Simone如何确认是否真正患有解离性人格障碍？
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A vase slips from your hand. Which piece is the original?
Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is an incredibly complex and unfortunately stigmatized condition. Movies like Split, where the protagonist is portrayed as a villain who can 'transform' into a wall-climbing monster is an exaggeration - a mockery.
The change in name was to reflect a better understanding of the condition. Rather than the growth of separate personalities, the illness is characterized by a fragmentation of an identity.
You'll be shocked to know that DID isn't rare. Highly successful individuals, your doctor, your psychologist, your friend, the person walking beside you, may have the condition. The sole point is for you to be unaware and for the DID sufferer to seem like a 'normal' functioning human in society.
After all, it is all about survival.
How does DID develop?
Between the ages of 6 to 8, a child absorbs information from the environment. This forms the basis of an identity. For a child who experiences abuse beyond bearable, the path to creating an identity freezes in time.
For a child who doesn't have a caregiver to provide the love and protection necessary from recovering from a trauma, dissociation becomes a safe place.
Dissociation is a mental process whereby the child disconnects from their thoughts, emotions, memories, and environment, to endure the physical and mental pain.
This disconnection splits the forming identity, scattering the mind to pieces.
How does the individual know they have DID?
Many with DID will go into their adulthood, not knowing that they have the condition. Why? Just as you wear a helmet to protect your brain from being injured, the brain places a cover over the individual with DID, shielding them from the traumatic memories that could be too difficult to handle.
The core personality, known as the “host”, identifies with the person's real name. The host controls the body and the outside world and is usually unaware of the presence of other dissociative states. However, she or he often suspects there being something not quite right with them, but is unable to pinpoint the problem.
For many hosts that become aware of the condition, the first emotions felt are denial and doubt. No individual with DID initially wants to accept this secret. It can be very overwhelming, burdening and confusing.
What are the signs?
Slowly, but surely, despite there being doubt, the host pieces together the symptoms and all the fragmented pieces begin to form a puzzle.
The amnesia, where a person cannot remember important information about his or her life; the memory gaps, where childhood experiences cannot be retrieved, or simple things such as not remembering what you ate for breakfast start to make sense.
The mood shifts, differences in handwriting, body language, likes and dislikes, characteristics and hobbies, begin to make sense.
Unlike Schizophrenia where the voices are an auditory hallucination, DID voices come from within and are real. These voices are similar to conversations you have with yourself, but instead of hearing your own voice, you hear voices of alters, which can range in tone, age or gender.
Out of body experiences, looking at pictures of yourself, staring into the mirror and feeling like you cannot resonate with the person looking back at you, typing on your laptop and feeling separated to the hands moving, these are all signs of DID.
Along with the dissociation, you may experience other psychiatric problems such as depression, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders, anxiety, phobias, drug abuse and eating disorders.
DID is an incredibly complex condition.
For those who deny its existence, realize that those with DID are often the first to experience doubt, as it's beyond what the mind can comprehend. However, it is incredibly real with research to back it.
If you would like to know more, I suggest watching the phenomenal 'DissociaDID' on YouTube.
