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 *   Trauma and schizophrenia equals to DID


 *   The first case was recorded in 1856
 *   In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association documented DID as a genuine illness.
 *   Other psychiatric professionals didn’t think that this illness existed and that patients were just using it to get what they wanted.
 *   From 1980 to 1990 there has been 20,000 cases reported
 *   D.I.D affects your feelings, memory, physical sensation etc.
 *   Patients can have from 2 to 100 personalities
 *   The average of identities is 10
 *   All personalities have their own unique way of personalizing their self’s
 *   The identities can take over one by one or can be in the body all at the same time
 *   Changing from personalities are called “switching”
 *   DID can affect 1 out of 3 in the population
 *   Clinical studies conducted in North America, Europe, and Turkey suggest that between one and 20 percent of the patients from general inpatient psychiatric units, adolescent inpatient units, or those treated for substance abuse, eating disorders, and obsessive compulsive disorder meat the diagnostic criteria for DID.
 *   The DID from women to men ratio is approximately 9:1
 *   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.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 35.4pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo7; tab-stops: list 35.4pt; text-indent: -0.2in;">  common problems associated with DID are depression, substance abuse, eating disorder suicide, and self mutilation.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 35.4pt; mso-list: l9 level1 lfo6; tab-stops: list 35.4pt; text-indent: -0.2in;">  approximately 70 percent are diagnosed with DID meet the DMS-IV diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PSD)
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 35.4pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo5; tab-stops: list 35.4pt; text-indent: -0.2in;">  posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms exhibited by patients with DID include intrusive symptoms, hyperrousel, and avoidance and numbing symptoms
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 35.4pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list 35.4pt; text-indent: -0.2in;">  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.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 35.4pt; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 35.4pt; text-indent: -0.2in;">  Some of the somatoform symptoms present in patients with DID include seizure like episodes, headaches, abdominal, musculoskeletal, and pelvic pain, asthma and breathing problems.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.45in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .45in; text-indent: -0.2in;">  patients with DID also meet the criteria of mood disorders especially depression.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.45in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .45in; text-indent: -0.2in;">  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.


 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.45in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .45in; text-indent: -0.2in;">  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
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.45in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .45in; text-indent: -0.2in;">  the four main systems of dissociative identity disorder are amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, and identity disturbance.
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.45in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .45in; text-indent: -0.2in;">  a vary common manifestation of the disorder is amnesia or loss of time usally observed by those around the person
 * <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.45in; mso-list: l8 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .45in; text-indent: -0.2in;">  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.