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SYMPTOMS:
Depression
Mood swings
Sleep disorders
Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias
Compulsions and rituals
Psychotic-like symptoms,
hallucinations
Eating disorders
Amnesia
Depersonalisation
Identity alteration
Biological discoveries:
Neuroimaging has located irregularities in the
orbitofrontal cortex (emotion and decision making),
hippocampus(memory) and amygdala (regulates
emotion)
Different identities provoke different cardiovascular
responses and cerebral activation patterns to
traumatic memories.
Treatment:
References
Reinders, A. A. T., Nijenhuis, E. R., Quak, J., Korf, J., Haaksma, J., Paans,
Willemsen, A. T. M., & den Boer, J. A. (2006). Psychobiological
characteristics of dissociative identity disorder: A symptom provocation
study. Biological psychiatry, 60(7), 730-740.
Grohol, J. M. (2013). Dissociative Identity Disorder Treatment
Also Known as Multiple Personality Disorder. Retrieved December 11, 2014,
from http://www.psychcentral.com