Dissociative Amnesia Case Study

Dissociative amnesia isn’t a disorder that can be tamed with medication or short times off of work, the episodes are sporadic and uncontrollable making it difficult to carry out a stable career. Most patients will likely be able to follow basic rules and routines but remembering complex tasks and contacts will be next to impossible. However families, friends and peers can play an important role in treatment sessions by cuing and retelling stories from the patients past that may have got missed in the process of masking traumatic events. The support team should use these techniques with care and guidance from the therapist as reaching in the past to recall these stories may help bring negative memories to light and bring out supressed emotions
but may also assist in uncovering some of the reasons they lock their memories away in the first place