Clinical term? Psychological term?

**Posts:** 1 · by **gianthead** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:45 am

I have two questions that I can't find the answers for. Looks like I'll have to ask a psychologist.

1) What is the psychological or clinical term for a "black out" and a "mental block"

2) What is it called when somebody is in a "blacked out" state? For example, one might say "I blacked out most of elementary school" -- well what is that blackout state called?

3) If somebody was so far out of reality and so far in denial, would there be a name for that?

If you could list all of the names you can think of for the above and any similar conditions that would also help a lot.

**Posts:** 14140 · by **jurplesman** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:50 am

gianthead wrote:I have two questions that I can't find the answers for. Looks like I'll have to ask a psychologist.

1) What is the psychological or clinical term for a "black out" and a "mental block"

2) What is it called when somebody is in a "blacked out" state? For example, one might say "I blacked out most of elementary school" -- well what is that blackout state called?

3) If somebody was so far out of reality and so far in denial, would there be a name for that?

If you could list all of the names you can think of for the above and any similar conditions that would also help a lot.

I perfectly understand what you mean by "back out". Why invent a fancy "psychological" term for it. Be aware of psychological jargon. They don't mean much, except if you want to impress the uninitiated.

**Posts:** 9885 · by **Candid** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:47 pm

1) What is the psychological or clinical term for a "black out" and a "mental block"

These are different things. A blackout typically implies loss of consciousness. A mental block usually means the person can't access certain information because s/he doesn't want to.

2) What is it called when somebody is in a "blacked out" state? For example, one might say "I blacked out most of elementary school" -- well what is that blackout state called?

That's blanked out rather than blacked out. "I've blanked it out" (because it's too painful to recall).

3) If somebody was so far out of reality and so far in denial, would there be a name for that?

Psychosis means out of touch with 'reality'. Whatever that is!

Clinical term? Psychological term?

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