Dissociative Identity Disorder Flashcards
Hysteria
repression of unpleasant emotions caused by a traumatic event
Freud
hysteria is caused by the remittance of sexual abuse that occurs during childhood
DID
mental heath condition where you have tow or more separate identities
right brain mediated trauma
trauma to personality leads it to become more compartmentalised
effects of childhood maltreatment
verbal abuse leads to higher volume of grey mater volume in auditory cortex
witness domestic abuse leads mtg lower grey matter density in right lingual gyrus
sexual abuses leads to lower grey matter volume in the primary visual cortex
prevalence
1.5%
6-9 times more likely in women
90% report childhood abuse
frontal cortex
the story and beliefs attached to it
hippocampus
the Brians filing cabinet
organises, contextualises and sequences
putamen
procedural memory
what we do and how we react to it
caudate nucleus
instinctual responses
fight/flight/freeze
encoding of traumatic memory
hippocampus is too inhibited during a threat response
amygdala is where the unprocessed implicit traumatic memories are encoded and activated by tiggers
symptoms
at least 2 identities
amnesia regarding daily life
significant distress of disrupted functioning
commonly occurs alongside
anxiety
depression
self harm
substance abuse
treatment
no cure but treatments help make symptoms more manageable
-medication
-psychotherapy
- hypnotherapy
