What Is a Dissociative Disorder?

Dissociation is a relatively new mental illness for everyone. In general, the incidence of dissociation is lower than other diseases, and the incidence is about 0.01% abroad. Nevertheless, newspapers, magazines, movies and other media often use this kind of disease as the theme, perhaps because this kind of mental illness is more dramatic. Dissociative disorders include "dissociative amnesia, dissociative labyrinthia, multiple personality abnormalities, and disappearance of self-awareness." Dissociation refers to the breakdown of memory, self-awareness, or cognition. The cause is usually extreme stress or deep trauma.

Basic Information

Visiting department

Psychiatry

Common causes

Extreme stress, deep trauma

Common symptoms

Self-identity disorder, self-identity change, unrealism, loss of self-consciousness, memory loss, etc.

Contagious

no

Clinical manifestations of dissociation

The main manifestations are self-identity chaos; self-identity changes; unrealism; self-losing feelings: seeing yourself as if you are looking at a "other", that is, I am no longer me; amnesia: losing memory.

1. Each has his or her own age, gender, and values. Each personality is complete, has its own memory, behavior, preferences, and can get along with others independently.

2. Know the existence of other personalities, and some do their own thing. In a certain period of time, at least one or two personalities will be in "on duty" status, and there will not be chaos in which several personalities compete for control.

3. The changing process between different personalities is usually sudden and dramatic, but even the best actors may be difficult to imitate, so patients are often mistaken for pretending to be sick.

4. Patients often have amnesia; or they feel that time passes quickly, or they do not remember what they did.

5. Patients have a high tendency to be implied, that is, they are easily hypnotized.

6. During the examination, there is almost nothing unusual; the aforementioned amnesia phenomenon is usually unable to see the abnormality of the patient in a single examination, and a long observation period is required to detect the mental state of the patient. On illness.

7. Multiple personality disorder is usually a long or lifetime illness.

Dissociation Treatment

The most ideal treatment: reshape the entire personality structure of multipersons, such as to get rid of the shadow of the traumatic experience of childhood abuse, let them learn to deal with stress in a mature way, and not to enter the less mature Personality traits or behavior patterns. Such a treatment process is usually full of hardships and frustrations, and requires endless tolerance, care and patience, and a high degree of psychotherapy skills.

Some patients with multiple personality will have a personality called "self-helper", this personality is usually positive, positive, similar to the patient's own spiritual teacher, so some psychologists will try to find out this personality, and its At the same time, help patients integrate personality, adjust ideas, and make patients heal.

Multiple personality and hypnosis are inextricably linked. Under hypnosis, most people who are hypnotized can be induced to multiple personality. The principle is that a strong excitement point can be formed in the central brain by hypnosis, thereby suppressing the excitement of the surrounding central system. Multiple personality is dominated by multiple strong excitement points. The conversion between personality is the multiple excitement point. However, inadvertent hypnosis may induce multiple personality disorders after hypnosis. Sometimes, patients may also have new personality types. Although people with multiple personalities are easily hypnotized, using hypnosis to prove that patients have multiple personalities is harmful and it is extremely difficult to eliminate the side effects caused by this treatment.

Medications have a fairly good effect on some of the more common symptoms (such as depression and anxiety), but they do not help dissociative identity disorder.