Lecture on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Wow and hello everyone wow I honestly didn't expect like many people to turn up today I will tell you I'm really really nervous I didn't know what I was rehearsing this yesterday I certainly didn't think that I would be the food booth but like I have a little bit today and first of all I just want to say a big big thank you for coming today to listen to my personal experiences for this condition the societal identity disorder and its really does mean so much to me to know that all of you are interested in this condition and more to understand it further I really hope that I can give you a good clarification of what this disorder is like you know what it means to me what it means what people and how people function with it in everyday life so just to give you a little bit about me my name is Jessica and I'm a third-year clinical and health psychologist you at pocket I was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder two years ago although I've known about my multiple personalities for the while sit size about six years old so it's been a long a long time and there are many people who don't believe this disorder is real and this is my reason for standing in front of you today is to spread this awareness and hope that those who are future psychology students will be able to continue and in their careers knowing that this condition is very real and it's you know it's wrong to judge what you don't necessarily understand if you know if that makes sense so and yeah my ultimate goal is to raise awareness at this controversial condition and I hope to give you guys the right facts and understanding and I really hope you all do enjoy the talks I have a shoujo student like I said so features bear with me if I slip up a little bit and refreshments are available and available here and we have teas and coffees and lemonade I think so you're more than welcome it's really important guys just don't worry if you need to go out at all that's fine and yes I I will answer all your questions but you know if you can keep them sort with you and then I will answer them at the end that will be great just a week in there move it along a little bit okay so you know that's okay my own game for today so first of all oh I guess what is di D this is very very good what we'll be covering and I try to keep it simple and sweet because it is a complex condition and the answers I'll just be going through with you and how what is dissociation what is most similar to disorder and what it's like to live with this condition meet the odds and then you'll get to actually see as if seeing you'll get to have some video footage of my personal offices and I'll tell you a little bit about them and how they are and have they asked also the causes of dids that this goes back to sort of how it starts how it begins power deity is formed and therapy and treatment and this is quite self-explanatory I suppose and I'll be looking at the evidence which is a little bit more than your biological science in don't worry I promise not to scare you guys too much if you're not psychology major school you know you're not a neuropsychologist that's fine I really tried to make it as simple as possible a very complex condition and and finally news q and A's right the end will be a five-minute break between the engines in the Q&A so if you guys are going to get ever since that's okay okay so first of all what is the ID but I can tell you what not is not schizophrenia and many people assumed that the idea schizophrenia I'm interlinked or they are the same thing when in fact they are nothing alike it's pretty a psychotic disorder and di D is a dissociative disorder and that is an extremely different perception of what other people have and I think really the mix-up comes from the translation from schizophrenia which means to flip mind that the split mind actually comes from the split between fantasy and reality with the personal risk it's phrenic and does actually mean split personality disorder and moving on to that it is not a personality disorder as much as the old name suggests more personality disorder my personality as somebody who suffers from this condition is it is intact I just have a few more and so like Jekyll and Hyde would imply as well I said it is not split personality disorders personality disorder doesn't actually exist and so these this really is the classic demonstration of the evil axe wielding person with multiple personalities who's coming to get you I promise this really isn't a true a true likeness in what condition is actually like people with this disorder such as myself up or can be perfect working of course with any psychiatric illness some people make Cobras all very well and other people not so much so it ranges completely Michigan seeing as Dave in front of you talking to you today and I don't have an axe in my hands not going to tropicals deaths fine look good but good so I get the big boy scale all the mental health right parents you will be thrilled to know that the idea is nothing to do with the imaginary-friend syndrome my alters my my multiple personalities are not imaginary friends and your child having an imaginary friend doesn't actually give them any more chance of developing this condition than the next trial dentistry so you were absolutely fine as Hollywood will tell you di D is not a fashion statement this is a lovely picture of Lady gaga and her brand-new alter ego I think Joe and I promise you the idea isn't when you go out for the night dressed up ISM and actually work this really isn't you know funny costume but recently I actually when I told somebody and I had this condition the first thing that person said to me was no way just some Britney Spears that's fine I'll just I'll just go shake my hands and enjoy I read you know I am this glamorized view of CID is completely wrong like Nicki Minaj's rolling zoo last year in Vegas or Beyonce's fashion fears it seems to be coming a trend right now and it's quite worrying because I'm quite concerned people assume that I suddenly go from things launched with poor shell to