The hospice nurse notices that,following the death of his wife of 50 years,a surviving husband's affect is anxious,and he reports a feeling of detachment from his body,stating,"I feel like I am seeing myself from outside of my body." The caregiver knows that this client is displaying the characteristics of the dissociative disorder of:

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Depersonalization serves as a defense mechanism in response to severe anxiety.The person often is described as "working on automatic" or "functioning as a robot." The characteristics listed describe the behavioral or social signs and symptoms of depersonalized disorder.Fugue is characterized by traveling that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly with no recall of the traveling.Amnesia is the inability to remember personal information,and dissociative identity disorder was formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

The Hospice Nurse Notices That,following the Death of His Wife