The nurse is caring for a patient who has been diagnosed with a dissociative disorder after being missing for two weeks and returning home, not knowing any time had passed. The nurse recognizes the patient is experiencing which condition associated with dissociative disorders?

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1. Individuals with dissociative fugue wander, usually far from home and for days, perhaps even weeks or months, at a time. During this period, patients completely forget their past life and associations, but unlike people with amnesia, they are unaware of having forgotten anything. Individuals do not recall the fugue period when they return to consciousness. Alexithymia is the inability to label feelings with words. Derealization is the experience of unreality or detachment from the individual's surroundings.

The Nurse Is Caring for a Patient Who Has Been