a to a from Creasy looking Italian Vogue but I'm not quite sure but this is what you know Hollywood have you believe Oh finally if the CID you'll see this a lot in the media is that your weed and a man is trying to escape his murder sentence by claiming insanity and he was saying oh it wasn't me it was my ultimate oh did it it wasn't me that disappear that's counting punished and actually if you look at the reports it says that the majority people try and claim they have multiple personalities when they commit these crimes with these murders don't actually don't actually and pass psychiatric assessment so this is good news and subscribe good news it stones to stop people trying and it is finally no scapegoat and which I don't like this picture of the girls right it is not scapegoat for your for life's problems Oh editor of a scientist gone that's fine it's not a scapegoat for life's problems as many people will have you believe so you know when you're going to lecture it's not a good job yeah I mean wait where's the old dog ate my homework excuse now we're faced I know I'm sort of faced with her oh well actually I have I have a dog alternate personality who ate my homework so I decided to just no that's not good so numbers this excuse this use of scapegoating really isn't anything to do with having GID and it should be put that way it's really really awful and people assume that I think that a lot I'd like to turn up to lectures late just to some walls you know I turned out from you like hey you know sorry one of my officers loved it this morning alright it's an excuse to say that you stayed up party no no I really he really stayed up but people still assume that I'm using it as an excuse and this has got to stop so this giant wall of text you see here comes from a little book called the diagnostic criteria of mental health disorders it's the DSM for text revision Diagnostics but I'm not going to try and shove this giant bull text on the throat instead I'm going to try and break it down into small pieces so we can get a better understanding of exactly what's like so let's start first with what is dissociation what is the D and D ID well like the cartoon says how do you ever driven down familiar roads only to wake up somewhere different or enjoy that book so much that I was seen to pass by in minutes this if you have experienced it is a type of dissociation don't panic I promise you this is perfectly normal and a dissociation is a disconnection in the mind so it does connect you briefly I think from a moment of consciousness it's a helpful and normal abilities all people possess in a young age and it helps us gain dream all keep our heads through stressful situations and it's it's only when and this is this is perfectly normal and it's only when it begins to interfere with your life disorder then become a disorder so that the associate becomes a disorder it's when you know you're looking at books and I was not it's more than you're losing hours you're losing days weeks months sometimes in years is this when disorder instrument Association becomes a real disorder so these there are five other types of dissociative disorders you've got associative amnesia researched a few key personalization dissociative disorder not otherwise specified and while be focusing on today which at the ID so the first one in the DSM states is the criterion that you need to match the inner actual diagnosis it's the presence of two or more distinct personalities or personality states so if I just give you a demonstration these little lovely cartoons are pictures of orcas so this is where they could look like and bit me as few and a person as s22 or hundreds one of my friends with this condition actually has over 100 personalities can you imagine well I can't even I know if I don't later have all and the thought of having a hundred people inside is just it's crazy to me it's mind-boggling I mean can you honestly believe that these alters live in like it's sort of an inside will they have their own little inside realm now this inside realm can be nothing it could just be in black space black space or it could actually be a lot more complex it could be a place where you know you have them it makes them with some alternate selves have islands of their own they may have countries they may just have a little house a little tent and some altars have the whole world inside their head this is their sort of inner world it can be anything it can be anything that the person with the disorder has come up with this isn't the conscious thought but these alters live within this inner world and I'm really sorry that's complex but I'm hoping that of you I'm not lost you just yet so some wheels may have schools and living and shopping and Jobson and social systems don't have any so some people with this disorder who have personalities in their inner worlds they don't have anything like that so they may just have a blank space or may not know their inside world actually exists the world's not alleged in is just as diverse as the condition itself the criteria at least established at least two of these personalities and come forward which is why I'm moving on to next ether are called chemical triggers personalities or alter personalities can be triggered out it can actually be triggered at all the stitch so this this girl here has seen her favorite teddy bear which causes the switch between personalities so this could be quick and dramatic or subtle and half-speed personally for me my alters act gladly they are only comfortable acting as themselves in front of people that they're comfortable with so um you know some people say that the you can instantly see a child personality come out you can see and you know major differences between people but actually that's not necessarily the case alters can be welded and it just depends basically on the strategy and the functioning of the system of the person in in charge so yet these this is how an alter can come forward they can come forward through a trigger do something they like something they dislike and or they can just come out from your water why not why not you