One Mind, Multiple Personalities : Prevalence

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This diagram shows statistics as found in the DSM-5 which was published in 2013, as well as additional information from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (see previous post for more information). What is interesting about this visual is that contrary to popular belief, Multiple Personality Disorder is more common than OCD in the Northern American population (DSM-5).
This shows that more people are affected by this than many people would imagine. Giving people this kind of information does not only open their eyes to its prevalence but hopefully also gives them the urge to do research and get more information.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder, or formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is and has been a highly controversial topic in terms of diagnosis as well as treatment. It is a severe condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present in—and alternately take control of—an individual. Even in today's advanced field of psychology, this dissociative disorder still remains highly underdiagnosed due to not many people knowing about its symptoms since signs of DID may be invisible and have a rather small window of viability. At the same time, cases of misdiagnosis have been surfacing over the past decades as well. In order to be able to accurately diagnose the right amount of the population, more people need to be made aware of the characteristics, possible causes and treatments of this disorder.

I am a Psychology Major and have always found Dissociative Disorders highly interesting. After just having studied Dissociative Identity Disorder in my Abnormal Psychology class a few weeks ago, I thought this was a great opportunity for me to build a blog around this topic. This disorder is often misdiagnosed (not to mention being mistaken with Schizophrenia) as well as highly underdiagnosed and more people need to be made aware of information revolving around this topic.

One Mind, Multiple Personalities

Prevalence

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