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What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?

Most experts agree that dissociative identity disorder, sometimes shortened to “DID”, is one of the most unusual and dramatic personality disorders, posing lots of challenges and unanswered questions for both researchers and clinicians.

Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personalities.

Most often, people with dissociative identity disorder have a primary personality which can be passive, hesitant, depressed, and dependent. However, his or her alternative personalities may be at the opposite pole, displaying extraversion, openness, and charm.

Furthermore, alternative personalities may have different genders or ages and exhibit different preferences, interests, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings in someone with DID.

These personalities take over successively, changing the person’s entire attitude towards himself or herself, others, and the world. When one personality ‘takes the wheel,’ the rest remain on ‘standby.’

In other words, if a personality is on standby, it dissociates or detaches itself and does not know what happened while it was on standby. And that’s why people with this condition can struggle to recall significant portions of their everyday life.

The impact that dissociative identity disorder has on one's personal and professional life depends significantly on the number of existing personalities. But as you can probably imagine people who suffer from dissociative identity disorder face numerous challenges.

Signs of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Experts agree that even though DID occurs during childhood, symptoms become obvious during adolescence and may worsen when the person reaches adulthood.

The main signs of dissociative identity disorder are:

  • Presence of dreams and painful memories
  • Lack of focus
  • Seizures – especially in response to trauma or unpleasant memories
  • Unexpected changes in clothing, activities, and preferences
  • Feelings of detachment and dissociation
  • Memory loss
  • Lack of sleep
  • Dizziness and confusion
  • Lack of temporal and spatial awareness
  • Pesence of two or more personalities which trigger behavioral and emotional changes that may be labeled as ‘bizarre’ or ‘baffling’ by others.

Aside from the symptoms mentioned above, one reliable indicator of dissociative identity disorder is dissociative amnesia. In other words, the person is unable to recall recent important or stressful events. Dissociative amnesia can result in anxiety and depressive symptoms.

How is Dissociative Identity Disorder Treated?

DID can be a severe mental illness that wreaks havoc into the lives of those who are dealing with it. Unfortunately, there are no treatments designed specifically for dissociative identity disorder at this time.

However, mental health professionals can use a wide range of pharmacological and therapeutic approaches that can help people manage the unpleasant effects of this condition and enjoy a relatively stable life.

Medication

Although there are no drugs that target this condition, psychiatrists often prescribe antidepressants or anxiolytics to help with the anxiety and depressive episodes associated with dissociative identity disorder.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the most popular form of intervention for dissociative identity disorder. Depending on the severity of the symptoms and number of alternative personalities, people with this condition could stay in therapy for years before reaching the point where they can take full control over their life.

It’s important to remember that the primary goal of therapy isn’t to reduce all personalities to one but to teach the person to handle all personalities and make them work harmoniously toward the same personal and professional achievements.

And so the purpose of therapy is to help the client understand their condition, increase awareness, control emotions and impulses, cultivate stable interpersonal relationships, and manage stress.

Psychological Counseling Services - Screening Test for Dissociative Identity Disorder

Screening Test for Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative Experiences Scale

Instructions for Completing this Screening Test:

This questionnaire consists of twenty-eight questions about experiences you may have in your daily life. We are interested in how often you have these experiences (only when you are not under the influence of alcohol or drugs).

When answering, please determine the degree in which the experience described in the question applies to you as a percentage of the time you have the experience. 'Never' corresponds to 0% of the time and 'Always', corresponds to 100% of the time. The range covers 0% to 100% in 10% increments.

Please note: You MUST answer every question for the test to score correctly.

1. Some people have the experience of driving or riding in a car or bus or subway and suddenly realizing that they don't remember what has happened during all or part of the trip.

(Never)            (Always)

2. Some people find that sometimes they are listening to someone talk and they suddenly realize that they did not hear part or all of what was said.

(Never)            (Always)

3. Some people have the experience of finding themselves in a place and having no idea how they got there.

(Never)            (Always)

4. Some people have the experience of finding themselves dressed in clothes that they don't remember putting on.

(Never)            (Always)

5. Some people have the experience of finding new things among their belongings that they do not remember buying.

(Never)            (Always)

6. Some people sometimes find that they are approached by people that they do not know who call them by another name or insist that they have met them before.