know they because you see a box of paint something hey you know I party throne box and it's all around the wall they can do that it's just whatever they decide they can come out they want do whatever they want and unless there is a routine structure which is what we're going to a little bit later on okay so second on the list at least to these identities routine you take control which is just what we just covered and let me see yeah this is a great example so this is it I won't be obviously to change and a person who saw me and my alters at one person don't forget my office act like me will probably describe me as a moody and indecisive person this is because they are viewing me is one person and not doing it separate people so you can see here that in the first book she's like she's being asked how to do and she's look good how are you in the next book like what's that that she's like your mom and this is you know can be a typical dramatic change in attitude personality expression in child mannerism anything so this is the second one what's in my screen no facts that are like ice cream is that ice cream can I have some please which is great this is my very overdramatic and yeah this is just a typical you know a typical switch that can happen and some alters may say that they don't they have an allergy to for example when you have allergies peanuts but actually another person in the system actually eat peanuts and not have allergic reactions not that I would tell you to do that if I don't know and except there have been cases of this happening and so one may not like ice cream another middle of ice cream one going up that daytime TV another one may water daytime TV building it completely depends so this girl here I was what I'm going to show you it's it's this video for inside and it's a little short film that was made on YouTube and one thing I think about this film all that was a little eerie and a little severe it shows a person with multiple personalities in psychiatric ward it actually does paint a very good metaphorical picture of what it's like when alters try and routinely take control of a body or person so one I really hope that you know you guys can see that as well on your feet dr. Lawson see personalities you can't there's again eres Joey and beau for weeks now we've been talking you've introduced me to a lot of different people each with a different thing so my question is Who am I speaking to now next week you're up for evaluation if it goes well we'll call for a supervised release program and eventually the only way you can get better is if you work for the government you're inside my head you can read my thoughts I'm being held here against my will you're here because the alternate selves inside your head taking control then tell me John Jacob Jingleheimer that's my day too Oh Deary me are you quiet I am here to help you but I can't do that if you won't listen the only way you're getting out of here is if we work together now you were going to say something go ahead please for Daniel is dead good to have you back take your doctor it's good to be back it's been a long time business now can you hello Daniel I'm dr. Blake as you know you get for evaluation next week if you don't mind like to ask you a few questions so are we how eerie was that never get a little twist at the end that was quite good right and it shows I thought it shows we were these the most horrible state of alters taking control and mainly the power that they could have older person but as you can see if you're watching from the naked eye if you couldn't see these people standing behind it very disabled person a senior school despite up being a little eerie I think it's a displays it really well if we're moving on third we have the inability to recall information now this little wire could be pain in my backside it's one of the worst parts about having the idea to me it's the amnesia that Blackhouse the pure dissociation as like I said in books you know that the minutes if you get if you really get into about minutes tend to pass by so so quickly it's actually a whole new level for me I could be I could just go to bed a night and then wake up the next day and randomly the street not know where I was heading what I was doing or why I was there and this is quite a common phenomenon with di D and it's also it's also quite infuriating as I'm sure you guys can imagine so this is an example I can't control the person to lose time anywhere from seconds here's an example of this is if you were in a different building for your friend during what I did and language personality who's not around at the same time as another so basically in another personality comes out it exacerbates the dissociation exacerbates the memory osmium Niva the person thing not necessarily half so if another also comes out the other alters and myself may not know what they've done that's what these are slides are saying the best example I could give you guys is probably a drop night out now if you ever had that where you've drank so so much you just woken up the next day and not remembered anything you've done the night before and all you have a few clues you have to check your phone you have to check your bag you want to check what your friends are said this is exactly what it's like everyday sort of piecing things together what has previously happened and it can be quite some scary for some people that have to go through this but this has become I think so routine for me personally now I'm just really affected by it but I do tend to avoid alcohol or avoid anything that may exacerbate this dissociation because it is quite a difficult thing to deal with as I'm sure you can imagine finally first associative experiences and the idea itself is not caused by our pretty pretty much straight forward and again at the bottom children which is not a fantasy player or imaginary friends so if you have imaginary friends the child don't worry that that first memory friend is not likely to be in all brain so basic overview Vig is the dissociative disorder not a psychosis with personality disorder alters can live in simple or complex