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  1. disassociative identity disorder.
  2. What you need to know and more.
  3. So why did I choose D I D?
  4. The first time we ever heard of D I.
  5. D was probably because of the show that my parents
  6. used to watch.
  7. United States of Tara.
  8. This is a popular American show that features a main
  9. character, Terra, who has multiple personality disorder, or MPD, which
  10. is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.
  11. D I D.
  12. That's probably the first time I ever heard of this
  13. disorder. So a few years later, when I was browsing
  14. YouTube, I stumbled upon a channel called Multiplicity and Me.
  15. This channel is by just who is a psychology major
  16. from the UK who also has D.
  17. I. D.
  18. Her channel is dedicated to educating others about D.
  19. I. D.
  20. And she had recently started a project called Multiplicity and
  21. Us, where she plugged other YouTubers with D.
  22. I. D.
  23. They were also making educational content.
  24. I watched a lot of these channels a lot of
  25. their videos, and my interest began, and when this project
  26. was assigned, I thought it would be a good opportunity
  27. to do some more formal research on D i.
  28. D. So What is D I d d i d
  29. is categorized in the D.
  30. S m five as a disassociative disorder.
  31. This disorder is characterized by two or more distinctive identity
  32. states, coupled with significant loss of time.
  33. These significant losses of time can be frequent and quite
  34. disturbing. Often these disorders are paired with other disorders called
  35. co morbid disorders.
  36. Um, a lot of people with D I.
  37. D have things like anxiety, depression, PTSD or eating disorders
  38. on top of D.
  39. I. D.
  40. So why does the idee happen?
  41. What causes it?
  42. It's believed to be caused by a severe and repetitive
  43. early childhood trauma and is believed to be a type
  44. of coping mechanism or defense.
  45. The mind creates because the child believes there is no
  46. other choice or no other place to go.
  47. So how do people with D I d get treatment
  48. and how are they treated?
  49. What are the goals of their treatment?
  50. The major goals of treatment are to build community and
  51. communication and autonomy it within the system within these personality
  52. states with the intention to eventually integrate these states into
  53. one cohesive personality.
  54. Um, the major goal, though, is to stop the disorder
  55. from disrupting daily life.
  56. One of the key categories in the D.
  57. S. M that makes D I.
  58. D. A disorder is that it disrupts daily life.
  59. So how are we going to meet these treatment goals
  60. so often is a combination of various psychotherapy is such
  61. as cognitive, behavioral, other behavioral therapies and medication to treat
  62. any of the co morbid disorders.
  63. So how is this important to you, and how does
  64. it apply to our psychology class?
  65. Well, in Chapter two, we talked about, um, what makes
  66. psychology studies sometimes hard to measure?
  67. Um, D I.
  68. D is a great example of this.
  69. As many of the symptoms are sensory perception or identity
  70. based and have a lot to do with the way
  71. the patient is feeling.
  72. And these sorts of symptoms cannot be measured directly.
  73. They have to measured indirectly via survey or testimonial.
  74. It's very hard than to corroborate the symptoms and and
  75. sort of proved that the symptoms are happening.
  76. Additionally, in Chapter nine, we talked about create the possibility
  77. of creating false memories so false memories can be created
  78. by essentially repeating something or telling someone something enough that
  79. they begin to create memories to corroborate what you're saying.
  80. This can be a worry when treating things like D
  81. I. D.
  82. Because tthe e patient cannot remember their trauma often times
  83. in order to help them process and deal with this
  84. trauma, they have to figure out what it ISS.
  85. So sometimes positions can do more harm than good by
  86. implying certain childhood traumas.
  87. And even if the person never experienced those traumas, it's
  88. possible they could remember something that didn't happen to them.
  89. While there isn't a whole lot of evidence to support
  90. that, this is a common occurrence.
  91. It's a big worry among many psychologists and psychiatrists that
  92. are treating people who they suspect have d.
  93. I. D.
  94. They had to be very careful to make sure that
  95. they are experiencing these symptoms before they are they begin