Monday, March 12, 2012

Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder)



When you look at the Wikipedia entry for Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) -- formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder -- you find that it has a number of possible symptoms that are also symptoms named in the nine main diagnostic criteria for BPD.  Some overlapping symptoms include:


  • Depersonalization
  • Depression
  • Derealization
  • Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states
  • Distortion or loss of subjective time
  • Flashbacks of abuse/trauma
  • [...] panic/anxiety attacks
  • Identity confusion
  • Mood swings
  • Paranoia
  • Pseudoseizures or other conversion symptoms [looks like epileptic seizures --S.H.]
  • Self-alteration (feeling as if one's body belongs to someone else)
  • Sudden anger without a justified cause
  • Spontaneous trance states
  • Suicidal and para-suicidal behaviors (such as self injury)
  • Unexplainable phobias