Dissociative+Disorder

= Dissociative Identity Disorder =

It's previously known as multiple personality disorder.

Common Effect: The most common effect is from trauma during early childhood. (Ex: Would be emotional, physical, and sexual abuse ﻿ ) A person can have between 2 and 200 personalities. They literally take themselves away from a situation that is too violet, traumatic, or painful and replace it with a different personalities. Normally there is a main personality and sub personalities. They may or may not know if the others exist. Normally at least One personality is violent. The personalities can be different sexes, ages, races, and sexuality. Some of the side effects are depression, mood swings, suicidal thoughts, sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, compulsions and rituals, psychotic like symptoms, and eating disorders. Other symptoms of dissociative identity may include headache, amnesia, time loss, trances, and "out of body experiences".

How is it Diagnosed:

According to the diagonostic and statistical manual of mental health disorders fourth edition (DSM- IV). There are three clusters of the disorder. Cluster A- it's paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypical personality, they often appear eccentric. Cluster B- Antisocial, boarder line, histrionic, and narcissistic personality,they are often discribed as emotional, dramatic, and unpredictable. Cluster C- avoidant, dependant, obbsessive- compulisive, described as anxious.

Cavendish, Marshall. //Diseases and Disorders.// New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2008. Print. http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder