People who have had truly painful or traumatic experiences and develop amnesia that is too complete to be explained by normal forgetting are diagnosed with __________.

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Dissociative amnesia is characterized by an inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. It does not involve the creation of new identities or the physical flight from one's life that are seen in dissociative identity disorder and dissociative fugue, respectively. Avoidant personality disorder involves a pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation, not amnesia.

People Who Have Had Truly Painful or Traumatic Experiences and Develop