How many distinct personality states are required for DID?
What is 2 or more
100
What medication helps with dissociative symptoms?
What is none
100
What was DID previously called?
What is Multiple Personality Disorder
100
Dissociative disorders typically follow a _____.
What is trauma
200
True or False: DID is almost always correctly diagnosed the first time
What is FALSE; most people receive three or four other diagnoses first
200
What therapy options are reported in literature to treat DID?
What are cognitive analytic therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy.
200
What brain structure shuts down causing traumatic memories to not be recalled as a whole story?
What is the thalamus
200
When do 95% of dissociative symptoms first occur?
What is before the age of 25
300
What is the average length of time between the first symptom and diagnosis for DID?
What is 6 years.
300
What therapy was found to reduce symptoms of dissociation?
What is trauma-focused therapy
300
True or false: Attitudes, outlooks, and personal preferences may suddenly change then revert back.
What is TRUE
300
What is the hallmark feature of dissociative disorders?
What is the inability to integrate memories and experiences into awareness
400
What are the four most frequent co-occurring disorders with DID?
What are depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and self-injury.
400
What is considered to be the most effective treatment for DID?
What is none, it has yet to be identified
400
How many people with DID experienced abuse or neglect as a child? How many outpatients with DID have attempted suicide?
What is 90% and over 70%
400
To qualify for the diagnosis of Dissociative Disorders, ____________ or __________ must persist or recur and cause clinically significant distress in several areas of functioning.
What is unreality and detachment.
500
What are two of the three ways recurrent dissociative amnesia manifests in DID?
What are gaps in personal life events (marriage, giving birth), lapses in dependable memory (how to drive, how to use a computer) and discovery in everyday life of unexplained items the person has no memory of acquiring (shopping bags, clothing).
500
True or False: treatment for DID always results in complete remission of symptoms
What is FALSE
500
What are two things that are associated with poorer prognosis?
What are comorbid disorders, severe medical illness, retraumatization, ongoing abuse, and delay in seeking treatment.
500
What is one of the proposed causes to explain the development of Dissociative Disorders?
What is trauma, abuse, hysteria, iatrogenic, exacerbation by suggestion, hypnosis, or social forces