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Dissociative disorders are highly prevalent mental illnesses. Making up roughly 5 to 10% of psychiatric patients, these disorders are caused by events associated with trauma. These disorders have only been studied through clinical experiences and case studies. Through these studies, however, treatments specialized for each case such as psychotherapy, hypnosis, and medications have shown to be helpful in curing patients with dissociative disorders.

Dissociative Identity Disorder
DID has been studied over many years often through case studies. The phasic trauma treatment model is a useful approach to treating DID patients according to its positive outcomes. According to tests that have been conducted for this model, improvements in various conditions such as depression and anxiety have resulted. The phasic model has stages that a patient can progress through in the treatment: All DID patients can improve in their mental health with treatment no matter how severe their specific condition is. Interventions and therapy have positively influenced many mental illnesses, reducing those including "dissociation, PTSD, distress, depression, hospitalizations, suicide attempts, self-harm, dangerous behaviors, drug use and physical pain." Early diagnosis and treatment are essential to improving the health of DID patients. This will help prevent revictimisation in patients. Improvement is more likely to occur in patients as long as necessary measures are taken at the right time.
 * Stage 1: This stage pushes patients to find a form of safety and assurance for their lives.
 * Stage 2: This stage emphasizes the need to handle stressful situations. Patients are required to learn how to cope with traumatic scenarios given to them before moving on to the next stage.
 * Stage 3: The last stage focuses on a patient's distance from dissociation and how he or she can maintain a healthy lifestyle independently. In this final stage, DID patients should be able to handle traumatic situations well that they once could not.

Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative Amnesia, known as the most prevalent dissociative disorder, increases in severity with more traumatic experiences. Amnesia is difficult to identify in children; however, treatment in a person's adult life can be effective to his or her health. For dissociative amnesia, most treatment methods developed during wartime. The stressful experiences from war caused increased dissociation and amnesia in soldiers, and the frequent PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, that resulted led to amnesia in many soldiers. Soldiers often went through therapy, which made them believe they were in a safe environment. Treating amnesia patients requires support and the capability of making the patient feel "physically and psychologically safe" (Nathan, 471). Through case studies researchers have found steps that can aid in recovery for patients with dissociative amnesia. The first step to treating dissociative disorders is to ensure that the patient's amnesia is dissociative-based and not a result of a fugue state. After that, doctors can treat a patient, determining the aggressiveness of the treatment according to the severity of the patient's condition. Those with acute amnesia generally require a stronger treatment than those with chronic amnesia. This amnesia can offset other mental issues such as substance abuse, anxiety, violence, etc., therefore, patients must be given the feeling that they are in a safe environment at the beginning of treatment. Although the efficiency of hypnosis is unknown, this method is one of the most popular ways of causing recollection in patients. After recovering from dissociative amnesia, patients should begin to focus on why the disorder occurred, paying close attention to the traumatic events that caused it as well as learning how to take preventative measures for the future. These steps to therapy ensure improvement for people who suffer from dissociative amnesia.

Dissociative Fugue
Similar to most other dissociative disorders, dissociative fugue, also known as psychogenic fugue, results from traumatic events. Dissociative fugue was initially considered a separate type of dissociative disorder; however, because of its similarities with dissociative amnesia, they are now grouped as the same disorder. This disorder and its treatments have not been studied thoroughly as a separate entity, yet researchers have seen the use of hypnosis and psychodynamic approaches to be helpful in the recovery of patients with the illness. Treatment through medication has no effect on dissociative fugue. Patients suffering from dissociative fugue must learn to accept that they are in a safe environment and trust the people in their lives. Patients initially focus on trying to remember their identity and understanding the causes of their condition. Psychodynamic therapy is useful in helping patients come to terms with traumatic experiences. Doctors must work quickly with patients to see full effects of recovery for dissociative fugue.

Depersonalized Disorder
Depersonalized disorder has not been studied as thoroughly in the past as other dissociative disorders have. This disorder is not as prevalent as dissociative identity disorder and dissociative amnesia, and therefore, historical treatments for this disorder are absent. Recent studies have shown that techniques using "paradoxical intention, record keeping and positive reward, flooding, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoeducation, psychostimulants, anti-depressants, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, benzodiazepines, and electroconvulsive therapy" are useful in recovering gradually from depersonalization. Patients, specifically 70%, have seen the best improvements in depersonalization health due to the use of serotonin repute inhibitors. They are taught to self-hypnotize in order to recall hidden memories and reassociate things.