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Strategies for Healing Dissociative Identity Disorder
Treatment Helps
There are approximately 1–7% of the world population (sometimes figured higher) who have dissociative identity disorder. However, most mental health professionals have either not taken the time to study DID or are trauma-informed.
This article will cover strategies to heal in therapy for dissociative identity disorder. Also, this piece will speak a bit about the problem of professionals not treating DID, offering the wrong treatment, or do not believe dissociative identity disorder exists.
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a major dissociative disorder on the dissociative scale, outpacing depersonalization and derealization. It forms in childhood before the age of 9 and from severe and repeated child abuse.
Although DID has been recognized as a diagnosable disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) since 1980, when it was called multiple personality disorder, many mental health providers still don’t believe it is a proper diagnosis.
Later editions of the DSM renamed MPD as dissociative identity disorder since DID does not involve different personalities but distinct parts splintered from the core self. How many…
