Carson recently lost his job and has a great debt due to gambling.He also has been feeling extreme pressure about not being able to take care of his eight children.After he was robbed at gunpoint on the street, but was not physically hurt, Carson could not tell the officer his name, address, or anything about his past.Carson is experiencing a

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Carson's inability to remember his name, address, or past after a traumatic event (being robbed at gunpoint) is characteristic of dissociative amnesia, which involves a disruption of memory caused by stress, trauma, or other psychological factors. This may be exacerbated by his current stressors of job loss and debt, as well as his feeling of being overwhelmed by the responsibility of caring for eight children. Dissociative identity disorder involves the presence of multiple distinct personalities within an individual, and psychosomatic conversion disorder and somatic symptom disorder involve physical symptoms that are either unconsciously or consciously linked to psychological factors, neither of which appear to be the case here.

Carson Recently Lost His Job and Has a Great Debt