WHO WILL I BE TODAY? Imagine not being able to control who you’re going to be that day or that second or even in that hour, having no sense of control of your actions, or what comes out of your mouth. Dissociative identity disorder, most commonly known as the multi-personality-disorder is a very rare condition, known to have been caused by physical and sexual abuse, mostly during their childhood or at a young age. According to today’s psychiatrist, DID affects the body both mentally and physically. A person with Dissociative Identity disorder is said to have 10-15 different personalities, suffer from depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, and sleep disorders like insomnia, night terrors, or sleep walking, some people even turn to
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First let us begin with depression, depression is a mood or emotional state that is marked by feelings of low self-worth or guilt and a reduced ability to enjoy life. People with Multi-personality disorder suffer from depression in some of their personalities because they relay back to old memories or past experiences. Suicidal tendencies is also one of the symptoms that someone with DID might have, depending on the personality they have entered into, I recently watch a video on YouTube of a woman with different personalities that surfaced within seconds. One of her personalities was a angry woman who was very religious and had suicidal tendencies toward herself, and when the interviewer asked who she was talking about, she said herself. Another common symptoms is sleep disorders such as insomnia, trouble sleeping throughout the night, people sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with night terrors or go to sleep and wake up in a different alter. The alters or different identities have their own age, sex or even race. Each different personality also has their own ways of sitting, gestures that they do and a distinct way of talking. Why some people develop DID is not completely understood, though the accuracy of such accounts s disputer they are often confirmed by objective evidence. Some believe that because DID patients are highly suggestable, their symptoms are at least partly iatrogenic, meaning prompted …show more content…
It has been said that women are more likely to be sexually abused as a child or at a young age rather than men. However males that have been abused in any way may experience pathological dissociation. The average number of alternate personalities a person with DID has is between the numbers of eight and thirteen years of age. But there have been cases of more than 100 different personalities within an individual with DID. I searched quotes from dissociated Identity disorder, and I came across one by a girl name Melissa, how ironic! So here it is “I "lost time" which is the symptom you read so much about, but I also had other symptoms like reading letters an alter had written to people close to me and not understanding it or remembering writing it. I was told all the time about conversations I had with other people that I did not remember. Well, I almost remembered them. They seemed vaguely familiar to me, more like I had overheard them a year before. I was clever at pretending to know what everyone was talking about. I learned ways of picking up on cues from other people to make it seem like I was aware of everything that was going on. And when that did not work I just claimed to be "spacey" and blamed it on my blonde hair." What this quote means to me is that people diagnosed with this disease really have a hard time
First let us begin with depression, depression is a mood or emotional state that is marked by feelings of low self-worth or guilt and a reduced ability to enjoy life. People with Multi-personality disorder suffer from depression in some of their personalities because they relay back to old memories or past experiences. Suicidal tendencies is also one of the symptoms that someone with DID might have, depending on the personality they have entered into, I recently watch a video on YouTube of a woman with different personalities that surfaced within seconds. One of her personalities was a angry woman who was very religious and had suicidal tendencies toward herself, and when the interviewer asked who she was talking about, she said herself. Another common symptoms is sleep disorders such as insomnia, trouble sleeping throughout the night, people sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with night terrors or go to sleep and wake up in a different alter. The alters or different identities have their own age, sex or even race. Each different personality also has their own ways of sitting, gestures that they do and a distinct way of talking. Why some people develop DID is not completely understood, though the accuracy of such accounts s disputer they are often confirmed by objective evidence. Some believe that because DID patients are highly suggestable, their symptoms are at least partly iatrogenic, meaning prompted …show more content…
It has been said that women are more likely to be sexually abused as a child or at a young age rather than men. However males that have been abused in any way may experience pathological dissociation. The average number of alternate personalities a person with DID has is between the numbers of eight and thirteen years of age. But there have been cases of more than 100 different personalities within an individual with DID. I searched quotes from dissociated Identity disorder, and I came across one by a girl name Melissa, how ironic! So here it is “I "lost time" which is the symptom you read so much about, but I also had other symptoms like reading letters an alter had written to people close to me and not understanding it or remembering writing it. I was told all the time about conversations I had with other people that I did not remember. Well, I almost remembered them. They seemed vaguely familiar to me, more like I had overheard them a year before. I was clever at pretending to know what everyone was talking about. I learned ways of picking up on cues from other people to make it seem like I was aware of everything that was going on. And when that did not work I just claimed to be "spacey" and blamed it on my blonde hair." What this quote means to me is that people diagnosed with this disease really have a hard time