Health Disorder- Dissociative Identity Disorder
October 13, 2008
It is a psychological problem but most often we tend to call the patients of DID abnormal or haunted by some super natural powers. In recent past, this disease was named as multiple personality disorder (MPD). Although this disease is not a rare one, but the most crucial discovery of the latest research in DID is that this personality disorder is generated in the childhood days, out of some traumatic experience which may result from child abuse, like repetitive mental, physical, and sexual abuse, to make his/her inner self unsecured.
Dissociation is common emotional trait. We like day dreaming or we like to indulge some of our cherished desire but these are all temporary phases. Whatever we dream, our association with reality is never abolished and we can perfectly synchronize with our personality to our surroundings. But things are different with the DID affected persons. For them the process of dissociation is a mental process and a prolonged one where the affected person reacts in post-traumatic stage to alienate him from the painful experience he had in reality and unconsciously creates a personality to escape from the tormented memory.
There are some general symptoms for the DID affected persons like depression, suicidal tendency, abrupt mood swing, destructive though introvert in behavior, major sleep disorder, suffering from panic attacks, phobia prone, eating disorder, frequent experience with hallucination, tendency for drug or alcohol abuse to indulge more escapism, etc.
There are some other antisocial drives present in the DID affected persons like stealing money, or driving recklessly, or abusing some other person, which are contrary to his normal state of personality. The DID persons claim that there is another driver in his body who drags him to do the nuisance. Actually, it is the indication of split personality that initiates revenge against the injustice he had faced before and acts aggressively.
The multiple personalities of DID affected persons are called alters and each alter has his/her own age and identity. That is why DID affected person cannot maintain a single routine or memory, because he does not know when and where, which alter in his personality will be dominating and will act according to his own routine.
Once recognized the problem by symptom or by abnormal behavior, immediately a doctor needs to be consulted. There are medicines and scope of cognitive therapy that can minimize the intensity of the attack and parameter of virulence, if any in the patient to normalize his activities.
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