inner worlds and take full fantastical individual one of the most prevalent effects of tid is memory loss and amnesia this is often they're not always related to horse horses to alters coming forward and taking place post and NTID is diverse from person to person and I took the little di community that I have I never once met another system server so each and every system is so different so fast there is no wonder why the criteria is so basic for this disorder so let's get complex one of my favorite works if the brain was so simple in understand it will be so simple even mind is blown we have literally just covered the basics of the idea and I really hope I have often guys so far and and I hope that now you're ready to dive into a little or a little more complexity would an abnormal detail or the condition area a little more detail about the condition the best work morbidity there people don't know what that means it basically in these conditions that are generally associated with the disorder so things that come about because of it's almost like an a symptom and so headaches 90s which headaches they tend to be cool and what's the people of the di D community these headaches often really hard to control they can't necessarily be controlled via drugs and and often the best remedy really is just to sleep is just to sleep it off and people aren't quite sure why they happen and they have been tested a few times but some different areas keep coming up on the neuro scanning and depression obviously if your alter was coming out how many times a day spending all your money maybe you know I don't know kicking your girlfriend or boyfriend out of the house you get quite depressed too uncomfortable you'd understand and the rest of pretty straightforward anxiety substance abusing disorders post-traumatic stress disorder and other disorders so bipolar disorder borderline personality disorder and they're all quite prevalent within this condition but this is the part that might blow your mind these conditions may not necessarily be in the house they may be in the altars one of my alters for example Jake has bipolar disorder so I don't have I don't have bipolar disorder but he does so he what I literally have a disorder within a disorder it's like Inception disorder okay this one right yes I will demonstrate how a person despite all these problems can function to a normal level they can function to a good level and it's um in some cases expelled into extremely well just like this gentleman John and which I will show you in this time John is a police officer and he received awards and commendations and yet he is other separate associate identity disorder John is an expert marksman he was an Army Ranger and sharpshooter and target practice is altered personalities take turns shooting jabs personalities have different styles and firing a gun Scout shoots from one knee what is your function in the system of your function yeah my act is the zoom discount John shares his job as a police officer with several personalities who have different abilities he switches when different police skills are needed and is always aware of what his other personalities are doing when you're out here it sort of depends on the situation normally I'm out quite a bit at the time as John began pursuit he switched to a personality who is good at driving in high-speed chases when the stop was made there was another switch and John returned to confront the driver of the truck boy how fast you're gone among his fellow officers John has a good reputation lieutenant Pritchard is his commanding officer john knows what's going on when he's out there in any given situation he's he's able to make decisions on his feet in tough situations and just think really fast this is why we were in st. Louis at the training academy my working dog in me the rookie handler we were patrolling together for five years best partner I ever had much better me to fully partner I never worked with John showed us his scrapbook of 13 years as a police officer he's had many awards and commendations which began early in his career in 1982 I was ordered the outstanding officer the Year award by the JC's which is an award the top of every year hi while he was showing us the scrapbook John switched to a 10 year old personality named Johnny hi John had trained his dog to stay out of the living room but when he switched the dog entered sentencing that his master was no longer present ok that's John he's an adult in he's a policeman the child personality of Johnny recognizes John in the photograph and sees him as a separate person award awarded as Johnny read the article from the scrapbook and like a ten-year-old and trouble understanding the words in pours cement officer of 1982 by the oh gee jakie when John switched back the dog recognized him and left the room if he had been trained you know it's really interesting to see that even animals and it's it's been suggested babies can pick up these really small signs and that whoever maybe there isn't there so as you can see the dog left and entered the room with master was wasn't there and what I wanted to show you was the sort of also the cooperation like you'll notice that John almost had an ability to keep his office under control you know he chose one one came forward to do I think it was like a high-speed chase and then he would then choose when to come back and continue with them you know with his job this is a thing called consciousness or confronting and it's actually something the therapists aim to get you aimed to get a person - there's no consciousness what is it is it the best description I've ever come across so accurately so everybody has and their body is a car and you guys the driving your car pretty basic right your body you drive your body for some of you with multiple personalities there are several people in the car always how much that personality has access to you so they can be the passenger seat in backseat or in and when two or more people are in the car or helping drive this is calm consciousness or confronting so it's almost like what an altar is on standby and they build