Causes Of Dissociative Identity Disorder In Tv Shows

Each identity has unique characteristics whether or not the personalities are aware of each other. The Mayo Clinic’s article states, “Each identity may have a unique name, personal history and characteristics, including obvious differences in voice, gender, mannerisms and even such physical qualities as the need for eyeglasses” (Mayo Clinic Staff). People with dissociative identity disorder may experience amnesia from time to time. The Cleveland Clinic’s article states, “The person may experience amnesia when an alter takes control over the person’s behavior” (“Dissociative Identity Disorder”). In certain instances, patients with DID may actually benefit from their disorder. The Cleveland Clinic’s article states, “In some cases, the person with DID may benefit from a particular alter (for example, a shy person may use a more assertive alter to negotiate a contract)” (“Dissociative Identity Disorder”). Though, in most cases, people suffering from dissociative identity disorder will have problems and added chaos in their lives due to their disorder. The Cleveland Clinic’s article also states, “More often DID creates a chaotic life and problems in personal and work relationships. For example, a woman with DID may repeatedly meet people who seem to know her but whom she does not recognize or remember ever meeting. Or she may find items around the home that she does not remember buying” (“Dissociative Identity Disorder”).

Dissociative identity disorder is called a multiple personality disorder up until 1994 when they changed the name to give us a better understanding of the condition. Some people believe that patients with DID can become easily hypnotized and their symptoms are iatrogenic, "meaning they have arisen in response to therapists' suggestions. Brain imaging studies, however, have corroborated identity transitions in some patients." Usually a primary identity will carry the individual's name and is passive, dependent, guilty, and depressed. When an

Alters are “distinct personalities with their own ways of thinking and behaving” and they are all different from the original personality. (Kasschau 462) One of her alters who appears in the series is Bryce Craine; he is Tara’s abusive Alter and he is based on her step-brother who molested her when she was younger. Bryce died in the 2002 from a self inflicted gunshot wound, but Tara is still affected by him because of what he did to her when she was younger. Tara uses the presence of her other alters to protect herself from Bryce (The United States). Tara is in fact hysterical, but traumatic events that happened to her as a child caused a mental illness to occur. She doesn’t change personalities willingly because she’s crazy; instead, she changes them because it is her own body’s coping mechanism of dealing with the traumatic events of her

This paper discusses Dissociative Identity Disorder and the relevance and portrayal of this mental illness in the American television show, United States of Tara. Tara’s family deals with her mental illness in different ways, which is evaluated in this paper. Also discussed in detail are the characters in the show. Tara has seven separate alters; each has their own personality and characteristics. They all have a role to play in Tara’s mental illness. Additionally, each alter is useful during specific stressful situations, which is analyzed in this paper. The characteristics of Dissociative Identity Disorder are discussed, according to the findings in Comer’s 2008 publication of Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology. Later, these findings are compared to the show and its portrayal of this Dissociative Identity Disorder.

     Sometimes people undergo traumatic experiences in their lives that are either physical or mental and maybe even a combination of both. If the experience was so intense, and so horrible, that the mind didn’t want to remember it, or possibly didn’t know how to deal or cope with it, then that one experience has the power to split a person’s mind into “another personality”. If this happens, the other personality or personalities come out when a person who has MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) is put in a situation that he/she doesn’t know how to handle or feels that the other personality can handle it better. People suffering from MPD also have the risk of developing some

A dissociative amnesia may be present when a person is unable to remember important personal information, which is usually associated with a traumatic event in his/her life. The loss of memory creates gaps in this individual's personal history.

Introduction: I have chosen this subject in order to maybe understand it better, in a way that hopefully it becomes easier for me to deal with it, this condition to which I have become very familiar with, not because I study it but because I am one who suffers from such disorder; this is what I call the side of the coin that no one see. Although I don’t think is such a bad thing, some have given this disorder a serious bad image to which as usual the media have distortion its image to a point where we have become and sometimes feel as if we were in a glass box. By first hand I have experienced how for example a potential job interview changes its trajectory once is discovered that I might suffer from such disorder.

