Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder

[James, Group Founder]

Doing some research on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) for a film project I'm doing.

Anyone read much on this subject?
Or has anyone been diagnosed with DID in this group?

Been watching a few videos on DID like these ones:

23-Year-Old Describes What It’s Like To Live With Multiple Personalities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opi1I...

Meet My Alters / Personalities | Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjemK...

[Harry]

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities is probably the most famous example (16 distinct personalities!), which was also made into a film.

[James, Group Founder]

Some headlines on DID that a researcher friend sent me...

DID in a nutshell (5 points):
1. Amnesia
2. Identity confusion
3. Identity alteration
4. Depersonalisation
5. Derealisation

Apparently there are tests used to very accurately identify true DID.

DID can vary slightly between cultures.

WESTERNERS see the "self as seperate, autonomous, self-contained and independent"
Our preoccupation "with individualism leads to experiences of self as separate or independent of others"

NON-WESTERNERS "endorse an interdependent self, which fosters experiences of self as entwined with the expectations and needs of others."

Childhood attachment-based trauma is the universal factor and social idioms a self produce component of cultural specificity.

A neurophysilogical profile has been performed on DID which underlines deficient functionality of orbitofrontal region in the brain.

PET and fMRI have been performed on patients during "switching" between identities in a DID patient and the actually identities in DID patient.

EEG and QEEG have also been done.

There are electrophysiological differences between identity states.

There has also been a study done on the cognitive correlations of DID
"incipient dissolution of amnesia, traumatic childhood memories may return initially as sensorymotor fragments (images, body sensations) rather than as verbal narrative.