here see things that's going on but may not necessarily have it have them have the ability to do anything about it so it's basically taking turns to drive the car and it's learning how to drive this car learning how to cope front can make some function complex oh right yeah so and there's analogies little you can have different mannerisms terms of voice handwriting and in physical condition which is really great just a bit a bit crazy to some people but as you'll see it's endemic demonstrations I have I think it's quite weather obvious abuse you know have that ability and they may not even be aware of each other so it would be like I guess imagine all of you in row at the moment you are in one body people in your room you don't know all those people you're all you might do if you do you're lucky and if you don't all the people in that is if you were also have my dear of the other people either and happy houses who can work they may or may not know each other they may have ability to come out they may not have to do tonight it is completely different from person to person so we're on to meeting the offices that means from our personal experiences for this condition so meeting your core business week this is Jamie 23 is right-handed this is every 25 he's left-handed Jake who's 21 now his birthday was yesterday and he's right-handed and all of those ten who is right-handed you can see here with the examples of writing that they're all very uniquely different took we're up to up step and to operate Syria to get these things but I think they really show a fascinating difference between them and another thing like I discussed in the previous slide was about physical condition now I noticed that I was getting some heart it would go regularities and I'm one doctor suggested that actually it could be one of our personalities so we grew up to the test this was my normal ECG checkup and apparently what it looked like but then I was hooked up to a wire for a week and every time J came out and had to press a button these rejects results so you can see here that there is a vast difference I mean I don't know peacefully like me but you can consider this an atrial fibrillation or just ejector this is a heart arrhythmia noticing change and doctors basically reporte to if they can't give me medication because change the problem it's only when he comes out which is over time so this is inception at the book but this is quite fascinating to me anyway so I'm going to give you a little bit of blind date one day this is Jamie he's a protector organizer right-handed bisexual with amidst English accent he's intelligent he does need glasses so if you see me wandering I'm glasses you may not be air he may be conscious and watching watching you go through a paternal he wants kids more than I do and you've got a great perfumer and he's a logical this is Eddie he's a persecutor now persecutors tend to do harm to the audio do damage the body or do things to disrupt that mechanism so it's quite quite difficult having him aboard and he's gay he's anorexic bulimic his smoker is the only one of us smokes I'm the way he's artsy he's very he's perceptive and he has a puss on coffee I'm coming I hope you robot you vote and so yeah moving on then we have Jake use of the emotional side of things it's straight here bipolar disorder which had been diagnosed he's not a bad ghost with dyscalculia I'm pretty sure that he's got this condition as well as well you can't be you can't be master love sport and separation anxiety insomnia which we think is collected is bipolar he speaks in American accent California 50 precise he's quite sensitive emotional antiques vegetarian so I need a rubbish cook so everything like opium big meals and I have to cook lasagna and cook spaghetti my absolutely lasagna spaghetti all it has to be vegetarian because if Jake comes out the week you will starve because all you can do is need a sandwich so yeah and Holly who's ten years old and he is intelligent he has very strong views for little ten-year-old is the only one of us suffice with Magnus you know that's quite a stick and none of us have gotten like this in about six years so through all this time always be taking these and these might they actually become night terrors over time and he's also the only one of us lactose-intolerant so as you can imagine we have to balance dietary requirements quite quite you have to plan ahead by bit and then you get linear love milkshakes and ice creams only so much you can happen to do unfortunately and you're supposed to read he loves to read a scientist at science books and he loves dinosaurs so this is a little video of us that just a compilation of us together this is on my youtube channel more participe and me one was and welcome to go to it and this is the I'm going to just give you a little rundown before they are the first speaker is Jamie and I just sort of drawing you attention really I think the facial features the difference in accents and mannerisms are them I described in the previous post absolutely you don't know my name is Jamie and I'm currently 23 years old and I'm about 5 foot 10 give or take an inch or so blackboard shoulders so why all of these skin green eyes and I'm extremely attracted that's just me baking Eddie while you were worried you know and then can you gather I don't you pick up a man we're talking about guardianship I remember this because we start the couch watching EastEnders my balance is like people find about the candy when you bring a plan code make sure we can either use your ass I guess myself my name is Jade I my accent in seven years so my witness like five six around here yeah ha I'll be first hi guys Oh yes this is the really really fun day and whatever one is like it still quite hard for me to watch that part okay a little bit steady when I see all of them being associated oh my god it's really embarrassing to me I'm just trying to come to terms with it though it's not embarrassing you know it's the way that is my partner's actually starting the audience and he takes all yesterday's like to cinematic ice cream takes into the playground so six week