Dissociative Identity
Disorder
By: Jabrail Ahmed, Sophia Brockman, Ian Snyder.
What is D.I.D?
● D.I.D previously known as multiple personality disorder
is caused by severe early childhood trauma.
● Most of us have experienced mild dissociation, which is
like daydreaming. However, D.I.D is a severe form of
dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack
of connection in a person's thoughts, memories,
feelings, actions, or sense of identity.
What do people experience?
● It is characterized by the presence of two more
distinct split personalities or identities that continually
have control over the persons behavior.
● With dissociative identity disorder, there's also an
inability to recall key personal information.
● With dissociative identity disorder, there are also
highly distinct memory variations, which fluctuate
with the person's split personality.
What are “alters”?
● “alters” are the different personalities that the
patient has.
● they have their own personalities, age, names, sex,
race, posture, gestures, and ways of talking.
● Sometimes they are people or they can even be
animals.
● As each personality presents itself it is called
“switching”
● this can take minutes, hours, and up to multiple days.
Control
● Most of the time the “host” or the main personality,
doesn’t have control over when the “switching”
occurs.
● Often the identities don’t have mutual agreeance with
each other.
● Most often they argue over who is in control and who
is the main “alter”.
Kim Noble
Kim Noble is a resident of South London and lives with her
14 year old daughter and her two dogs. Kim who is 50
years old claims she has over 20 personalities. Judy the
teenage bulimic and devout Catholic Salamoe are just to
name a few of her 20 personalities.
Examples
● “United States of Tara”.
● Interview
● Documentaries
Statistics
● nearly 9.1% of adults over the age of 18 in the United
States are diagnosed with D.I.D or some borderline
identity disorder.
Sources
● http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociativeidentity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder
● http://www2.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Infor
m_Yourself/About_Mental_Illness/By_Illness/Dissociati
ve_Identity_Disorder.htm
● http://health.usnews.com/health-news/patientadvice/articles/2015/03/12/what-is-dissociativeidentity-disorder