Ned seeks therapy after having recurrent episodes of feeling "detached from himself" for several months,but he has not lost his self-awareness or memory.He notes that he feels like a robot,disconnected from his movements and actions.He is most likely suffering from:

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Ned is suffering from depersonalization, which is a dissociative disorder that involves feelings of detachment from oneself or a sense of being an outside observer of oneself. It is characterized by a subjective experience of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one's thoughts, feelings, sensations, body, or actions. Dissociative fugue involves sudden, unexpected travel away from one's home or usual place of daily activities with inability to recall some or all of one's past and confusion or loss of one's identity or the assumption of a new identity. Conversion disorder involves the presence of symptoms or deficits affecting voluntary motor or sensory function, inconsistent with known medical conditions, that are not better explained by another medical or mental disorder, but often coincide with stress or conflict. Dissociative identity disorder involves the presence of two or more distinct personality states or an experience of possession, accompanied by marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, and is not a likely diagnosis for Ned based on the information provided.

Ned Seeks Therapy After Having Recurrent Episodes of Feeling "Detached