Terminology
One state of conscious
What is an Alter
Someone who fronts or watches over system when involved in conflict
What is a protector
What is Dissociation
The main cause of developing a dissociative disorder
What is Repeated Childhood Trauma
This alter only exists to and lives to terrorize, murder and reek havoc
What is an Evil Alter
When two or more alters are in control of the body or influencing the alter in control
What is Co-Fronting
Alters that are based off of, looks like or behaves like someone who exists in real life or media
What is an Introject
A disorder such as anxiety, depression or an eating disorder that may affect one or more alters
What is a Co-Morbid disorder
This process typically happens once a week to help build coping mechanisms, management and process trauma
What is Talk Therapy
Due to this, people believe Dissociative disorders only affect about .5% of the population
What is Underdiagnosed
An inactive state, not able to front or create memories
What is Dormancy
An alter that is seen as another species, typically to cope with the emotions of feeling dehumanized
What is a non-human alter
Failure to recall important personal information, relationships or important dates
What is Amnesia
Alters coming together to form a singular state of consciousness
What is Final Fusion
These two disorders are the same because they both consist of hearing voices, paranoia and delusions
What is Schizophrenia
A state of mind in which the later fronting isn’t aware of their identity or are blended with others
The alter that controls the body the most, living the daily life
What is a Host
A sudden and unexpected shift in identities controlling the body. Typically done to be covert
What is rapid switching
An intense attachment to a fictional character or an external figure, combined with a psychological need to mirror their strength, can be this for a system
What is the cause of an introject
An impossible concept In which an alter is no longer with us due to illness, old age or injury
What is Alter Death
This year, Dissociative Identity Disorder was re-named from Multiple Personality Disorder due to the fact is was found to be a dissociative disorder, Not a personality disorder..
What is 1994
An alter that serves to protect the system in maladaptive ways
What is a Persecutor
An internal space and mental landscape where alters can communicat, coexist and live when not fronting
What is Inner World
Which brain structures are smaller in individuals with dissociative identity disorder
Hippocampus and Amygdala
An alter’s ability to go from one system to another. A term stolen from the original concept of alters jumping between subsystems.
What is System Hopping