information for longer at members.0 tofinals.com.

So let's get straight into it.

Let's start by talking about dissociative disorders.

Normally, people experience their consciousness, body, perceptions, memories, identity and emotions as connected and integrated.

Dissociative symptoms involve a sense of disruption to how these things fit together.

They often occur in response to stress or a traumatic event and they can last anywhere from a few minutes to many years.

There are three types of dissociative disorder which we're going to talk about in more detail.

However, dissociative symptoms can occur in other conditions such as borderline personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Depersonalization De-realization disorder involves depersonalization, which is a feeling of being

separated or outside of their body, as well as de-realization, which is a feeling that the world is not real.

Dissociative amnesia involves forgetting autobiographical information, meaning details about themselves

and events that have happened to them,

typically following a traumatic experience and leading to gaps in their memory.

Dissociative identity disorder, which was previously called multiple personality disorder,

involves a lack of a clear individual identity, with multiple separate identities with unique names, personalities and memories. It is often associated with severe

stress and trauma in childhood. Next, let's talk about catatonia.

Catatonia involves abnormal movement, communication and behavior.

It can present in various ways.

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