Dissociative identity disorder can it be cured

Under appropriate circumstances memories can be regained and worked through. They can, but they usually do not. Typically those with dissociative identity disorder experience symptoms for six years or more before being correctly diagnosed and treated.

Dissociation is a common coping mechanism, especially in the face of trauma. Many rape victims experience the crime as though they were floating above their bodies, feeling sorry for the person beneath them. Many of us find ways to detach ourselves from painful or unpleasant experiences. However, people typically restore their usual perspective over time. Those with dissociative disorders experience persistent amnesia, depersonalization, derealization or fragmentation of identity that actually interferes with the normal process of working through and putting into perspective traumatic or stressful experiences.

Dissociative disorders involve problems with memory, identity, emotion, perception, behavior and sense of self. Dissociative symptoms can potentially disrupt every area of mental functioning. Learn More. View More. I agree. Many thanks. Be careful what you read and what you choose to believe,not everything you read online is truth.

Many people have been cured. Nothing in this article is true at all. I know this because I have been cured. How long did it take you get better and how have you been cured which method was effective on you.. Thank you, Aaron, for your comment. What fantastic news to hear that you are symptom-free! However, it is important to note that not every person has the same experience and many people are only able to manage their DID.

I believe that I have two personalities one being normal and myself but the other seems more selfish and angry like i wanna hurt someone but it only is triggered when I'm at home when someone makes me feel hurt but the other me always hate myself after I blow up on my parents. I don;t feel in control. Is this DiD? Can I fix this? I needed to weigh in here. Dissociative identity disorder is a developmental mental health disorder.

What that means is the brains of we who live with the disorder have developmental issues. Our amygdalae and hippocampi are smaller than normal and we have problems with our pituitary glands.

All of that means memory, emotional, and stability problems. Our brains were structurally changed in childhood from the fight or flight hormones that continually flooded our small bodies and never went back to baseline. There is a lot of research to back this up. Also, we missed a very important milestone in childhood when it comes to personality consolidation association. Before the age of 5 children have very pliable and dissociated personalities.

You need only to listen to a young child playing alone to hear the disconnectedness. They will speak of themselves in the plural and so on. Around the age of 5 children this all changes. They consolidate associate their personality and pull all their ego states into one cohesive self. We with DID missed that milestone.

We were much too busy surviving and being ready to flee or fight. So we never associated our ego states our personality. We remained dissociated. It is absolutely impossible for us to go back and consolidate into a single person. We are forever dissociated. However, like was said in this article, that does not mean we need to remain in chaos forever.

We can learn to move together as one unit and live fairly normal lives. Being a person with DID is not a death sentence nor does it mean no life.

It takes time, devotion and a good therapist to go through the integration stage and work together for the common good of the DID system. Living with DID is difficult sometimes, but it is my normal. I don't worry about being "like everybody else" nor do I think I'm special.

I do not ask for special treatment, and I do not expect it. What I do want is for people to learn more about my disorder and for movie producers to end the intolerable use of DID in their horrid movie plots so that the stigma against folks like me will end.

This was a very insightful and truthful article. I understand there is a lot of fear involved when speaking about integration and a "cure" but there doesn't need to be. My point was that this is simply playing with words which could hurt someone in fatal sense.

Thank you for your time reacting, I really do appreciate it. Instead of looking at biochemical changes in brain, you just state there is no changes and there is no cure, with no valid resources. You are overlooking pretty much all the important aspects of what happens in brain in what stages of traumatic experiences and creation of personalities and why.

I wish everyone here with DID well and hope you stay strong. They most likely know what they are doing.

My writing has helped more people than I can count right now. I know what happens in the brain, which is why I know the changes that happen early in childhood that result in DID can never been changed back to the way the brain should have developed.

Even with neuroplasticity, a person with DID will never have a neurotrophic always brain. Even integrated, a person with DID will always be at risk of dissociating as soon as another trauma is experienced. That risk never goes away. I assure you, I am not delusional.

And I assure you, my therapist is actually one of the best in the US regarding dissociative disorders. Perhaps you are not aware, but the trend in the field is towards functional multiplicity, not towards integration. There are many successful people with DID who did not integrate. It has nothing to do with being special.

People who are integrated show better life outcomes than functional multiples. I would rather have an integrated personality because my alters are not whole people and neither am I.

One may hold more angry feelings and another more kind and forgiving feelings. I would like to be able to hold the full spectrum of feelings at once if that makes sense? I would like to be able to switch from sweet to sarcastic me without a headache. I want to talk more to people on the outside than on the inside. I want to learn to process my trauma in real time.

The idea that I will never be integrated is so sad for me because these alters really exist to hold pain and anger that I want to let go. I understand a new trauma could make me disintegrate, but let me dream of allowing myself to feel whole. John Bradshaw used to make a distinction between healing and curing. Curing makes the problem go away. Healing makes things better. There are traumas we can't cure but I don't think there are any traumas we can't heal.

Turning away from fear and toward acceptance and eventually love seems to be a common path of healing. Stephen Levine remarked "It's just fear. But her life wasn't always this picture-perfect. It took many years, much therapy, and several hospitalizations before she was able to remember the trauma she'd suffered as a youngster and for doctors to accurately diagnose and begin to treat the DID when she was Exactly what causes dissociative identity disorder is not fully understood, but up to one percent of the population may develop it, often in response to severe childhood trauma, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI.

Like Stevens, people living with DID are more likely to be depressed, anxious, and even suicidal. The average number is 10, and Stevens had about seven. Typically, these so-called alters develop to help the core personality cope with trauma, and what Stevens went through was nothing short of horrific.

She was sexually victimized from age 8 through 14 in a child sex ring and developed an alter to help her cope with the rapes while they were happening.