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    Dissociative Identity Disorder was known as personality disorder, is a condition in which a person's identity is divided into two or more identities or personality. The individuals may or may not have any information about the two or more identities. People with this rare condition are often victims of severe abuse (Rathus, 2013). Dissociative Amnesia is defined as a type of disorder when individuals suddenly are unable to recall very essential information which is usually not forgotten by…

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    Dissociative Identity Disorder affects less than 200,000 people in the United States, this disorder is very rare. Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder or DID, is a disease that is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states. In this blog, I will be elucidating the affects DID has on the human body. The reason for this disorder is often times due to a traumatic event. These events generally occur during childhood. They’re…

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    D.I.D. Dissociative Identity Disorder Armando Montero May 12, 2018 Instructor: Will Myers PSY101 Abstract Dissociative identity disorder better known as multiple personality disorder is a condition in which a person has two or more distinct identities, or personalities that take over an individual. Other symptoms may include memory loss, a sense of being detached from self and emotions. Mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and behavior. These are all symptoms but,…

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    Dissociative Identity Disorder There are many disorders in the world, but one of the less common ones is dissociative identity disorder or also formerly known as multiple personalities. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a failure to integrate various aspects of a person’s identity, which can cause a person to put their different personalities into two or more identities. There are many factors that contribute to dissociative identity disorder such as the causes, symptoms, diagnosing the disorder…

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    Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) formally known as multiple personality is defined by both classification systems as the existences of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of an individual’s behavior so that he/she has an inability to recall certain memories or important personal information (Kneisl & Trigoboff, 2013). The DSM-5 committee proposes applying the term “distinct personality states or an experienceof possession” instead of “distinct…

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    Introduction Momentary absences of attention, long periods of non-responsiveness, coma-like states. These trances, otherwise known as “black-outs”, are just a fraction of the symptoms accompanied by Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) (Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 2004). DID is a dissociative mental disorder, that “stems from severe abuse at the hands of a caregiver” (Hart, 2013, p. 304). Despite the fact that childhood DID appears to be a particularly rare phenomenon (Boysen, 2011),…

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    that can’t be escaped. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a disorder that can be described as, “Two or more distinct identities or personality states are present, each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to and thinking about the environment and self” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In simpler terms, DID is having two or more distinct personalities in one individual, altering turns…

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    that 1% of the population is affected by dissociative identity disorder. DID is a psychological disorder in which a person's personality is split into two or more specific personality states. People with DID fail to organize multiple aspects of identity, memory, and consciousness into a single compound self. DID is hard to diagnose because the symptoms are easily mistaken for other mental health disorders. The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder requires both medical and psychiatric…

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    Diagnosing someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder or what we call DID for short can be very complex and difficult at times. DID is know previously as Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD for short. This has been characterized as having at least two or more different and distinctive personalities outside of the person’s normal personality and social and cultural norms. However, multiple personality disorder did not end up being a diagnosis until the 1800s but even then it did not actually…

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    Multiple Personality Disorder is now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder. It has many symptoms but few criteria to fit into this disorder, and vast amounts of testing done to diagnose a patient. D.I.D. is when two or more different personalities reside in an individual's mind. The different personality may have completely different genders, behavior, sexuality, accents, and mannerisms, and they may believe they have lived lives that do not exist. Victims of this disorder have reported up to…

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