Blessings dear friends! Today I am going to focus on the causes for Dissociative Identity Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder. I hope that this information I am sharing today helps to enlighten and inform you as it has me on this disorder. Please feel free to email me at barbgadway@live.com anytime. 😊⛄
What Causes Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
The causes of dissociative identity disorder appear to be complex. People with dissociative identity disorder tend to have personal histories of recurring, overpowering, severe and often life-threatening traumas such as physical or sexual abuse before the age of nine; which is thought to be a key developmental age. The cause of dissociative identity disorder may also be extreme neglect or emotional abuse even if no overt physical or sexual abuse occurred. DID may also be related to a natural disaster, such as war. According to WebMD, findings indicate that parents who are frightening and unpredictable tend to raise children who experience dissociation.
Richard Kluft, an expert in dissociative identity disorder, suggests that DID is caused by four factors:
- Individuals have an innate potential to dissociate that is reflected in the fact that they are easy to hypnotize (have a high hypnotizability rating).
- Traumatic experiences in early childhood may disturb personality development, leading to greater potential for dividedness in mental or emotional areas.
- Individuals may be denied the chance to spontaneously recover because of continued emotional and/or social deprivation.
- Final presentation is shaped by mental or emotional and external factors, including social influences.
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Symptoms
The following criteria must be met for an individual to be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder:
- The individual experiences two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self). Some cultures describe this as an experience of possession.
- The disruption in identity involves a change in sense of self, sense of agency, and changes in behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and motor function.
- Frequent gaps are found in memories of personal history, including people, places, and events, for both the distant and recent past. These recurrent gaps are not consistent with ordinary forgetting.
- These symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Particular identities may emerge in specific circumstances. Transitions from one identity to another are often triggered by psychosocial stress. In the possession-form cases of dissociative identity disorder, alternate identities are visibly obvious to people around the individual. In non-possession-form cases, most individuals do not overtly display their change in identity for long periods of time.
Why some people develop DID is not entirely understood, but they frequently report having experienced severe physical and sexual abuse, particularly during childhood. Among those with the DID in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, approximately 90 percent report experiencing childhood abuse.
The disorder may first manifest at any age. Individuals with DID may have post-traumatic symptoms (nightmares, flashbacks, and startle responses) or post-traumatic stress disorder. Several studies suggest that DID is more common among close biological relatives of persons who also have the disorder than in the general population. As this once rarely reported disorder has grown more common, the diagnosis has become controversial. Some believe that because DID patients are highly suggestible, their symptoms are at least partly iatrogenic—that is, prompted by their therapists' probing. Brain imaging studies, however, have corroborated identity transitions.
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I hope this information has helped you today in some way and informed you more on this disorder. I have a child with mental health disabilities and some family members choose to treat him as if he has leprosy or ignore he exists. I focus on all mental health aspects to help STOP people from mistreating those who have a mental health disorder. Instead of ignoring the person who has mental health issues, I hope to educate to have people, instead, reach out to them. Hope you are all having a wonderful day and you are all staying warm and toasty. HUGS!!!! ❤
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