Lucy Adams Symptom Of Dissociative Disorders

Do you ever feel as though you are acting as a different person in different situations or you lose time in your day? You are not the only one feeling this way but, patients of dissociative disorders have it much worse. “I used to lose time and I thought I was going mad. I used to come home with all these bags and think, I didn't buy this stuff'”. This is a quote of Lucy Adams whose Identity is split into thirty six parts. She experiences this “loss of her day” everyday since childhood. Lucy is experiencing a symptom of dissociative disorder. According to the DSM dissociation is the separation of an idea or thought process from the individual ongoing consciousness or awareness. According to the American Psychiatric Association the DSM

is an Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Book by American Psychiatric Patients. Therefore it’s a book that allows doctors to diagnose and treat a patient with a mental disorder like dissociative disorders. These disorders were one of the first psychiatric conditions to be scientifically investigated by the nineteenth century pioneers of psychiatric medicine. Yet, the 1970’s and 1980’s many saw renewed scientific matter in the disorder due to more objective case studies and more composed investigations. Scientists saw dissociative disorders in as early as cave drawings. Dissociative disorders became attentive to others In 1791. The first in depth history of "exchanged personality" was written about a 20-year-old German woman who began to speak perfect French, behave like a French aristocrat and spoke German with a French accent. When she was the "French Woman" she remembered everything she did but as the "German Woman" she denied any knowledge of the "French Woman." She was experiencing the same symptom of Lucy. Today we know much more about this disorder but we still do not have a cure that makes the disorder disappear completely, causing patients to not have control over there everyday life.