Millie feels as if she were a robot,watching herself from outside her body as she begins kissing her new boyfriend.This feeling of being in a dream or operating on "automatic pilot" happens to her whenever she begins to get emotionally aroused.She appears to be suffering from ________.

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Millie is experiencing depersonalization/derealization disorder, where she feels detached from herself and her surroundings. This can be triggered by emotional arousal. Dissociative identity disorder and dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue involve more extreme disruptions of memory and identity. Conversion disorder involves physical symptoms without a medical explanation.

Millie Feels as If She Were a Robot,watching Herself from Outside