And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?
Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID.
Symptoms
* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100
* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics
* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)
* Often they are depressed or suicidal
* Self-mutilation is common
* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations
* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years
* Depressive symptoms
* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)
* Conduct problems (in childhood)
Why are parents now allowed to blame the child? When really the parent is the one with the problems?Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
i think it's more like children are being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder when they could have a number of other disorders.
for example for years i have been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder when i have borderline personality disorder and a friend of mine with the same thing when all he had was adult adhd.
from what i have read there is no way DID is hereditary. it is obviously a disorder that is cause only by a child's mind having to defend itself against the trauma that was caused in its life.
if anything it is ONLY the parents fault if this disorder appears in this child. (with only minimal exceptions).
in answer to the question you posted, a lot of the psychological problems are, to a certain point, the parents fault. ESPECIALLY DID.Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
I have heard very few people claim that DID is hereditary, its fairly well accepted that most cases are associated with severe child abuse. As to why its misdaignosed- because the DSM is far from scientific. What looks like dissociation to one therapist looks like mania to another and perhaps psychosis to a third. They've actually done studies one this- given the exact same case study, but half the therapists are told the client is male and the other half are told its a female, they come back with completely different diagnoses. Same for if they give the exact same case study, but an "expert" implies to some of the therapists that the patient is psychotic, and to other that he is neurotic. There is also a study called "sane in insane places" where sane people had themselves admitted to a psych ward and then acted completely normally. Everything they did was labeled and pathologized even though they were in fact acting like normal people. Human behavior can be interpreted in many different ways by the observer, which is why the same person can be given numerous different labels. In the rest of medicine, it is much more concrete- a cough is a cough, a heart murmur always sounds the same etc. And of course, there is a tendency to think horses, not zebras. Bipolar is thought to be far more common than DID. So when a patient presents with symptoms, the "safer" diagnosis is bipolar.
Why are parents allowed to blame the child? I wish I knew. Probably because children rarely speak up and make it clear what is happening to them. Most try their very best to hide it. And, of course, few people want to think that a child could be being abused, particularly if they know the parents well or the parents are influential. Its unlikely that the child will sue you for leaving them in their home and medicating them, but you can bet parents will put up a fight if you take away their kids and accuse them of abuse- even when its true. so without concrete evidence, many adults are reluctant to allege abuse. -Neb
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