Many patients who are treated for DID also have had severe childhood trauma as well as have comorbid PTSD or comorbid borderline personality disorder. Dr. Richard P. Kluft, looks into a child’s perspective with dissociative identity disorder. He describes that as an effort to find how to preserve important relationships, such as the parent to child relationship, with positivity, hope, and safety, the child becomes overwhelmed and desperate. Thus, the child creates fantasies that he or she can turn to which then modify what their mind cannot accept. “An aspect of this adaptation is the development of alternate identities and selves that act in accordance with theses adaptive fantasies.” (Kluft, 634). Dr. Kluft also explains that a person who
