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Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder), is a medical condition, where 2 or more personalities or identities alternate in control of an individual’s behavior and there is amnesia incidences that occur. Such a disorder is a chronic, serious, possibly fatal or disabling medical condition. Inabilities by certain individuals to remember essential personal information (amnesia) is combined with information’s simultaneous awareness by other individuals. Some individuals with dissociative identity disorder appear to know and interact with one another in an elaborating inner world. For instance, a person A can be aware of person B and know what personality B does, as if observing personality B’s behavior; person B might or might not be aware of person A. Other people might or might not be aware of personality B, and personality B might or might not be aware of them. Individuals with dissociative identity disorder often attempt suicide. Dissociative identity disorder appears to be resulted from few factors including: 1. an ability to separate one’s ability separating one’s memorys dissociative capacity, or perception. 2. Insufficient nurture and protection at the time of childhood. 3. Physical or emotional overwhelming stress, experienced at the time of childhood; 4. Abnormal development before unified self-view and other people may be strongly consolidated. Symptoms of dissociative identity disorder include anxiety, depression, sexual dysfunction, phobia, panic attacks, posttraumatic stress disorders, and eating disorders. Attempts of suicide are common. Many individuals with such a disorder abuse alcohol or drugs at some point. Because of personalities frequently interacting with each other, individuals with dissociative identity disorder report hearing of other personalities and hearing other conversations. Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by several features such as: derelization, and depersonalization; severe headache and other physical aches; flunctuation function ability from managing well at home and work to become disable; and amnesia, time lapses, and time distortion. Individuals with this disorder usually have a history of 3 or more various psychiatric disorders in the past and of not responding to treatment. Diagnosis of dissociative personality disorder is based on psychiatric and medical history. The disorder needs psychotherapy generally combined with hypnosis. Medications may relieve certain specific symptoms but do not affect the disorder itself. Treatment of dissociative identity disorder is frequently emotional, painful, and arduous. The person can feel various emotional crises from the personalities actions and from despair that can happen when traumatic memory is recalled at the time of therapy. Few psychiatric hospitalization periods are frequently required to help the person through hard time and come to grips with especially painful memory. The physician frequently uses hypnosis to access the personalities, facilitate communications, between those personalities, and integrate and stabilize them. Hypnosis is also performed to decrease painful traumatic memory impact. Treatment is frequently chaotic and long and is aimed at lowering and relieving symptoms rather than achieving integration. In some cases, even a person who has poor prognosis, may improve with therapies to work through dissociative identity disorder and start making rapid progress toward recovery.
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