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 * in DID women are calm while males are more aggressive and tend to end up in jail rather than getting hospitalized


 *   women make up more personality than men do.


 *   common problems associated with DID are depression, substance abuse, eating disorder suicide, and self mutilation.


 *   approximately 70 percent are diagnosed with DID meet the DMS-IV diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PSD)


 *   posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms exhibited by patients with DID include intrusive symptoms, hyperrousel, and avoidance and numbing symptoms


 *   approximately 40 to 60 percent of patients meet the somatoform criteria and have pain disorder or conversion due to multiple types of psychophysiology and somatoform (bodily) symptoms.


 *   Some of the somatoform symptoms present in patients with DID include seizure like episodes, headaches, abdominal, musculoskeletal, and pelvic pain, asthma and breathing problems.


 *   patients with DID also meet the criteria of mood disorders especially depression.


 *   Some of the symptoms that resemble mood disorders, include: mood swings, depressed mood, dysphoria (mood state characterized by sadness, anxiety, irritability, or restlessness), anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure), suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts, self-mutilation, helpless, hopeless, and guilt feelings, or sleeping problems.


 *   Some of the DID symptoms can resemble traits of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) such as: obsessive counting, singing, arranging, checking, or washing


 *   the four main systems of dissociative identity disorder are amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, and identity disturbance.


 *   a vary common manifestation of the disorder is amnesia or loss of time usally observed by those around the person


 *   Depersonalization is a dissociation symptom characterized by an alteration in the perception or experience of self, in which the patient either feels that their body is unreal, changing or dissolving, or detached from it, similar with an outside observer of their own mental processes or body while having no control over the situation.
 * Derealization, when is also a dissociation symptom in which the external world is perceive as strange or unreal


 * Identity Disturbance is one of the most distinct symptoms of dissociative identity disorder.