Identity Disorder Psych-2011

Condition in which a person displays multiple distince identities. Each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the enviorment.

Also know as Multiple Personality Disorder, (MPD) which has two or more distinct personalities that alternate back and forth.

Main symptoms:

• Headaches
• Distortion or loss of subjective time
• severe memory loss
• depresson
• flashbacks of abuse or trama
• sudden anger
• panic attacks
• phobias
• mutiple personalities

Drugs and Treatments:

• Psychiatric medication: effects mental stateAntidepressant drugs: citaloprom, venlofoxine, phenelzine, fluoxetine and setraline. These help reduce depression in patients. Depressants: Clam down patients with violent/ maniac behavior. Antipsychotic medicine: Chlorpromanzine, cripiprazole, and mellari for psychotic behavior Anxiety medicine: Excessive anxiety caused by the identities

Reaserch is currently being done connecting DID to early child hood abuse and sexual abuse.

Even though the diagnosis is not usually made until later in life, it is found to be much more common to have DID in people who were abused as a child.

Countries with DID percentages

• India - .015%
• Switzerland - .05-.1%
• China - .4%
• Germany - .9%
• Netherlands – 2%
• United States 6-10%
• Turkey - 14%

Although most common in middle age women in North America

DID is a very controversial disorder

• People believe this disorder can be "faked" therefore it is a fake disorder
• People are faking the symptoms of memory loss and gaining the memories back after treatment.
• People are also skeptical about abuse being related to DID

DID in the future:

Future research for DID is planed to consist of determining the risk factor, clarify how genetic and environmental factor contribute to the diagnosis of DID and also for us to figure more out about the link of childhood abuse to DID.

Biological Factors

There are some Genetic tendencys but overall the disorder is not caused by that, it is linked to childhood abuse

Learning Factors

Kids can also become more accustomed to the disorder and may imitate some of the mannerisms of DID from seeing it in their parents.

Work Cited

Medscape. "Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder): Signs, Symptoms, Treatment." WebMD - Better Information. Better Health. Ed. Rick Kulkarni. WebMD LLC, Nov. 2005. Web. 06 Jan. 2012. <http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple- personality-disorder>.

Edwards, Roxanne D. "Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Symptoms, Treatment, Causes, Signs and Diagnosis by MedicineNet.com." Dissociative Identity Disorder. Ed. Melissa C. Stoppler. MedicineNet INC, Apr. 1996. Web. 03 Jan. 2 012. <http://www.medicinenet.com/dissociative_identity_disorder/article.htm>.

Comparison of parts of the brain with DID. Digital image. Brain Area Associated with DID. Web. <http://1jessicakes.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/q314f1.gif>.

Me Myself and Irene. Digital image. Google Search. WordPress. Web. 05 Jan. 2012. <http://nameun.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/me-myself-and-irene.jpg>.

Dissociative Identity Disorder. Digital image. Content Uploads. Top5. Web. 06 Jan. 2012. <http://top5s.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/254.jpg>.

Gender-Identity-Disorder. Digital image. Counsleor.org. Web. 06 Jan. 2012. <http://www.counselor.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Gender-Identity-Disorder.jpg>.

Split-Personality-Disorder. Digital image. Split-Personality-Disorder. SPD.net. Web. 06 J an. 2012. <http://splitpersonalitydisorder.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Split- Personality-Disorder.jpg>.

Thank you for your attention!

Although most common in middle age women in North America

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Displays multiple distinct identities

DID

FUGUE

engages in sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one’s customary place of work

presence of 2 or more distinct identities or personality states

memory loss

Switching personalities are much more frequent, can switch in the matter of seconds

Episodes are less frequent

aggression, depressive mood

Inability to recall important personal information

presence of one or more other people talking or living inside your head

duration of memory loss can be hours or years