Mental Illness - Depression - Suicide Prevention
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?

DID, formerly called multiple personality disorder, develops as a childhood coping mechanism. To escape pain and trauma in childhood, the mind splits off feelings, personality traits, characteristics, and memories, into separate compartments which then develop into unique personality states. Each identity can have its own name and personal history. These personality states recurrently take control of the individual’s behavior, accompanied by an inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.

DID is a spectrum disorder with varying degrees of severity. In some cases, certain parts of a person's personalities are aware of important personal information, whereas other personalities are unaware. Some personalities appear to know and interact with one another in an elaborate inner world. In other cases, a person with DID may be completely aware of all the parts of their internal system.

People with DID will often lose track of time and have amnesia to life events. They may not be able to recall things they have done or account for changes in their behavior.  Some may lose track of hours while some lose track of days.  They have feelings of detachment from one's self and feelings that one's surroundings are unreal.

While most people cannot recall much about the first 3 to 5 years of life, people with dissociative identity disorder may have considerable amnesia for the period between the ages of 6 and 11 as well. Often times, people with DID will refer to themselves in the plural. Read more HERE.
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