What is dissociative identity disorder?

Dissociative identity disorder is a dissociative disorder involving a disturbance of identity in which two or more separate and distinct personality states (or identities) control the individual's behavior at different times.

How do members experience dissociative identity disorder?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with dissociative identity disorder*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for dissociative identity disorder*

*Data from patients with dissociative identity disorder, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.

Compare treatments taken by people with dissociative identity disorder*

Treatment
Perceived effectiveness
Side effects
Total evaluations
Tried for
Treatment

(Bioenergetic Psychotherapy)
Perceived effectiveness
No evaluations
Side effects
No evaluations
Total evaluations
0
Tried for
dissociative identity disorder (1)

*Data from patients with dissociative identity disorder, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.

Who has dissociative identity disorder on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 31
20s 78
30s 133
40s 124
50s 162
60s 132
70+ 37

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 73
Female 599

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What is dissociative identity disorder?

Dissociative identity disorder is a dissociative disorder involving a disturbance of identity in which two or more separate and distinct personality states (or identities) control the individual's behavior at different times.



Common symptoms reported by people with dissociative identity disorder

Common symptoms
How bad it is
What people are taking for it

Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.
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Treatments taken by people for dissociative identity disorder

Treatment name(s)
Type
How many have tried
Tried for
Treatment name(s)

(Bioenergetic Psychotherapy)
Type
Psychotherapy
How many have tried
163

Data from patients with dissociative identity disorder, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.
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Compare treatments taken by people with dissociative identity disorder

Treatment name(s)
Perceived effectiveness
Side effects
Total evaluations
Tried for
Treatment name(s)

(Bioenergetic Psychotherapy)
Perceived effectiveness
No evaluations
Side effects
No evaluations
Total evaluations
0
  • Major
  • Moderate
  • Slight
  • None
  • Can't tell
  • Severe
  • Moderate
  • Mild
  • None

Data from patients with dissociative identity disorder, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.
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Who has dissociative identity disorder on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 4 new patients joined this month
  • 251 say dissociative identity disorder is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 31
20s 78
30s 133
40s 124
50s 162
60s 132
70+ 37
Age at first symptom
Age at first symptom Proportion # of patients
0-19 years 227
20-29 years 41
30-39 years 31
40-49 years 13
50-59 years 2
60-69 years 0
70+ years 0

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 73
Female 599

Diagnosis status
Diagnosis status Proportion # of patients
Diagnosed 357
Not Diagnosed 39

These charts show data from dissociative identity disorder patients who have completed their condition history
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