Dissociative Identity Disorder Analysis

Dissociative Identity Disorder is comorbid with several different psychiatric disorders. Some of these disorders are borderline personality disorder, conversion disorder, substance use disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Even though it is comorbid with all these other disorders, dissociative identify disorder is actually quite rare. Most current studies place the prevalence of DID between 0.1% to 2% (DID Prevalence, 2016). Some studies find that DID is up to nine times more common in females than males, other studies place the rates of prevalence equal for both groups or claim that males are slightly more likely to have dissociative identity disorder (DID Prevalence, 2016). This is thought to be the case because it is less likely …show more content…
For starters there are three main types alters a person can or will experience. These alters are childlike, persecutor, and the protector. The childlike alter tends to be the most common alter, because of abuse a person faced when they were younger. This alter plays the role of the victim and allows the other person to be in a state of hiding. The persecutor alter inflicts punishment or pain onto the other personalities. It does this by self-harming, which even include attempted suicides. The last alter is the protector. The protector, or the helper, gives advice to the other personalities. According to our textbook, this alter sometimes controls the switching from one personality to another or act as passive observers who can report on the thoughts and intentions of all the other personalities (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2017). These alters affect the daily lives of a person with DID. One thing a person with DID goes through is denial. It is common for people diagnosed with this disorder to feel like they’re making a bigger deal about a situation than what is necessary, and they feel as if their trauma wasn’t bad enough to be going through something such as dissociations. Also due to the media perception, people who are diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder are afraid of the stigma that comes along with the disorder. Some people who before they were diagnosed were frightened and confused as to what is happening to them. They struggle to find the right help that they

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