as you know this is what I mean you know this such a vast difference between them and I really hoped I mean that I know their own tiny clips I just didn't wanna waste too much of your time and but you can check out my channel more my Ultron experiment lines and it reached 25,000 views which is quite a lot for a little mental health law and the second one is what this D&E is my brand new one I think it's on applies in music moments I think thank you for mostly what a view that the students who may have already seen it because the views have got a blow up over the past couple weeks who are really be appreciated and so demonstrational is good I hope I have asked you guys too much and but what I'm planning to do is there ask a few people to maybe come from I need one person to be a host might be I mean three people to be alters and basically I just want to give you all an insight to what it's like sitting with the ID through through but through a core normal day do I have I take so many bright people yeah great anyone else come on push amazingly it was nice to meet you do anybody else yes go ahead okay great thank you so much just to see if the guy to be happy go mix up a little bit yeah yep come on back I mean 150 other girl you know yes sure come on come on time I'll be great thank you so much okay so we have to hang it yeah Damien and pepper pepper pepper I'm Sam Sam lovely home to me you guys thank you so much right okay I'm going to give you these bells actually who is going to be the host yeah lift issuer first this people hands are going to be hugs do that okay okay brilliant now these bells just give you an example of what it's like for an ultra scope conscious and then they suddenly have a problem with something you're doing so every time you have a problem with whatever Luke says whatever Luke does I'm going to ring the bells and then I'll ask you why a problem with that and see if we can get around that don't avoid Esprit simple to worry too much and we're just going to give you a normal day so what time is usually goes about four so four five in the morning for you live I've got more time to go to bed halftime report it ranges reindeer can be there like that's funny so how would you get about how would you go about this it's my problem how haven't you come to you all realizes I've had an alter yeah yeah he's also how do you manage the donut is the altar also a good bedtime yeah okay but let's start with your normal breakfast so what would you have what's your ideal breakfast porridge stuff our answers sorry porridge I'm just already know verge of like cereal what would your baby which were clustered could you have could you handle a few days of crunch in it that's good okay cool so we've had punchy nut clusters the cereal we've had your favorite breakfast we're going to move on what time would let's say what time would you have like what you have today what would be your ideal dinner um my chicken basic Curry's pretty is just like my name this is great so how would you handle this - a chicken call inviting I'm a gimmick or maybe coming baby hungry baby how much you're not alrighty eat the chicken sure okay yeah this is good okay that's fine okay so what would you do with your day or your favorite weekend what would you do favorite weekends I probably over there we go out thing well what would you have proper nuts I like your feathers no I don't drink I'm calling it was absolutely so this is another problem so we have to work we have to work out something we have to because you can't go back right so if we were going to go out us let's potentially go back to your favorite bar and you saw the school just feel I presume that you like you know that girl's great and what's your favorite succulent if that was your favorite celebrities that right there gorgeous spits lefty who to be that's such a nice collar Johnson saw that pretty it just do to my girls do it yeah yeah great would you date a woman well I'm more interested in where the school you know what where's the university work coming into this a week my goodness is just a weekend are you a heavy University but everybody oh you're heavy work yeah yeah have you seen Henry mister to baby with hot Playhouse kind of it yeah yeah yeah so okay so we're good with college and apparently this is quite an unusual person I was by expecting for bells free rinsing no no I don't like women I like that that was like this weird with my with Scarlett Johansson I think it's like it's what I've been like and and so how many drinks would you have guys and I guess you said you didn't drink how about you TJ oh the light weights or would it be that much moderation moderation and what is it you do I don't even take you guys along side a gin and tonic gin tonic how about those what you don't know Oh from those good and so you're stumbling hope you have had a bit to drink have a drink what is your take that food that you have to eat sober up probably over Chinese revoir my dear ajahn Chah avoided yeah so we'll be through this we will help eating right yeah so this is great and you want me to cheering so you can eat a kebab I've never tried to give up so I really I don't have a great day it's long it's pot sublime talk about the chicken like thanks it's going to be awesome so finally what time did you crawl and sweat under my hair three three four thank you ever so much later the oceans at home thank you very and you ever so much to do that's pretty brazen you guys and I just wants to give you a demonstration and really repo and what it's like I can't go a whole day but so what I have this problem I have a problem with what you're doing I'm puzzled with Jake I have a Gingka versus a problem with you getting up to 7:00 a.m. I'm an insomniac and half sleep all night so we've got this problem of I do I don't go to my 7:00 a.m. lecture what have stairs all night so it is this way it works so so hard as you can imagine to juggle this but eventually if you can through therapy you're working out contrast think should be want to do you know it isn't through working out on attraction and that's where you know you can actually get better so