Dissociative Identity Disorder

DID is one of those mental disturbance which causes a lot of problems for the particular individual suffering with it. Sometimes people often consider him/her as a psycho or mental patient. Patients with such disorder have to face a lot, we or any normal person can't even imagine about his struggles. Not only him, his family also has to suffer very much. In our society, people judge anyone too quickly, and because of this fact individuals and their family, with any disability or abnormality are treated in very different way than the normal persons. 

Symptoms:-

1. Amnesia:- Amnesia is the problem associated with memory. In this condition the person became unable to memorize events for a particular time. This memory loss can be temporary and sometimes it is permanent.

2.Headache:- Headache is common in almost every emotional behavior. However it's frequency varies from one to another. It is mild in some cases while severe in other.

3. Identity confusion or Identity alterations:- Confusion in identities or alterations in identity is also observed in some cases. Identity alterations or identity confusion, in this the particular individual suffering forgot about his/her own identity and consider himself/herself as another character.

4. Suicidal thoughts:- The patient who have to face this fight a lot with society as well as with himself. So it's very common that a person may develop these type of thoughts. As per the reports from 10 cases, two of the patient commit suicide or were trying to do so.

Treatments:-

Therapy:- The therapies that are used to control it's symptoms are Electroconvulsive therapy and psychotherapy. Therapies are much suggested by the doctor for these disorder, than the other medication, as therapies doesn't have that much side effects as the drugs.

Medication:- There is not any particular medicine for the treatment of this. But there are few medicines like some antipsychotic or antidepressants drugs are suggested. 

If you wanted to know more about this disorder, you can watch movies like Sybil and Three faces of Eve, in English and Hindi movies like Aparichit in Hindi. These movies have clearly shown the symptoms as well as cause of this disorder.

By:- Shubhranjali Dwivedi

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