More on DID

There are a few other ways that Dissociative Personality Disorder manifests itself, and here are a few of the them.

The first one that I want to mention is 'Dissociative Fugue' or as one in a fugue state means that the person is in a state of confusion over a personal identity, as in when there is travel away from home. There is a partial or a complete identity loss or gain for the person to figure out where one belongs and there is what is known as 'flight state' when for a short amount of time away from home there is a less than complete change of identity that is triggered by some kind of stressor, so that the person is able to cope with what is going on and given time to think through what is really happening to them and come back to the reality of their life. There could be a single or repeated episodes of this form of DID. The person can have no recollection of being in a state of fugue, but the symptoms will go away simultaneously also the explicit memory will go away, but the implicit memory will be intact. One must deal with mood extremes along with anxiety and other contributing factors.

Another form of DID is one of 'Depersonalization Disorder' where unreality about the environment feeling like they are disconnected from the personal body. There is a detachment that affects their occupational life. There are frequent episodes of feeling detached from the body. The perceptions of the state of mind that are not real and do not feel natural. There are physical and psychological stressors that bring this on for the person. The treatment is to try and alleviate the anxiety and depressive symptoms for they fear of going insane.

This is one my favorite version of DID or 'Dissociative Personality Disorder' or as one used to call it 'multiple personalities'. This is when there is two or more distinct personalities in one individual that co-exist in one person. Each personality may or may not know of each other. This disorder is complex and the 'host' personality is the main personality of the person, the there are the 'alters' who failed to integrate into one person or the host personality. There are various characteristics that are different with all the separate alters.

The 'host' keeps there name and their basic identity and the transitions of what happens with the various symptoms like having 'headaches', 'spells', and 'amnesia' for say about two weeks durations from the traumatic events such as miscarriage as 'Eve White' as the host has suffered emotional abuse from her husband with arguments and his violent personality. The family issues has having the husband and child taken away. The patient claims of hearing voices of long and short durations that also claims of hearing voices that is wrong of not her own voice. Whenever faced with difficulty like extreme sadness an alter like 'Eve Black' a single version that claims Eve White's child is not hers or Eve White's husband is also not hers. The second personality knows all about Eve White's life and would be like a 'coach' host personality. Eve Black has different personality traits from host and the host gets weaker and the alter gets stronger. At one time commitment to a sanitorium/state mental hospital was part of the treatment. The alters try to protect the host and the purpose in treatment is to introduce the alters to the host and integrate them to each other to have one person. A fun fact from Hollywood would use different types of music for the personality changes/transitions.

To be continued More on 'multiple personality'

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