Week 6 - DID Flashcards
1
Q
What is DID?
A
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is a condition in which an individual possesses two or more distinct identities or personalities accompanied by periods of amnesia.
2
Q
Symptoms of DID?
A
Changing attitudes, outlooks, preferences, skills and/or memories
Mood swings
Passive influence of alters
- Hallucinations
- Speech insertion
- Thought insertion
- Thought withdrawal
- Unsettling experiences of self-alterations
- Extreme and chronic self-puzzlement
- Intrusive thoughts, feelings, urges and/or actions
- Temporary loss of well-rehearsed knowledge or skills
Depersonalization/derealization
Recurrent amnesia
Headaches/migraines
Post traumatic symptoms
3
Q
Treatments?
A
Main Intervention- Psychotherapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EDMR)
Grounding Strategies
No medications directly address dissociative symptoms
Integrative functioning
- Cooperative arrangement between alters
- Partial integration - fusion of some alters
- Final fusion - complete integration of alters