An article is Psychology Today, refers to individuals that is diagnosed with DID portrays personalities the controls their behavior and awareness. The personalities are referred to as "alters" which can have their own sex, race, gesture, posture, and that I own way of

Dissociation is defined as “a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person 's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity” (Grohol, 2016). The Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a severe condition in which two or more separate, distinct identities or personality states are present in an individual. In other words, a person has, what seems like, actual distinct and contrasting people in their head and these “alters” are able to take control of an individual’s mind and body at any time and act as a completely different individual. Each alter is capable of having its own set of likes, dislikes, talents, memories, and personal experiences. The alters’ usually have a specific name, age, gender and possibly race. According to Psychology Today (2014), the alters’ characteristics are typically very different from the primary identity, including their history, self-image, vocabulary, knowledge and predominant mood. The primary identity tends to be passive, dependent, guilty and depressed. A person with DID experiences extensive memory loss which is typically more extensive than what would be experienced by ordinary forgetfulness. For instance, if an alter were to take over, once the individual is back in control of his or her own body, they typically report not remembering anything that was done or said. Some individuals report feeling “familiar” with the conversations or experiences that were had by the alter, but as if they had only overheard

Lawsuits regarding RMT that associated with recovering realistic false memory and experiences of the patients, illustrates that the treatments is not suitable for patients as the author further exemplifies a study regarding an experiments where they planted fake memory about alien abduction in the patients’ mind which resulted in having more realistic experiences compare to the control group. This shows that fake memory could produce realistic experiences towards the patients and could lead to severe consequences. Parts work therapy on the other hand deals with identifying and labeling parts of an individual’s personality usually without the diagnosis of DID. Parts work is commonly associated with IFS therapy that assume traumatic patients poses subpersonalities of DID in order to cope their aversive events which usually link with negative traits. These traits are ‘treated’ in order to uncover the true-Self which is the ultimate goal of the therapy. Although the treatment sound legitimate, but there are insufficient evidence in supporting the therapy

The primary cause of Dissociative Identity Disorder appears to be severe and prolonged trauma experienced during childhood. The traumatic events therefore remain sealed off – dissociated and unprocessed. This will result a partial amnesia from what has happened.

In asking the question of what abnormal psychology is really supposed to be, it makes sense that we must first quickly think about the very definition of our word "abnormal¨. By all rights, is a remarkably puzzling word that is very dependent on what is called "normality¨. Both terms may justifiably change fundamentally from one era to another and one culture to a different one. How then do we choose upon what is abnormal and what is normal? Of course, this is much more of a philosophical issue than a psychological one. For logical reasons of practicability, it is essential to generate an approximately uniform definition of abnormal psychology that we can more or less decide upon as a cluster of caregivers. This general definition would obviously be typical in its nature, but the shared definition of the subject of abnormal psychology habitually looks something like this: Abnormal psychology is the research of behavior designs that deviate widely from usually acknowledged norms, particularly those of a compulsive nature (Medved, M. L.,2008). Nevertheless, when it comes to popular culture and reality television, how do these shows depicted abnormal behavior. In this essay I will discuss how a reality TV show called "Jersey Show" depicts abnormal psychology.

This research paper is about Dissociative identity disorder (DID) as known as multiple personality disorder. DID in which a person could have many different parts to their personality due to severe stress and an experience of a trauma. A person with DID when the have control over their one identity they cannot remember what they did when their other identities were in control. Most of the time people with DID have two personalities but they could have more than two which is referred as alters. Then it’s a task for the professionals to communicate with the different personalities and have an effective relationship with any personality that causes the violence, destructive behavior and find a way to terminate it. Dissociative identity

Dissociative identity disorder, or better known as multiple personality disorder, is a severe form of dissociation where there is a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity (WebMD, 2014). Usually people who suffer from multiple personalities have gone through some kind of trauma which causes them to be someone else in a way so that they can cope with these events. The person dissociates themselves from a situation or experience that’s too violent, traumatic, or painful to assimilate with his/her conscious self (WebMD, 2014). Related to the movie, Alice went through a severe traumatic event and tries to forget and block it out by creating Kristen and the 4 other girls on the ward.

The definite cause of DID is unknown, but one main cause of the disorder is believed to be severe and prolonged trauma experienced during childhood, including emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Symptoms of DID can include: an inability to remember large parts of childhood, sudden return of memories, as in a flashback and/or flashback to traumatic events, episodes of feeling disconnected or detached from one's body and thoughts, hallucinations, changing levels of functioning, from highly effective to nearly disabled, depression, anxiety, alcohol and/or drug abuse, headaches, and eating disorders. DID is a serious mental illness that occurs across all ethnic groups and all income levels, but has been proven to affect women nine times more than men. Research has shown that the average age for the initial development of alters is 5.9 years old. Statistics show that DID occurs in 0.01 to 1 percent of the general population (Mayo, 2014).