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 22
20s 70
30s 121
40s 117
50s 159
60s 110
70+ 32

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 65
Female 549