Dissociative+Identity+Disorder+-+Natalie+Lam

=__ Dissociative Identity Disorder - Natalie Lam 9. 6 __= The first case was found in 1791. It is written in great details. A 20 year old girl began to speak perfect French and behave like French, spoke German with French accent and also behavlike German. When her personality is behaves like French, she remembered everything, but when she is behaves like German, she will denied all the knowledge of the herself being French. During the late 19th century, a person who studies dissociative identity disorder found out that in different personalities, they don’t only have different emotions/allergy, they can also be paralyze in some but able to move in the others.
 * 1)   __A few cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder :)__

2) __The common and scientific name of the disease__. The common name of this disease is called multiple personality disorder. And its scientific name is dissociative identity disorder.

3) __What causes it? How is it transmitted?__ It is caused by being emotional (being ignored), physical (torture), sexual abuse during childhood. It can only be transmitted when (s)he does the same thing that (s)he experienced during childhood on other children.

4) __What are the symptoms? How long do they last? Is it deadly?__ __Symptom 1__: Amnesia - Lost of childhood memories  __Symptom 2__: Depersonalization - Have a feeling that his/her body is unreal  __Symptom 3__: Derealization - (S)he thinks that the external environment is unreal.  __Symptom 4__: Identity Disturbances - (S)he suddenly have different personalities. Eg The “Host” (main personality) might be really shy/lack of confident, but suddenly, (s)he became so bold/confident.  This last until it is treated. But it is not deadly, unless one of his/her personalities wants to commit suicide.

5) __Can it be cured? If so, how? If not, is there any way that we can at least treat it?__
This disease can be cured. But it last for 5-7 years or even more. There are 3 main treatments to cure this disease. __Treatment 1__: Psychotherapy - (S)he should go to see a specially trained therapist. The therapist’s training is really important, because the patient might switches personality, which will be very confusing. __Treatment 2__: Medications - Normally, doctors will keep medication to minimum. Because the patients will become psychologically dependent on drugs. __Treatment 3__: Hypnosis -It helps patients to recover repressed ideas and memories. media type="youtube" key="gfiB82OUXf0?fs=1" height="385" width="480"
 *  X - Tra: 97-98% Percentage of patients having identity dissociative identity disorder because of Child Abuse **

References:
 * [|__http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Dissociative-identity-disorder.html__]
 * [|__http://www.fortea.us/english/psiquiatria/history.htm__]
 *  [|__http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder__] \
 * [|__http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/DID.html__]
 * [|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder__]