Dissociated 恍惚 state and attached state

Dissociative trance and possession (dissociative trance and possession): The trance state is manifested as a marked reduction in the scope of consciousness and the parties are in a self-closed state. Their attention and consciousness activities are limited to one or two aspects of the current environment, only in the environment Individual stimuli react, and the typical trance state is found in hypnosis, witchcraft or superstition activities when the caster interacts with "ghosts" and "gods", and certain qigongs, such as Hexiang piles, induce a state of addiction . A person in a trance state is called a possessed state if their identity is replaced by a god or a dead person who claims to be a god or a dead person. Dissociated maggot state and appendage state are involuntary and undesired pathological processes; the patient's movement, posture and speech are monotonous and repetitive. Those who can control the appearance or disappearance of such a state through others or self-suggestions are a kind of behavior related to a specific culture or superstition; although it is a phenomenon of separation of consciousness, it should not be diagnosed as a separation disorder.

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