Essay On Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), also known to most as Multiple Personality Disorder, is a psychological condition where a person possesses two or more identities. This disorder usually occurs in people who have suffered from a traumatic life event that they themselves might not be able to mentally deal with. DID is a very serious condition that unfortunately not many people are well informed about. This disorder is a little underrated because most people know very little about it and the little that they do know comes from T.V. shows and movies. Not only is there a lack of educational knowledge of the symptoms and the disorder itself, there is also a lack of knowledge on how it is treated. There are so many aspects of this disorder that are bypassed and overlooked and there is just so much to learn, not just about DID itself but the …show more content…
Anyone of these abusive and traumatizing events could be a cause of Dissociative Identity Disorder. DDI can be caused when a person has gone through a traumatic experience such as a loss of a parent, sexual abuse, and maybe even war or a natural disaster. The idea is that when a person goes through a distressing event in life that they cannot mentally handle, that person tends to check out. In “Recovering Identity: A Qualitative Investigation of a Survivor of Dissociative Identity Disorder,” Fox, Bell, Jacobson, and Hundley discuss how a person with DDI can consciously zone out when a situation is to overwhelming. They describe it as being an alteration of their own self-conscious. (Fox, Bell, Jacobson, Hundley, 2013, p.325) In other words the event in which they go through becomes some overwhelming to them that they zone out so that they do not have to deal with it. This is where the idea of the other personality comes in, when the person zones out a new personality is able to come into the spotlight to help the person cope with the