Dissociative identity disorder

Dissociative identity disorder  (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring identities or dissociated personality. These symptoms are not accounted for by substance abuse, seizures, other medical conditions or imaginative play in children. Diagnosis is often difficult as there is considerable comorbidity with other mental disorders. Malingering should be considered if there is possible financial or forensic gain, as well as factitious disorder if help-seeking behavior is prominent.

Example:

Tracy is a person who has Dissociative identity disorder she has five personality´s:

Miss Anne: she is the caring identity she takes care of the children’s.

Becky: she is the one that most comes out. She is the worst identity she hurts Tracy’s body because she says that Tracy needs a punishment for not listening the other identity’s

Emily: always needs her mom because she is too little she is ten years old she loves coloring and she is very shy she is scared and always crying.

Susy: she hides behind a pillow she does not want to talk she is very shy too.

Samantha: she is de ceu it means that ahe always wants to be in charge.

Her first other identity was when she was two years old the second was at 10 and the third was at 17.

Obsessive–compulsive disorder

 Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions. Symptoms :

excessive washing or cleaning

 repeated checkin

extreme hoarding

 preoccupation with sexual.

 The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and potentially psychotic. However, OCD sufferers generally recognize their obsessions and compulsions as irrational, and may become further distressed by this realization.

Bipolar

Bipolar disorder is a condition in which people experience intermittent abnormally elevated (manic or hypomanic) and, in many cases, abnormally depressed states for periods of time in a way that interferes with functioning. Not everyone's symptoms are the same, and there is no simple physiological test to confirm the disorder. Bipolar disorder can appear to be unipolar depression. Diagnosing bipolar disorder is often difficult, even for mental health professionals. What distinguishes bipolar disorder from unipolar depression is that the affected person experiences states of mania and depression. Often bipolar is inconsistent among patients because some people feel depressed more often than not and experience little mania whereas others experience predominantly manic symptoms. Additionally, the younger the age of onset—bipolar disorder starts in childhood or early adulthood in most patients—the more likely the first few episodes are to be depression.^[7] Because a bipolar diagnosis requires a manic or hypomanic episode, many patients are initially diagnosed and treated as having major depression.

made by: Paola Pineda Vazquez