y Young children, faced with a

routine of torture and neglect, create a fantasy world in order to escape the brutality.
y Main Personality- Host y Other Personalities- Alters y The Transition between Alters-

Switch

y New identities can accumulate over time as the person

faces new types of situations.

y People assume whole new physical postures, voices,

vocabularies and also Handedness.

y Sufferers of DID have an average of 15 identities. y Far more common among females than males (9:1) y People with DID tend to have other disorders like

depression, eating disorders, post traumatic stress disorder.

A true story of Chris Sizemore in the year 1957. She had 3 Personalities Only three could exist at any one timefor a new one to emerge, an existing personality would "die. Eve White, Eve Black and Jane are the three alters represented in this depiction of reality. In 1975, Eve revealed that she had approximately 22 personalities some of which she experienced before and some after the therapy. She wrote the book Im Eve in

Case 2
y Sybil is a 1976 drama film y

y y y y

based on a true life story of Shirley Ardell. Her sickness developed as a result of psychological trauma she suffered as a child. 13 different personalities. Some of them are boys while most are girls Some know of the others exitence while some do not. With proper treatment she

Girls Vanessa plays the piano and helps Sybil Vickie 18 years old and speaks French, a very strong and mature personality. Peggy 9 years old talks like a little girl, often appears while crying hysterically due to Sybil's fears . Marcia wants to kill Sybil Mary is Sybil's memory of her grandmother; speaks, walks and acts like a grandmother . Nancy who kept waiting for the end of the world . Ruthie is 6 years old and was raped with a button hook by her mother. Clara and Ellen

Boys Danny dances and sings like Fred Astaire Mike built the shelf in the top of Sybil's closet . Nehemiah

Sid

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS

Multiple mannerisms, attitudes and beliefs  Experiencing blackouts in time  Being frequently accused of lying when they do not believe they are lying  Finding items in one's possession but not recalling how those things were acquired. Encountering people with whom one is unfamiliar but who seem to know them sometimes as someone else Being called names that are completely unlike their own name or nickname  Hearing voices inside their head that are not their own. Not recognizing themselves in the mirror. Feeling like more than one person.(Unreal)

Diagnosis
y Presence of two or more distinct "identities or

personality states.

y At least two personalities must take control of

the person's identity regularly.

y The person must exhibit aspects of amnesia

that is, he or she forgets routine personal information.

y The condition must not have been caused by

"direct physiological effects," such as drug abuse or head trauma.

y Treatment of dissociative identity disorder is a long and difficult

process.

y Success - the complete integration of identity) is rare. y Psychotherapy y Finding a way to have each aspect of them coexist and work

together . y Developing crisis-prevention techniques and Finding ways of coping with memory lapses that occur during times of dissociation.
y Treatment method involves having DID patients recall the

memories of their childhoods.

y Hypnosis y Making the alters friends with the Host.