Dissociative Amnesia with Dissociative Fugue and Psychosis: aCase Report from a 25-Year-Old Ethiopian Woman

The case after exposure to intense traumatic events manifests signs and symptoms of dissociative amnesia with adissociative fugue and schizophrenia. The psychotic symptoms we found, in this case, were very complicated and mimickingprimary psychotic disorders. Therefore, this might be a good forum for the scientific world to learn from this case report, howpsychotic disorders coexist with dissociative disorders, since the literatures in this area are too rare.Main Symptoms and/orImportant Clinical Findings. This case report focuses on the case of dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue and psychosis ina 25-year-old Ethiopian female who lost her husband and three children at the same time during the nearby ethnic conflict.Associated with amnesia, she lost entire autobiographical information, and she also had psychotic symptoms like delusions andauditory hallucination which is related to the traumatic event she faced.The Main Diagnoses,Therapeutic Interventions,andOutcomes. The diagnosis of dissociative amnesia with a dissociative fugue comorbid with schizophrenia was made, and bothpharmacological and psychological interventions were given to the patient. After the intervention, the patient had a slightimprovement regarding psychotic symptoms but her memory problem was not restored.Conclusions. The observation in thiscase report brings to the fore that individuals with dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue can have psychotic symptoms,and it takes a longer time to recover from memory disturbances