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2.  Abbreviated as DID
 A rare mental
disturbance of one’s
identity that causes them
to have two or more
separate and distinct
personality states that
have the ability to
control the individual’s
behavior
 Affects about 6-10% of
people in the United
States and 0.4% in China
BUT…

3.  Before the 19th century,
people with
Dissociative Identity
Disorder were
considered to be
possessed
 They were imprisoned
and treated very poorly
 Lobotomy and
“exorcisms”

4.  Researchers believe
that the main cause of
Dissociative Identity
Disorder is physical or
sexual abuse when the
individual was a child
 They create the alters
to distance themselves
from the pain and
trauma

5.  A person with
Dissociative Identity
Disorder can have 2
alters, or even 100
alters
 The average person
suffering with DID has
10 alters

6.  When any alter takes
over, the individual with
DID usually doesn’t
remember what
happened
 Patients with DID often
complain about episodes
of time loss
 Some patients might
have friends that they
don’t know, because an
alter has befriended
them

7.  Multiple different
attitudes
 Feeling of a loss of
time
 Depression
 Depersonalization
 Flashbacks of
abuse/trauma
 Sudden anger for no
reason
 Panic attacks
 Unexplainable phobias

8.  When a child is  The average age for
abused, researchers initial creation of alters
believe that they is 6 years old
develop the alters,  Children who are
using dissociation as a developing DID are
defense usually quiet but have
 They become other a short fuse and seem
people so that they to be different at times
believe the abuse isn’t
really happening to
them

9.  DSM IV explains that the
diagnostic criteria for
 SCID interview/testing
Dissociative Identity
Disorder is:
› 1. Disruption of identity
› 2. Inability to recall
important personal
information
› 3. Experiences distress
in social experiences
› 4.The disturbances
aren’t culturally
excepted, such as the
way people act when
intoxicated

10.  The alters are like their
own people, they can
have very different
personalities, they can
even be a different
gender
 An alter can take over
when the individual
sneezes, closes their
eyes for longer than a
blink, or rub their face

11.  All the alters can be  Some alters can be
different in one way or more aggressive
another towards the person’s
 They can have environment or
different voices, towards the person’s
mannerisms, attitudes, other alters
thoughts and they can
speak differently
regarding sentence
structure

12.  Some alters can have
allergies that their
“owner” doesn’t
 Right-or-left
handedness
 Need for eyeglass
prescription
 Handwriting
 Ages

13.  Individual’s with DID
usually go to therapy
with hypnosis
 Talking about and
dealing with the
memories of sexual or
physical abuse has a
large impact on
changing the alters

14.  When the patient is
under hypnosis, the
therapist attempts to
contact all the alters
they can separately
 Once the therapist
understands the roles
of each alter they try to
find the most
aggressive alter to
change their behavior

15.  The therapist also
wants to find the alters
who have the
memories of the
trauma to try and help
them cope
 Once the therapist
understands everyone,
they try to unify the
alters back to the
original individual,
getting rid of some of
the alters if possible

16.  Herschel Walker was a  Here he explains that
running back for the he wasn’t abused as a
Dallas Cowboys and child but he was
the Philadelphia bullied
Eagles
 He doesn’t remember
winning the Heisman
Trophy
 He wrote a book called
Breaking Free: My
Life with Dissociative
Identity Disorder

17.  http://www.youtube.c  She was born with
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FrJ48 which made her blind
 36 years old, born
Diana but Margo took
over as the host alter
 3 prominent alters out
of her 68
› Margo, 16
› Jackie, 21
› Corey, 4

18.  1. Schizophrenia is a  4. DID is usually caused
__________ disorder, by __________ and
unlike Dissociative _________ abuse
Identity Disorder, which when the individual is a
is a _____________ child.
and _____________
disorder.
 5. Schizophrenia is
 2. There is no _______ usually caused by the
for Schizophrenia, but individual’s _________
there are __________. make up and the
____________ they
 3. People with were exposed to.
_________________
_ usually undergo
hypnosis and therapy.

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Jan. 2012.
<http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1780>.
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Personality Disorder)." NAMI: National Alliance on Mental
Illness. NAMI. Web. 09 Jan. 2012.
<http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Dis
sociative_Identity_Disorder_(formerly_Multiple_Personality_
Disorder).htm>.
 Phelps, Jennifer. "Celebrities with Dissociative
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