By Kelton White, Oliver Osborne,
Kenan Stafford, and Gabe Cowley.
Symptoms and Facts
Different Kinds Of Symptoms
Depression
 Headaches
 Out of Body Experiences
A person with Identity Dissociative
Disorder may act like or find themselves
doing things that they normally wouldn’t
do. Example a good charitable person
wouldn’t randomly act greedy and yet
some say they wouldn’t have choice in
doing it .
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Symptoms( cont.)
Alcohol Abuse
 Drug Abuse
 Panic Attacks
 Suicidal Tendencies
 Seeing Hallucinations
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Mary Kendall
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Mary Kendall was a social worker at the age of 35
who had be diagnosed with many symptoms of DID
like gap memory loss. She stated that when she got
home from work that her car’s gas tank was full.
However during the next morning she claims that her
gas tank was nearing empty. What was found out
was that she was traveling 50 to 100 miles during
that time. Mary’s alternate personality Marian then
explained that it was her that took the car to sort out
her problems. Soon later it was told that six other
personalities emerged had had conflicts with one
another.
Psychotherapy
Medicine
Self Help
Treatments
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Psychotherapy is a process focused on helping you heal and
learn more constructive ways to deal with the problems or
issues within your life. It can also be a supportive process
when going through a difficult period or under increased
stress.
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medications such as tranquilizers or antidepressants are
prescribed for MPD patients, they are often diagnosed as
having anxiety or depression rather than the multiple
personality disorder. The treatment of MPD lasts an average
of four years
MPD facts
MPD is diagnosed nine times more often in
females than in males.
 A history of severe abuse is thought to be
associated with MPD.
 Signs and symptoms of MPD include
memory lapses, blackouts, being often
accused of lying, finding strange items
among one's possessions, having
strangers recognize them as someone
else, feeling unreal, and feeling like more
than one person.
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Common MPD Questions
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What is MPD?
MPD is a survival tactic. It is the creative attempt of highly
traumatized children to protect themselves from the trauma and
abuse (e.g.: "It isn't happening to me.")
Is MPD the same thing as schizophrenia?
Most people think that schizophrenia means "split personality."
Actually, this is totally incorrect. "Split Personality" is MPD, not
schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a chronic form of psychosis due to
a biochemical/genetic disorder of the brain. SCHIZOPHRENICS
DO NOT HAVE OTHER PERSONALITIES. Schizophrenia is not
caused by trauma, and does not involve amnesia and flashbacks.
How common is MPD?
Although the data is not all in, the best estimate of the prevalence
of MPD is that it approximates that of about 1% of the population.
This estimate would translate into at least 2,000,000 cases in the
U.S. alone.
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
The inability for an individual to recollect
memories or events from their past.
 The events or memories forgotten are
commonly traumatic or stressful ones.
 In more severe cases, people suffering
from the disorder may even forget
important personal information about
themselves such as where they live, what
they do for a living, etc.
 Brains way of dealing with the stress or
trauma.
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Symptoms
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Common symptoms associated with this
disorder are: the forgetting of past
events, the inability to remember
personal information, unexplained,
persistent confusion, anxiety, and a
depressed mood.
Facts about Dissociative Disorder
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More common in women then in men
In a group of women, approximately 3-6 per
1000 had this disorder. The amount per 1000
men was lower.
Most cases begin before adulthood. It is rare
for cases to begin after adulthood.
Studies are being conducted to find out
whether genetics may make you more
susceptible to the disorder but there is
insufficient evidence to prove so.
Unclear what percentage of the population
suffers.
Dissociative Fugue
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Dissociative Fugue like Dissociative
Amnesia is caused by very traumatic
events or stress. Also Alcohol and drugs
and induce a Dissociative Fugue like
state.
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Diagnosis can be difficult since they
make a new identity people may not be
able to tell anything is wrong.
Symptoms
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Losing your identity
Suddenly leaving home
Identity confusion
creating a new identity
Distress
ability to function
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It is not a Fugue state if you do not lose
your identity and assume a new one and
leave home.
Treatment
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Treatment Like in the Dissociative Amnesia is just to deal
with the emotional problems. Or to prevent further
episodes.
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Many recovery their memory by themselves at some
point, but the way psychologists help with the underlying
problems are.
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Psychotherapy
Creative therapies (art therapy, music therapy)
Family therapy
Medication
Cognitive therapy
Clinical hypnosis
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Depersonalization disorder
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Everyone experiences this to a certain extent.
If you have ever had a out-of-body experience,
day dreamed, or felt like you were living a
dream. For people with this disorder it is a
constant feeling.
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Like the other Dissociative disorders it is
believed to be caused by some trauma or
stress.
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1%-2% of the general populace are believed
to have this disorder
Symptoms
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The symptoms are subjective in nature so it is
difficult to pin down but the basic themes are.
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Depersonalization (Feeling disconnected from
your own body)
Feeling disconnected from your mind
Derealization (Sense of things being unreal)
Some have hallucinations
Feeling like you are living outside the present
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Treatment
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The treatments are to deal with the
emotional problems of everything feeling
unreal like depression or anxiety.
Psychotherapy
 Creative therapies (art therapy, music
therapy)
 Medication (for depression or anxiety)
 Cognitive therapy
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Conclusion
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Dissociative Disorders seem to all stem from some
kind of extreme stress or trauma.
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Dissociative Disorders deal with some kind of
challenge to ones identity
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Diagnosis is difficult because amnesia is associated
with all of them, but Depersonalization Disorder.
Coupled with the loss of identity the person often
does not realize anything is wrong.
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There is no medical “cure all” medicine is utilized to
just treat symptoms like depression or anxiety
stemming from the Dissociative Disorder.