(Never)            (Always)

7. Some people sometimes have the experience of feeling as though they are standing next to themselves or watching themselves do something and they actually see themselves as if they were looking at another person.

(Never)            (Always)

8. Some people are told that they sometimes do not recognize friends or family members.

(Never)            (Always)

9. Some people find that they have no memory for some important events in their lives (for example, a wedding or graduation).

(Never)            (Always)

10. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied.

(Never)            (Always)

11. Some people have the experience of looking in a mirror and not recognizing themselves.

(Never)            (Always)

12. Some people have the experience of feeling that other people, objects, and the world around them are not real.

(Never)            (Always)

13. Some people have the experience of feeling that their body does not seem to belong to them.

(Never)            (Always)

14. Some people have the experience of sometimes remembering a past event so vividly that they feel as if they were reliving that event.

(Never)            (Always)

15. Some people have the experience of not being sure whether things that they remember happening really did happen or whether they just dreamed them.

(Never)            (Always)

16. Some people have the experience of being in a familiar place but finding it strange and unfamiliar.

(Never)            (Always)

17. Some people find that when they are watching television or a movie they become so absorbed in the story that they are unaware of other events happening around them.

(Never)            (Always)

18. Some people find that they become so involved in a fantasy or daydream that it feels as though it were really happening to them.

(Never)            (Always)

19. Some people find that they sometimes are able to ignore pain.

(Never)            (Always)

20. Some people find that that they sometimes sit staring off into space, thinking of nothing, and are not aware of the passage of time.

(Never)            (Always)

21. Some people sometimes find that when they are alone they talk out loud to themselves.

(Never)            (Always)

22. Some people find that in one situation they may act so differently compared with another situation that they feel almost as if they were two different people.

(Never)            (Always)

23. Some people sometimes find that in certain situations they are able to do things with amazing ease and spontaneity that would usually be difficult for them (for example, sports, work, social situations, etc.).

(Never)            (Always)

24. Some people sometimes find that they cannot remember whether they have done something or have just thought about doing that this (for example, not knowing whether they have just mailed a letter or have just thought about mailing it).

(Never)            (Always)

25. Some people find evidence that they have done things that they do not remember doing.

(Never)            (Always)

26. Some people sometimes find writings, drawings, or notes among their belongings that they must have done but cannot remember doing.

(Never)            (Always)

27. Some people sometimes find that they hear voices inside their head that tell them to do things or comment on things that they are doing.

(Never)            (Always)

28. Some people sometimes feel as if they are looking at the world through a fog so that people and objects appear far away or unclear.

(Never)            (Always)


The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) was developed by Eve Bernstein Carlson, Ph.D. and Frank W. Putnam, M.D.

 

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Training courses often include tests to test knowledge. In this case, a successful test solution may be required to complete the course or move to the next section. If the student fails the test, they must first re-learn the entire course material and then try to take the test again. nine0003

Setting up such a script with the iSpring tools is very easy. Let's take a closer look at how to do this.

  1. Open the presentation to which you want to add a verification test.

  2. Add a quiz to the desired presentation slide.

  3. Click Properties on the toolbar.

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  4. In the test properties, on the Basic tab, select one attempt to pass and click OK.

  5. Click Save and Return to Course to save your changes.

  6. To set up test rules, go to Presentation Structure.

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  7. Select the test slide, click on the Test icon and check Settings.

  8. In the test settings, check the Restart failed test on revisit option.

  9. In the settings for viewing slides after the test, select After passing the test. So the user will not be able to go to the next slide of the presentation until he passes the test. nine0003

  10. Now we need to set up branching for the quiz to redirect the user to a specific slide in the presentation based on whether they passed the quiz or failed. Select the test slide, click on the Test icon and check Branching.

  11. On the Test Branching tab, set up the desired slides and click OK. In this example, branching is set up so that if the test is passed successfully, the user goes to the next slide after the test, and if it fails, the user returns to the first slide of the course. nine0003

  12. To prevent the user from switching from the test to another slide in the presentation using the table of contents, change the Layout for the test slide to Slide Only in the presentation outline.

  13. Click Save and Close and return to the presentation.

  14. Save your changes and publish the course.


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