Raval Chintan Madhusudan, Upadhyaya Sunnetkumar, Panchal Bharat Navinchandra
Department of Psychiatry, GMERS Medical College and Hospital, Patan, Gujarat, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2015 Jan-Jun;24(1):88-90. doi: 10.4103/0972-6748.160944.
Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder which has been described as sudden, unexpected, travel away from home or one's customary place of daily activities, with the inability to recall some or all of one's past. There is no systematic data existing on it and very few cases reported in the literature. Here we report a case of fugue in a young adult male who travelled 8 times away from his home during last 1½ year. He has a loss of memory for episodes with patchy recall of few events. Longest duration of fugue episode was of 1-month. The case describes mode of presentation to hospital and treatment given to restore his identity and reunite him in society and family.
解离性神游症是一种罕见的病症,其被描述为突然、意外地离家或离开日常活动的惯常场所,且无法回忆起部分或全部过去经历。目前尚无关于它的系统性数据,文献中报道的病例也非常少。在此,我们报告一例年轻成年男性的神游症病例,该患者在过去1年半的时间里8次离家出行。他对这些经历存在记忆缺失,仅有零星的几件事能部分回忆起来。神游症发作的最长持续时间为1个月。该病例描述了其就医表现以及为恢复其身份并使其回归社会和家庭所给予的治疗。