The police find a man who is disheveled and in a daze wandering through the downtown area. When the police ask him for his name, he seems bewildered. A search of missing persons photographs reveals that this man was reported missing three months ago in a town more than 700 miles away. The man is most likely suffering from

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The symptoms described by the man (disheveled, in a daze, bewildered, unable to remember his own name) are consistent with dissociative fugue, which is a type of dissociative amnesia where a person forgets their past identity and may wander aimlessly or start a new life elsewhere. The fact that he was reported missing from a town 700 miles away further supports this diagnosis, as it suggests he may have fled his old life and ended up in the current location without any memory of how he got there. Schizophrenia, dissociative identity disorder, and depersonalization disorder involve different symptoms and are less likely to fit the above scenario.

The Police Find a Man Who Is Disheveled and in a Daze