Dissociative fugue:Epidemiology

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• Dissociative fugue: Incidence
• Dissociative fugue: Prevalence
• Dissociative fugue: Morbidity
• Dissociative fugue: Mortality
• Dissociative fugue: Racial distribution
• Dissociative fugue: Age distribution
• Dissociative fugue: Sex distribution

Prevalence and onset

It has been estimated that approximately 0.2 percent of the population experiences dissociative fugue, although prevalence increases significantly following a stressful life event, such as wartime experience or some other disaster. Other life stressors may trigger a fugue state, such as financial difficulties, personal problems or legal issues. Unlike a dissociative identity disorder, a fugue is usually considered to be a malingering disorder, resolving to remove the experiencer from responsibility for their actions, or from situations imposed upon them by others. In this sense, fugues seem to be the result of a repressed wish-fulfillment. Similar to dissociative amnesia, the fugue state usually affects personal memories from the past, rather than encyclopedic or abstract knowledge. A fugue state therefore does not imply any overt seeming or "crazy" behaviour.