Dissociative Identity

Disorder
By: Jabrail Ahmed, Sophia Brockman, Ian Snyder.
What is D.I.D?
D.I.D previously known as multiple personality disorder
is caused by severe early childhood trauma.
Most of us have experienced mild dissociation, which is
like daydreaming. However, D.I.D is a severe form of
dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of
connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings,
actions, or sense of identity.
What do people experience?
It is characterized by the presence of two more distinct
split personalities or identities that continually have
control over the persons behavior.
With dissociative identity disorder, there's also an
inability to recall key personal information.
With dissociative identity disorder, there are also highly
distinct memory variations, which fluctuate with the
person's split personality.
What are alters?
alters are the different personalities that the patient
has.
they have their own personalities, age, names, sex, race,
posture, gestures, and ways of talking.
Sometimes they are people or they can even be animals.
As each personality presents itself it is called switching
this can take minutes, hours, and up to multiple days.
Control
Most of the time the host or the main personality,
doesnt have control over when the switching
occurs.
Often the identities dont have mutual agreeance with
each other.
Most often they argue over who is in control and who is
the main alter.
Kim Noble
Kim Noble is a resident of South London and lives with her
14 year old daughter and her two dogs. Kim who is 50
years old claims she has over 20 personalities. Judy the
teenage bulimic and devout Catholic Salamoe are just to
name a few of her 20 personalities.
Examples
United States of Tara.
Interview
Documentaries
Statistics
nearly 9.1% of adults over the age of 18 in the United
States are diagnosed with D.I.D or some borderline
identity disorder.
Sources
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identit
y-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder
http://www2.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_You
rself/About_Mental_Illness/By_Illness/Dissociative_Ide
ntity_Disorder.htm
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-
advice/articles/2015/03/12/what-is-dissociative-
identity-disorder