Dissociative personality disorder( hereinafter referred to as convenience of DRL) is an extremely rare psychiatric disorder , in this disorder the whole personality of a person separates and gives the impression that there are several independent people in the body at the same time.
The process of changing the personality proceeds by "switching", after which one person replaces the other. These so-called "personalities" can have their own names, have different gender and nationality, age and temperament, one being a poet, the other dumb, differing in the level of intelligence and their worldview.
These "personalities" of are divided among themselves by amnesia barriers , that is, after switching one person does not remember the other.
Even physiological parameters such as blood pressure and heart rate may vary.
In women, DRL occurs 9 times more often than in men, but some doctors believe that these data are incorrect, since in men the diagnosis of this disease is difficult.
Causes of the disorder
Because of its rarity, dissociative personality disorder as a diagnosis has been questioned for a long time.
The causes of can become severe emotional shocks in early childhood, violence of an emotional, physical or sexual nature.
This is an extreme manifestation of the dissociation of the personality - a protective mechanism against intolerable emotions, in which a person begins to perceive a particular situation as happening to someone else.
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Symptoms and signs
Dissociative personality disorder is characterized by such symptoms:
- Amnesia. These may be memory dips, in which even important events such as a wedding, the birthday of children or even the fact of the existence of children can fall.
- Memory failures in which a patient arriving at a certain place does not know how he came to be here.
- Appearance in the house of things about the origin of which a person can not remember.
- Some people try to communicate with a person believing that they are familiar with it, while the patient himself says that he sees them for the first time.
- Other people call the patient a stranger to him by names.
- Finding notes and documents that are written in a different handwriting, but only you could leave them there.
- Sensation of unreality of what is happening.
- There is a feeling that you are also another person, with a different life.
It should be remembered that despite the similarity of DRL with some manifestations of schizophrenia, with DRL there is formation of complex with deep internal 
connections of personalities, and in schizophrenia, only certain personal qualities are cleaved, which leads to the disintegration of the personality itself.
Also, the patient may have symptoms that some doctors associate with childhood traumas , and not with DRL.
This is depression, suicide attempts, a sense of lostness, a misunderstanding of who I am, worries growing into phobias and panic attacks. Some may have hallucinations.
How to identify DRL using the
test The dissociative personality disorder test is used for a preliminary assessment of a patient.
It includes a number of issues with answer options from never do, until constantly do.
Questions relate to common social issues: problems with law enforcement agencies, compliance with social norms, propensity to spontaneous actions, or vice versa, how inclined to planning, how often you lie and use others, whether you feel guilty, hard for you to work in the system, do you loveyou risk and how much your actions are dangerous to others.
Helping the patient
There is simply no medical treatment that can cure DRL, and taking medications is often associated only with the goal of relieving some symptoms( for example, depression).
Treatment usually occurs with the involvement of several types of psychotherapy - cognitive( phobia and depression are only a consequence of wrong beliefs and attitudes), family as well as clinical hypnosis.
With the help of these techniques, they try to alleviate the symptoms, to ensure the patient's safety with the subsequent reorganization of his individual personalities into one whole and well-functioning identity.
Some doctors successfully apply to the technique of internally oriented psychotherapy , which reveals problems from childhood, because of which it is possible and came the DRL.
Analysis of the problem with its subsequent overcoming, allows you to remove the defensive mechanism that worked, which shared the personality of the patient.
Also positive is the intermediate result, in which there is a conflict-free cooperation of individual "personalities" with each other.
It is recommended that the treating physician not become one of the parties to an internal conflict, but treat with due respect all the alter ego of the patient.
Prevention
For many, maintaining a healthy psychological climate in the family is a less understandable task than for example the treatment of the FLU, for the prevention of which a vaccine can be used.
The formation of drug or alcohol dependence annually destroys millions of persons around the world. At the same time, the dependent people themselves suffer so much, and the worst is children.
For example, third-world countries use legalized child labor in industry and agriculture. In terms of its conditions, it is no different from slave labor in the darkest moments of human history.
According to statistics, 98% of patients with ADD in adulthood describe various bullying and violence in childhood.
In conclusion, I want to say - take care of the mental health of the family and childhood of your kids, appreciate their personality in them and everything will be fine with you.
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