Trauma Response Terminology

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noun fugue: a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment

  • The patient experienced a dissociative fugue, during which they traveled to a different city without any recollection of their identity.
  • My friend went through a dissociative fugue and ended up in a town three hours away from home!
  • I heard she had a total dissociative fugue and woke up in a random place with no idea how she got there.
  • Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dissociative fugue, lost in my own thoughts and disconnected from reality.