I'm just going to go to a contract here and this is from a show called the United States of Tara and it's quite as being the showing in America it's the fictional show and also it's fictional but it's a brilliant brilliant I actually think it's quite quite on ball and what condition is that like Terra is a mother with the ID and the scene is basically showing her and her alters trying to function trying to get together and work to build this consciousness and in this contract so they can actually work as a team it starts right now right now Nona selfishness no more hijacking no more excuses no more passing the buck sure from now on my life will be organized my life my liberty I hereby declare my benevolent dictatorship to be in full effect long live the king it's me in a field stone don't know how I'm supposed to feel about is called my good sir twisted steel I'm crazy crazy don't wanna spell yeah you know that's quite hard always a hard hit in contrast really oh yeah of the things that could go wrong and it's an unfortunate reality that has happened to a lot of people with the disorder but when they think that they're making progress sometimes things that can happen when they slip back so it's going to be pretty disgusting out the causes of DAT this is a great example I love so a person experiences trauma like this poor guy here this is extremely distressing corners between France and to deal with these overwhelming feelings they dissociate a new personality comes forward takes care of the job and when everything is fine again everything is smooth yoga the control returns to the original personality and let's go back and it happened again and this is right this is a routine of how alters are created obviously you can imagine that the Torah is not just related to dropping eyes it's actually quite severe some people experience a ton of abuse cult abuse sexual abuse rape physical abuse or anything that you can think of generally happens at a very young age they think before the ages of 10 years old and apparently because none before this age so if this happens all the age of 10 and the person that has to be prone to PTSD and there is a chance that deserted by those people so this is a study of paula now this this woman here she is very very bad she has 19 personalities and very much like you saw in the United States of Tara she hasn't reached the contract with her just yet and so this can be quite happy I can definitely show you what it's like living about died battle from within Paula Hamlin has 19 different personalities that can literally take over her mind and body in an instant David Richardson has her story this war is under attack Ola is fighting something someone inside her who is trying to get out and take control Paula has dissociative identity disorder or di D this attack is being waged by one of ninety personalities inside her hola need you to come back hola hola sorry sorry I didn't know that was gonna happen but it's been happening for years you had 90 personalities we believe that there would have been around 90 Paul ahem looks like a healthy 47 year old woman but inside her liver small army of personalities she calls all turns different people created after a shockingly traumatic childhood she refers not to discuss the altars were created to help Paul survive the brain is an amazing you know you're the organism that that was its trick to help Paul survive she had a central altar to organize everything named Patricia there was a five-year-old child called Sydney and a woman who obsessively cleaned all right with the running to the cleaning it was an art even a male figure a personality who loved to drink and a woman who smoked and partied I had an altar that smoked and whenever I would then come back I would be vomiting for about two hours afterwards because I do not like cigarette smoke did you find strange clothes after things in all the draft that I I've never won that I don't even know how to wear them oh do you know who checked he was - but the whole time Paul was taken over by one of her alters she wouldn't have a clue where did Paula go escape escapism I think it's a bit yeah I Paul woods go inside almost like going to sleep realizing something was terribly wrong Paula sought psychiatric help it took seven years and countless hospital stays for doctors to work out what was really going on that she was dissociating from herself just like the character in the United States of time right now right now no selfishness no hijacking no more excuses and no more asking about the hit show starring Australian Toni Collette is a virtual mirror image of Paula's own fight for sanity so I just want to explain my map right now I'm still listed see you I'm under a lot of pressure lately it's doin's scared it'll only stir lemons during our filming and Paula vanishes in a second to be replaced by Cindy it takes her close friend to drag Paula back it's terrifying to witness even more terrifying to experience we really need to discuss how choice would be it's a survival mechanism it's something that's actually a useful way of surviving what otherwise would be an abusive and rejecting environment that might push someone into suicidal psychosis clinical professor of psychiatry dr. Warwick Middleton has spent 16 years investigating di D and there's more people like Paul are in Australia then you could possibly think something in the order of 1.1 percent of the general population suffer from dissociative identity disorder and and another significant percentage would suffer something that's a variant of condition so our populations for 20 Millions is what you talk to hundred thousand you I feel like I've missed out on a lot of things a lot of experiences a lot of life you know and this I got a night I'll brief for those losses the battle fighting machine okay here we are and so yeah we just did seem cooler in 1915 al-aziz we've got another therapy intriguing and this is only controversial condition please be reasonable we have sixteen stinkers not even only one frame this is a common thing in America two people believe that American American therapists in particular at