Are people of every age at risk for dissociative disorders or is it only younger people?!

Dissociative disorders come about as a coping mechanism because of intense stress or severe trauma. Multiple personalities form when a child is young and their personality is not yet fully formed. usually due to repeated severe abuse, instead of one personality forming, many personalities form as a way of allowing the "core" personality to have a life free of the emotional pain associated with the abuse. Other dissociative disorders such as depersonalization of dissociative amnesia can happen at any time. Rape victims, car accident victims, natural disasters, panic attacks, etc.... can cause either of these. So multiple personalities can only form in childhood but the other dissociative disorders can occur at any age. The severity would be connected to the severity of the stress, not age.Health Question & Answer

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suffer from dissociative amnesia of my childhood and chronic depersonalization.Health Question & Answer

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Dementia's are usually found in older people, but I believe most everything else plays no favourites in who is afflicted with an illness or disorder. Even dementia is targetting the younger generations now as well. Personally I think the poor and the working poor are targeted more than those who have a good living. But again you will see many stars that have been struck down with mental illness and/or addictions. No one in my opinion is exempt from any disorder and it could happen at any time in their life. Take care and good mental healthHealth Question & Answer

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It may begins to show itself then, but many older people suffer from misdiagnosed mental illness too. And most of those diseases are with them for life.

I don't know the answer to your last question.Health Question & Answer

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