5.1 Post summary / Table of contents

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) (previously known as “Multiple Personality Disorder”) involves a person having multiple “alters” (alternate identities), with different preferences and (in some cases) different names. A DID diagnosis also requires some nonzero amount of “inter-identity amnesia”, where an alter cannot recall events that occurred when a different alter was active. For example, DSM-V talks about patients “coming to” on a beach with no recollection of how they got there.

Anyway, just like trance in the previous post, DID was one of those things that I unthinkingly assumed was vaguely fictional for most of my life. Maybe that's because my only exposure to it was in actual fiction. While the artistic [...]

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(00:08) 5.1 Post summary / Table of contents

(03:54) 5.2 Why is the suggestion of culture and psychologists a risk factor for DID?

(06:51) 5.3 Why is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) a risk factor for DID?

(09:09) 5.3.1 …So the DID alters correspond to different emotional states?

(11:42) 5.4 Why is childhood trauma a risk factor for DID?

(14:34) 5.5 Amnesia

(19:04) 5.5.1 If everyday strong emotions are a bit like mild DID, do they come with mild amnesia??

(21:26) 5.6 Conclusion

The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
October 15th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6bW5uJ325JxHYqMFr/intuitive-self-models-5-dissociative-identity-multiple

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“[Intuitive self-models] 5. Dissociative Identity (Multiple Personality) Disorder” by Steven Byrnes

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“[Intuitive self-models] 5. Dissociative Identity (Multiple Personality) Disorder” by Steven Byrnes