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Previously called multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder is a mental disorder where a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities.
The components that appear to contribute to the formation of a dissociative identity disorder include an overbearing stress; the capacity to put consciousness separate from memories and ideas; atypical psychological growth, and the lack of care and protection during childhood.Merck Manual: Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Fast Facts
- Former name: Multiple personality disorder
- Disorder type: Dissociative
- A controversial condition
- Often results from abuse during childhoodeMedicine: Child Abuse & Neglect: Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Linked to epilepsy
- Average age presents itself: 5.9 years oldNAMI: Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Identities possible: 2 to over 100NAMI: Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Average number of identities: 10NAMI: Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Prevalence: Present 3-4% of psychiatric hospitalizationsMerck Manual: Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Symptoms
- Headaches
- Distortion of place and time
- Depersonalization
- Depression
- Amnesia
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FYI continued: Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is why you have multiple personalities.
@rhea_ann | November 09, 2009 11:15 PM -
Did anyone else think of 'captain simian and the space monkeys' when bolton talked about dissociative identity disorder?
@DrCMSS | November 09, 2009 08:02 PM -
There's a good explanation for the differing "voices" within my tweets. I have Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as MPD.
@dragonheartsong | November 08, 2009 02:38 PM -
@Rionymesh I've known him for a while but it took me a gasmask and dissociative identity disorder to figure out that he's hot.
@Alerleilalujah | November 07, 2009 11:05 PM -
How Effective is Online Therapy for Dissociative Identity Disorder? http://cli.gs/v7WDR
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The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) - $49.95
Life is an ongoing struggle for patients who have been chronically traumatized. They typically have a wide array of symptoms, often classified under different combinations of comorbidity, which can make assessment and treatment complicated...
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The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook - $17.95
Finally, a book that addresses your concerns about DID From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media have long chronicled the lives of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality diso...
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Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Power of the Collective Heart - $40.95
This is a book about the triumph of inner authority over the debilitating effects of trauma and abuse. In a simple and straightforward style, a three-phase model for treating dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple p...
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Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder (Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series) - $39.95
Personality Disorder is a baffling, confusing and rather bizarre condition. Although Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a formal DSM-IV diagnosis, it is still very controversial, and many professionals claim that it is extremely rare, ...
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The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook (Sourcebooks) - $18.95
Finally, a book that addresses your concerns about DID From Eve to Sybil to Truddi Chase, the media have long chronicled the lives of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality diso...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Causes and Symptoms
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Dissociative Identity Disorder Prevention
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