Dissociative Identity Disorder

DID

Dissociative disorder in which person develops two or more distinct personalities

Bliss Theory of DID

Person experiences early trauma (97% of people with DID)

Copes by creating an alternate personality to deal with it

People do this a lot; pretend to be someone they are not to get through a tough situation

Gifted in autohypnosis, this induces amnesia

Person makes a pattern of facing challenge with new personality

Juanita

Was abused as a child, sold for sex and likely created alternate to deal with the pain and suffering she was dealing with

Later in life alternate was triggered by someone talking back at work

She went to prison and it did not help but second time in prison did

First Alter

Very unacceptable and hard to integrate

Acting on a very crude emotion

Very other than you, very different something you can never do

When called upon to do unthinkable

Person cannot handle the thought of doing this, this causes them to dissociate and splits off into personality that can handle situation

Autohypnosis

Many people with DID say they felt very at home during hypnosis

They can wish for something to not be remembered

Mutually Amnesic

They have no clue what each other does when they are out

Mutually Cognisant

They know everythig each other is doing

One way

A knows what B is up to

Dramatic differences between personalities

They can have different allergies, gender identities, sexual orientations, blood pressures even menstrual patterns etc

Therapy for DID

Help patient recognize problems (Show video of them switching and educate)

Recover lost memories

Integrate subpersonalities or establish one personality

Is DID real

Many people have tried to fake it to get out of criminal charges however, now it can be easily detected if someone is faking