1) Is DID hereditary or acquirable or both?
2) Can a person land in a long-term amnesia after recovering from a long comatose?
3) Amnesia is a known symptom of DID, is it possible for the DID patient to attain amnesia on one personality while the other personality remains normal?
4) Do all DID patients have amnesia?
5) Can a person with split personality not be aware that he has DID? (specifically people who lives in isolation)
6) Does the interchanging of personality among DID patients follow a certain pattern or does it just occur on random?
7) Can both of a DID patient's personality share any knowledge in anyway?
8) Is DID curable?
9) If DID is acquirable, can a person with it adopt a personality of someone he knows or someone that he had just made up? (for example, can a book author adopt one of his/her characters in a book he had previously written?)Need info on medical facts about amnesia, comatose, and Dissociative Identity Disorder(split personality)?
1. DID is acquired. A propensity for using dissociation (pathologically or not) may be genetically influenced. The disorder itself, however, is not passed down genetically.
2. Yes.
3. Yes. There are generally varying levels of co-consciousness among the various "alters" or personalities within the system. Some may have access to personal information while others do not. Some traumatic memories, for example, may be "stored" by a child alter while the main personality or other alters are amnestic for the event.
4. At some point, highly likely. It is VERY unusual for a DID patient to report COMPLETE co-consciousness among ALL alters in his/her system (unless they have been in therapy for a very long time with an excellent therapist). When co-consciousness is incomplete (true for the vast majority of DID folks), at least some degree of amnesia will be present.
5. People with DID are frequently unaware that they have the condition until it is brought dramatically to their attention in some way (e.g., finding clothing in the closet that does not belong to them, receiving a call from someone who seems to know them but they never recall meeting, consistently receiving mail or bills to the proper address but with a different name).
6. Some DID patients can detect a pattern to their switching, while for others, it seems more random.
7. The typical number of "alters' is about 8. It is very unusual to have a DID system with only 2 alters. In many cases there is at least some (albeit marginal) level of co-consciousness (one being aware of or partially in control of another). Many DID patients develop a means for alters to communicate with each other (e.g., journaling, leaving notes, tapes, videos, communicating info thru the therapist).
8. Yes.
9. It is possible (even likely) that some alters in a system may take on the traits of significant others in one's life (e.g., a cherished childhood friend, an abuser, a parent).
~M~Need info on medical facts about amnesia, comatose, and Dissociative Identity Disorder(split personality)?
Full recovery depends on the therapist and the host who usually is in denial for a long time. Integration may never happen but cooperation is considered recovery.
Yes lots of times, you have to search for a better therapist.
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