Famous Stars with Dissociative Identity Disorder!
For those who do not know, dissociation is a person seeing himself without having control over their body, which is similar to having an outer body experience. Dissociation is often reported to those who were sexually abuse, which causes them to forget what happen to them.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is formerly known as multiple personality disorder, which affects more females than males, as much as 3 to 9 times. Some people report to having DID symptoms as young as 8 to 12 years of age. Globally, this condition tends to occur in Europe and North American (1 to 5 percent), in particular, which affects the general population 1 to 3 percent.
This disorder gained awareness throughout the 1970s until 1990s; however, there are some, not a lot of, findings on the causes and treatment for this disorder. Unfortunately, the prognosis for this disorder is not great because individuals rarely a recovery from DID, which means there is no remedy at this time.
Main symptoms are memory lost, easily distracted, and daydreaming. DID is one of the most complicated disorders for clinicians to diagnose since this complex condition causes confusing and bewilderment. The reason this disorder is so tough to pinpoint because some clients ranging from having 2 to 16 different identities in a short amount of time, which is called alters. The legal and court system reported a lot of DID cases in recent years, which might be due to clinicians misdiagnosing their clients.
Example is a client changing their names to fit their identities, which cause the doctors to ask who are they talking to at the moment. Some clients may intentionally change their identities to help them cope with trauma or an abusive past; therefore, they use daydream or being a different person as a form of defensive mechanism to protect them from their unpleasant past.
Fortunately, treatments that usually useful for DID clients are cognitive therapy, talk therapy, and maybe Gestalt therapy to help those who battle with dissociation tendencies. Therapy technique to conquer dissociation would be to encourage clients to use their 5 sense by putting tapping themselves or using a stress ball. Inhale and exhale breathing is said to help those who are battle with dissociation. Optimistically, with the proper coping mechanism, people with DID can live a healthy, pleasant, and successful life. God Bless.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is formerly known as multiple personality disorder, which affects more females than males, as much as 3 to 9 times. Some people report to having DID symptoms as young as 8 to 12 years of age. Globally, this condition tends to occur in Europe and North American (1 to 5 percent), in particular, which affects the general population 1 to 3 percent.
This disorder gained awareness throughout the 1970s until 1990s; however, there are some, not a lot of, findings on the causes and treatment for this disorder. Unfortunately, the prognosis for this disorder is not great because individuals rarely a recovery from DID, which means there is no remedy at this time.
Main symptoms are memory lost, easily distracted, and daydreaming. DID is one of the most complicated disorders for clinicians to diagnose since this complex condition causes confusing and bewilderment. The reason this disorder is so tough to pinpoint because some clients ranging from having 2 to 16 different identities in a short amount of time, which is called alters. The legal and court system reported a lot of DID cases in recent years, which might be due to clinicians misdiagnosing their clients.
Example is a client changing their names to fit their identities, which cause the doctors to ask who are they talking to at the moment. Some clients may intentionally change their identities to help them cope with trauma or an abusive past; therefore, they use daydream or being a different person as a form of defensive mechanism to protect them from their unpleasant past.
Fortunately, treatments that usually useful for DID clients are cognitive therapy, talk therapy, and maybe Gestalt therapy to help those who battle with dissociation tendencies. Therapy technique to conquer dissociation would be to encourage clients to use their 5 sense by putting tapping themselves or using a stress ball. Inhale and exhale breathing is said to help those who are battle with dissociation. Optimistically, with the proper coping mechanism, people with DID can live a healthy, pleasant, and successful life. God Bless.
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