Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), also known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is a mood disorder where an individual's behavior is controlled by two or more distinct personality states. Symptoms include split identities, memory variations between personalities, mood swings, and hallucinations. Causes are believed to involve childhood trauma, and treatment focuses on psychotherapy, medication, and hypnosis to stabilize and unite the personalities. People with DID experience confusion, loss of identity and memory, anger, depression, and frustration due to unpredictable personality changes.
2. What is it?
•AKA Multiple Personality Disorder
•Mood Disorder
•Multiple Personality Disorder is a disorder
where the individual’s behavior is controlled by
two or more separate & distinct personality states
•It is a disturbance in identity
3. Symptoms
•Split Identities
•unable to recall key personal information
•memory variations with each personality
•mood swings, suicidal tendencies
•sleep disorders, anxiety/panic attacks/phobias,
4. Many people start to suffer
from depression
Individuals suffering from DID
start to experience psychotic-like
symptoms, including auditory
and visual hallucinations
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Personalities
The different identities have their own age, race,
and sex
They also have their own way of talking
The personalities can be animals or imaginary
people
Types:
the host, the protector, the rational one, the
angry one, the sexual one, the kids, the
suicidal
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6. Causes
• No proven specific cause
• Psychological theory: Believe that
condition develops as reaction to childhood
trauma
Having a family member with DID can
increase the risk
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7. Treatment
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Psychotherapy is the best treatment-try to help
clients improve relationships with others
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Expose them to things they have not been
comfortable with in the past-prevents the patient
from anxiety
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Try to stabilize the patient and unite all the
personalities
8. Treatment
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Psychologists also use hypnosis-allows the patient
to have a greater control when they change
personalities because they know more about their
symptoms
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Medications-used to treat depression, anxiety,
anger, and impulse-control problem
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When psychotherapy and medication is not
enough, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be
used
9. Treatment
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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
(EMDR)-incorporates traumatic memories with
patient’s resources-is used as welll
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helps with information processing & healing
10. Famous People with
DID
• Herschel Walker-former NFL running back
• disorder almost drove him to suicide
• has been in treatment for a while, and
says the disorder is under control
11. Complications of DID
• People with DID can end up abusing
alcohol or other substances in order to deal
with the disorder
• Poor relationships
• Inability to maintain employment
• Violent behavior-may lead to suicide
12. Prevention
• The only thing that can be done to prevent a
person from developing dissociative
identity disorder is to keep them away from
abusive families
• Children should also be treated as early as
possible
14. Confusion
• I am very confused, especially when all of a
sudden I become a new person. I do not get it
at all.
15. Loss of Identity
• I feel as if I do not who I am. I have
completely changed as a person.
16. No Confidence
• I do not have any confidence in doing
anything anymore. My self-esteem is so low.
I feel as though I am worthless.
17. Anger
• I feel angry a lot of times. I do not have a
reason to be angry but I am. Because of this
relationships are very hard for me
18. Loss of Memory
• I often forget many things that happened in
the past. It is very frustrating.
19. Depressed
• Sometimes I do not want anything to do with
anyone. I just want to be left alone. I hate
life.
20. • Having dissociative identity disorder is very
frustrating. You never know when you are
going to change personalities. You can
easily go from being depressed to anger to
happy. It is all so confusing. However,
therapy does help
