Dissociative and personality disorders are common among the realm of patients who experience mental illness. These is often associated with a sense of being detached from oneself, perception of people and things being distorted, having a blurred sense of identity, having dysfunctional relationships, or being emotionally unstable. Unlike borderline personality disorder, however, dissociative identity disorder is quite rare. Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formally known as multiple personality disorder, is characterized as the presence of two or more personalities within one individual. Each individual identity is referred to as an alter. Each alter within the person may have differing genders, race, likes, dislike’s, gestures, and mannerisms.
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Of that 1,642, only 0.4%, or 6.5 people, displayed DID (SAR, 2011) Client A.S. is someone who is believed to experience DID. She presented to the Mundy 3 unit with a history of dissociative identity disorder (DID) and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a “pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions” (Psych Central Staff, 2014). People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive, often times demonstrating self-injurious behaviors like burning, cutting, attempting suicide, or engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Research shows that patients with DID and BPD often have a mood disorder such as depression or bipolar disorder. Client A.S experiences multiple alters and time of depression. She also has hallucinations, both visual and tactile. She listed herself as having many alters including “animal, thief, pedophile, brave, strong, calm, child-like, the mature one, the other me, and the one who declares she is the new me.” She was admitted to the hospital after a session with her …show more content…
claims that she experienced sexual abuse from her brother when she was around eight or nine years of age. However, this has not been verified nor does the brother admit to such action. It is possible that she perceives or remembers it to be her brother in order to cope with reality or truth that is was a stranger or another member of her family. Further, there is no family history of mental illness, so this must stem from trauma of some sort or abnormalities in the brain. One particular physician believes that she is pretending to have DID in order to gain attention. Those with borderline personality disorders are at risk for impulsivity, identity diffusion, and affective instability. It is possible that she is experiencing identity diffusion instead of true multiple personality disorder. This is the failure to “integrate various childhood identifications into a harmonious adult psychosocial identity” (Kneisl & Triggoboff, 2014). These clients struggle with “chameleon-like” behavior because they are constantly changing their actions and attitude to mimic the behavior of those around them. For borderline individuals, it is an intense fear of rejection, possibly stemming from a child-hood trauma, that causes the to say things and behave in a manner that will award them popularity or gain them special
Of that 1,642, only 0.4%, or 6.5 people, displayed DID (SAR, 2011) Client A.S. is someone who is believed to experience DID. She presented to the Mundy 3 unit with a history of dissociative identity disorder (DID) and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a “pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions” (Psych Central Staff, 2014). People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive, often times demonstrating self-injurious behaviors like burning, cutting, attempting suicide, or engaging in risky sexual behaviors. Research shows that patients with DID and BPD often have a mood disorder such as depression or bipolar disorder. Client A.S experiences multiple alters and time of depression. She also has hallucinations, both visual and tactile. She listed herself as having many alters including “animal, thief, pedophile, brave, strong, calm, child-like, the mature one, the other me, and the one who declares she is the new me.” She was admitted to the hospital after a session with her …show more content…
claims that she experienced sexual abuse from her brother when she was around eight or nine years of age. However, this has not been verified nor does the brother admit to such action. It is possible that she perceives or remembers it to be her brother in order to cope with reality or truth that is was a stranger or another member of her family. Further, there is no family history of mental illness, so this must stem from trauma of some sort or abnormalities in the brain. One particular physician believes that she is pretending to have DID in order to gain attention. Those with borderline personality disorders are at risk for impulsivity, identity diffusion, and affective instability. It is possible that she is experiencing identity diffusion instead of true multiple personality disorder. This is the failure to “integrate various childhood identifications into a harmonious adult psychosocial identity” (Kneisl & Triggoboff, 2014). These clients struggle with “chameleon-like” behavior because they are constantly changing their actions and attitude to mimic the behavior of those around them. For borderline individuals, it is an intense fear of rejection, possibly stemming from a child-hood trauma, that causes the to say things and behave in a manner that will award them popularity or gain them special