Dissociative Disorder Quiz

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

• Two or more distinct personality states (alters) with unique behaviors, voices, memories.

• Recurrent memory gaps for personal information or everyday events.

• Alters may differ in age, gender, abilities, or even species.

  Switching is often stress- or trauma-induced.

• Not due to substance use or medical condition.

Host

Primary identity

Child Alters

Represent vulnerable states

Protector Alters

Defend against trauma

Persecutor Alters

Self-destructive or aggressive

Opposite-Gender or Non-Human Alters

Unusual traits or identities

Amok (Malaysia)

Dissociative rage state

Possession States

Present in some cultures; only pathological if distressing, involuntary, and outside cultural norms

Dissociative Amnesia

• Inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually related to trauma or stress.

• Memory loss is too extensive to be explained by normal forgetting.

• Dissociative Fugue (Specifier): Unexpected travel away from home, possible new identity, amnesia for the past.

Localized Amnesia

No memory for events in a specific time frame

Selective Amnesia

Memory gaps for parts of traumatic event

Generalized Amnesia

Complete loss of personal identity

Systematized Amnesia

Memory loss for a specific person or category

Continuous Amnesia

Ongoing memory loss from a certain point forward

Depersonalization

• Detachment from self, as if observing oneself

• Thoughts and emotions feel "not mine"

• Body may feel foreign or unreal

Derealization

• World appears dreamlike, foggy, or artificial

• Distortions in perception (visual or auditory)

Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder

• Persistent or recurrent symptoms

• Reality testing remains intact (they know something is wrong)

• Causes distress or functional impairment