This document discusses dissociative disorders, including describing their key characteristics as involving a disconnection from thoughts, memories, identity, and surroundings; listing their main types as dissociative identity disorder, dissociative amnesia, and depersonalization/derealization disorder; and noting that dissociative disorders are often associated with previous trauma and can be characterized by symptoms like amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, and identity confusion. It also briefly discusses the role of nutrition in mental health and dissociative disorders.

1. DISSOCIATIVE
DISORDER

2. objectives
 After completion of this presentation, students will be able to:
 Describe dissociative disorder
 Types of DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER
 Diet in DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER

3.  Dissociative disorders are mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection
and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions and
identity.
 People with dissociative disorders escape reality in ways that are involuntary and
unhealthy and cause problems with functioning in everyday life.
 Dissociative disorders are frequently associated with previous experience of trauma.
DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER

4. Sign of dissociative disorder
 Some of the symptoms of dissociation include the following.
 Amnesia - This means memory loss. ...
 Depersonalization - Feeling disconnected from your own body.
 Decreolization - Feeling disconnected from the world around you.
 Identity confusion - You might not have a sense of who you are.
 Examples of dissociative symptoms include the experience of detachment or feeling as if one
is outside one's body, and loss of memory or amnesia.

5. Types of dissociative disorder
 There are three types of dissociative disorders:
 Dissociative identity disorder.
 Dissociative amnesia.
 Depersonalization/decreolization disorder.

6. Dissociative disorder and nutrition
 The role of nutrition in mental health is becoming increasingly acknowledged.
 Along with dietary intake, nutrition can also be obtained from “nutrient
supplements”, such as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), vitamins, minerals,
antioxidants, amino acids and pre/probiotic supplements.
 Folate‐based supplements were widely researched as adjunctive treatments for
depression and schizophrenia.

7. conclusion
 According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4 out of the
10 leading causes of disability in the US and other developed countries are mental
disorders.
 Food deprivation and exposure to a Stressor both influence spatial performance.
These effects may not be independent, because stress changes eating and body
weight.
 Essential vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids are often deficient in patients
suffering from mental disorders.

8. Reference
 Kihlstrom JF (2005), University of California, annual revive of clinical psychology, vol1:
227.253 Dissociative disorders
 Surinder Nand (2007), Encyclopedia of Governance (2007) Dissociative disorder
 James Nairne (1991), Dissociative Effects of Generation on Item and Order Retention
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · August 1991

9. Reference
 Natalia Seijo (2015), Newsletter 2015 (Vol. 4) Eating disorders and dissociation
 Katherine A. Miller & Nancy K. Dess (1996), Dissociation of stress and food-
deprivation effects on spatial performance
 Shaheen E Lakhan and Karen F Vieira (2008), nutritional therapies for mental
disorders
 Brecht Verstichel, Helen van Aggelen, Dimitri Van Neck, Paul W. Ayers and Patrick
Bultinck (2018), Subsystem constraints in variational second order density matrix
optimization

10. Thank you
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