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Definition
Causes
Nursing
Process
What do you
know about
DID?
Definition
Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnose and
describes a condition in which a person displays multiple
distinct identities or personalities (known as alter egos or
alters), each with its own pattern of perceiving and
interacting with the environment
Etiology
Genetic Predispotition
Emotionaly, physically, sexual abuse
Lack of nuturing experience to assist
recovery from abuse
Traumatic before 15
Low self esteem
Nursing Process
Assess
ment
Treatm
ent
Nursing
Process
Interve
ntion
Diagn
ose
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Conclusion
DID person is one who has two or
more personalities. DID
commonly caused by sexual
abuse in childhood. Every DID
person has one true personality
who recognizes the other
personalities. The objective of
nursing process is to merge all the
fake personalities into one true
personality. The key point is nurse
have to be really patient to the
client
Assessment
o Guilt and Shame
o Low Esteem
o Hallucination
o Recurrent deppression
o Sexual Dysfunction
oSleep disorder
oSuicidal tendency, etc
Diagnose
Risk of Self
mutilation
Distrubed personal
identity
Chronic low
esteem
Intervention
Establish trusting relation
Treatment
Hypnosis to revisit trauma
Implementation of sucide
precaution
Psychotherapy
Medication
Treatment for sleep
disoder, eat disorder, sex
dysfunction