Dissociative personality disorder (identity) is a complex psychiatric illness, which is also called a personality cleavage. In a given mental state, two different personalities coexist in one person, each of which is distinguished by an individual view of the world and its own behavioral features.
Symptoms of dissociative identity disorder
In order to establish the diagnosis of "dissociative personality disorder", the doctor carefully watches the patient. There are a number of symptoms that virtually unmistakably indicate this disease:
- failures in memory, which affect even important events (wedding, birthday, birth of a child);
- failures in time - a person is somewhere, not remembering how and why he got there;
- a person is blamed for lying, although he is sure that he is telling the truth (this is manifested in relation to events that fall out of memory);
- the sudden appearance of sick things - and he does not remember how they got to him;
- with strangers, these patients communicate as if they know them, or they know someone like that;
- people turn to the patient by a name that seems to him unfamiliar;
- the patient has documents and papers that he wrote himself, but the handwriting in them differs sharply from the usual;
- the patient talks about extraneous voices in the head;
- gradually the patient moves farther and farther away from reality;
- the patient himself feels that he is more than one person.
This diagnosis will be confirmed if a person has at least two individuals who are in turn controlling one's body. Any splitting is accompanied by amnesia - each person has separate, own memories (in the place of memories of one person from another person - a failure in memory).
Dissociative personality disorder - general information
This is a fairly common disease - at least 3% of patients in each psychiatric clinic suffer from splitting or splitting the personality. This personality disorder is more characteristic of women than men who suffer from it about nine times less.
This disease has many kinds, but in any of the cases an additional personality - or personality - arises. All of them have different character, their opinion, views on life. In many people, different personalities reacted differently to external events in different ways. The most surprising thing is that different personalities of the same person had different physiological parameters: pulse, pressure, sometimes even voice and manner of speaking.
Even today, the cause of this disease has not been established, but the most common opinion is the idea that dissociative personality disorder arises because of
In the international classification of diseases, this disorder is listed as a "multiple personality disorder", but some specialists tend not to recognize this disease. They argue that the vast majority of people who have experienced stress in their childhood do not suffer from such a disorder. In addition, many patients did not experience the shocks of such a plan.
To treat dissociative disorders, psychotherapy and special drugs that suppress symptoms are used.