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Dissociative Identity Disorder
1.
2. Abbreviated as DID
A rare mental
disturbance of one’s
identity that causes them
to have two or more
separate and distinct
personality states that
have the ability to
control the individual’s
behavior
Affects about 6-10% of
people in the United
States and 0.4% in China
BUT…
3. Before the 19th century,
people with
Dissociative Identity
Disorder were
considered to be
possessed
They were imprisoned
and treated very poorly
Lobotomy and
“exorcisms”
4. Researchers believe
that the main cause of
Dissociative Identity
Disorder is physical or
sexual abuse when the
individual was a child
They create the alters
to distance themselves
from the pain and
trauma
5. A person with
Dissociative Identity
Disorder can have 2
alters, or even 100
alters
The average person
suffering with DID has
10 alters
6. When any alter takes
over, the individual with
DID usually doesn’t
remember what
happened
Patients with DID often
complain about episodes
of time loss
Some patients might
have friends that they
don’t know, because an
alter has befriended
them
7. Multiple different
attitudes
Feeling of a loss of
time
Depression
Depersonalization
Flashbacks of
abuse/trauma
Sudden anger for no
reason
Panic attacks
Unexplainable phobias
8. When a child is The average age for
abused, researchers initial creation of alters
believe that they is 6 years old
develop the alters, Children who are
using dissociation as a developing DID are
defense usually quiet but have
They become other a short fuse and seem
people so that they to be different at times
believe the abuse isn’t
really happening to
them
9. DSM IV explains that the
diagnostic criteria for
SCID interview/testing
Dissociative Identity
Disorder is:
› 1. Disruption of identity
› 2. Inability to recall
important personal
information
› 3. Experiences distress
in social experiences
› 4.The disturbances
aren’t culturally
excepted, such as the
way people act when
intoxicated
10. The alters are like their
own people, they can
have very different
personalities, they can
even be a different
gender
An alter can take over
when the individual
sneezes, closes their
eyes for longer than a
blink, or rub their face
11. All the alters can be Some alters can be
different in one way or more aggressive
another towards the person’s
They can have environment or
different voices, towards the person’s
mannerisms, attitudes, other alters
thoughts and they can
speak differently
regarding sentence
structure
12. Some alters can have
allergies that their
“owner” doesn’t
Right-or-left
handedness
Need for eyeglass
prescription
Handwriting
Ages
13. Individual’s with DID
usually go to therapy
with hypnosis
Talking about and
dealing with the
memories of sexual or
physical abuse has a
large impact on
changing the alters
14. When the patient is
under hypnosis, the
therapist attempts to
contact all the alters
they can separately
Once the therapist
understands the roles
of each alter they try to
find the most
aggressive alter to
change their behavior
15. The therapist also
wants to find the alters
who have the
memories of the
trauma to try and help
them cope
Once the therapist
understands everyone,
they try to unify the
alters back to the
original individual,
getting rid of some of
the alters if possible
16. Herschel Walker was a Here he explains that
running back for the he wasn’t abused as a
Dallas Cowboys and child but he was
the Philadelphia bullied
Eagles
He doesn’t remember
winning the Heisman
Trophy
He wrote a book called
Breaking Free: My
Life with Dissociative
Identity Disorder
17. http://www.youtube.c She was born with
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FrJ48 which made her blind
36 years old, born
Diana but Margo took
over as the host alter
3 prominent alters out
of her 68
› Margo, 16
› Jackie, 21
› Corey, 4
18. 1. Schizophrenia is a 4. DID is usually caused
__________ disorder, by __________ and
unlike Dissociative _________ abuse
Identity Disorder, which when the individual is a
is a _____________ child.
and _____________
disorder.
5. Schizophrenia is
2. There is no _______ usually caused by the
for Schizophrenia, but individual’s _________
there are __________. make up and the
____________ they
3. People with were exposed to.
_________________
_ usually undergo
hypnosis and therapy.