Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder ) By: Sarah Tripp
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This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its contents, please email the teacher, Laura Astorian: [email protected].
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): psychological disorder in which two or more identities, or personalities, exist in an individual that can each take over the conscious behavior of the individual at different periods of time
Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder
What is DID?
The Personalities
When under influence of one personality, the patient doesn’t recall events that occurred while in other personalities, behaving as a completely different person
Period of time controlled by a personality can range from an hour to five years
Each personality can have different characteristics (name, gender, physical attributes such as need for glasses)
Average number of alters (personalities): 10-13
The Personalities
First case in 1811 for Mary Reynolds and was documented by physician Samul Mitchel
Main early theorists of DID: Pierre Janet (explored unconscious and hypnosis), Morton Prince (explored relationship between physical and psychological parts of DID), and Boris Sidis (explored the role of neurons )
Became official disorder when added to DSM in 1980
Called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) in DSM-III but name changed to DID in DSM-IV
Brief History
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Subjects with DID usually unaware that they have it
Thought to be caused by sexual or physical abuse as a child
First development of an alter at an average age of 5.9 years, typically in childhood
The Beginning
Diagnosis
On average, patients have spend 7 years in medical care before coming to a final diagnosis
Four times as many women as men are diagnosed
Symptoms may be: obsessive compulsive behavior , eating disorders, depression, and drug abuse
Treatment
Main methods: hypnosis and psychotherapy
Therapy aims to stabilize the individual and have the alters unite into single personality (integration)
Therapy: therapist tries to effectively communicate with all alters
Tries to get personalities to meet one another and interact
Attempts to uncover traumatic events, retrieve methods, and make peace with them
No know medication available for treatment
{The Struggle and Emotions
What it is Like to Have DID
Loss of Identity
Too many thoughts. Too many emotions. So many people in my head.
Thought Overload
Crowding
Low Self-Esteem
Lost
Frustrated
Dark. Cold.
Fake
Confused
Loss of Time
Memory Gaps
Lost Opportunities
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