


Both acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder contain dissociative symptoms, such as amnesia, flashbacks, numbness, and depersonalization/derealization.

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5), dissociative disorders are placed alongside trauma, but not part of the trauma, and disorders associated with stressors, show a close relationship between diagnosis classes. Only trance disorders that are involuntary or unwanted, and that appear in ordinary activities, which arise outside (or are a continuation of), religious activities or events that can be accepted by the culture, which may be included here (Code F44.3), and classified in the type of dissociative disorder. Attention and alertness are limited or focused on one or two aspects that exist in the environment and often movements, body positions and expressions of words are also limited and repeated. Trance and possession disorders are disorders that indicate a temporary loss of appreciation of self-identity and awareness of the environment in some instances, the individual behaves as if possessed by other personalities, supernatural powers, angels or other “powers”.