create this disorder we've created here to generate disorder so they can get money basically from their potential and the I need people I'm hoping I'm really hopefully only in places like the UK so therapy and treatment is very very basic video because only two types this therapy normally requires talking self-help and the co consciousness I was talking about that can be reached through journals and think about writing each other notes you see my room it's covered in sticky notes fighting each other notes and understanding each other no you know what they want what's going on and there's no medication video is no such thing as a dissociative medication so the only thing that could be treated the comorbid disorders which I talked to you about earlier visualize things like anxiety depression meaning eating disorder whatever that may be and if you run into a problem like a civilian are Jake with bipolar it's a lot more difficult to treat the second calls the therapy is integration our integration is the merging of personalities so it's it's not necessarily getting rid of all the personalities but its condensing a large amount saying 100 personalities into a disparity and but as you can see sometimes that's not always the best option because if you're cramming 30 people that you want this maintain that this whole thing can completely change and this is so it's quite a controversial therapy always ie community but again it's all about their own choice and integration should never ever ever be forced upon occasion terrible video ad poisonous area pair personalities are created whole tragic memories which we discussed from the ice cream dropping mommy's memories breed personalities lose their purpose and go back to being one whole person at the moment having four boys yes with having four personalities I think I lost any of them I would lose this crucial balance and then something would go I think either and for me personally I'm as far as I am with my I say much therapy I've never had my own personal therapy and but with with how I manage I'm happy with where we are right now that would be nice it's coming okay so the last thing I want to see is the last thing is I purchase off skiing or treating suddenly for personality disorder gee doc I feel like a brand new person will not be great it'd be like myself I mean and okay so evidence I'm this promise you hi I'm Michelle and this is basically a blind woman blind woman who can see how are they related personalities and the different games came about tamil traumatic life events that I analyzed would not have any family deal with my girl the predominant personality of this interviewer was actually born Dianna 36 years ago the Burgos take over as the core personality she has been diagnosed as having 68 personalities all the different names ages and abilities throughout this interview you will see her change from Sweet sixteen year old mugger to Jackie a touch 21 year old to Corey a full year old who can neither read nor write and as you will see not all of these people are blind for the most part Ruby speaking with marker her vision is 2400 the state of California classifieds that is legally blind where a person with perfect vision can see something 400 feet away she must be 20 feet away to see that same image in simple terms she can't see her own face in the mirror it was as a blind girl that she sought treatment at Stanford University outside San Francisco this she would meet with a trained psychotherapist David Spiegel on first of all there's no question that it was real damage to her vision as you can see that her eyes do not move conjugate you know they'll track together she has his resting nystagmus of her Isaac where they move rapidly back and forth and that's something that a normal person just can't do they can't sustain this backwards on for very long at all so we know that she had some kind of injury when she was our mother tutors her during birth have left her with a knowledge of your visual handicap we watched his doctor speaking on getting on Illinois exam men for example welcome to my County well my guess would be that there's a person sitting here because of a machine but other than your speaking I would know that whether you're male or female I'm not sure I'm not sure mother-tested legally blind but then she changed who the four year old Corey someone else aged Corey oh good I want to do that now sorry I can remember big boy yeah boy I am good recipe I'm dr. Spiegel and you're in my office tonight Central America Center as we say next little Cory has good vision could you look at me in this probably staining not have any Lestrade that's where wasn't enough I didn't eat a quadrant you sorry what color is that color this kind of okay manage my foot hold only teaching students sitting Anna gives you an example of the physical evidence the Jamie needs glasses for example Jamie's the only one of us that these lasses but this is a far far most to be a case of a person who was born blind and we see when when the office comes forward so biological evidence suggests that basically a DI D is the core in the amygdala and hippocampus of the brain and these parts are responsible for memories and emotional responses the amygdala in particular is when you have a fight or flight and response and and if you can't fight or you can't flight they believe that basically the amygdala sort of shuts which maybe shuts down and then sort of that's also in a way how PTSD is formed so the idea in PTFE in brain scans are very intimate and just before I fell off this this is my own brain I actually did a study here at the University it was a completely irrelevant study but I decided to try and I hope I'm right because I got a woman yes three psychology students but I'm pretty sure my evidence is okay and but you can see that the big red mass at the top um on this side and then it sits with a normal brain is whether you visualize and on the next one you can see on the slide over that's my brain and a little the big red splat isn't there and it's dead rather than being a circle shape it's more of a medium of snake's head sort of shape and you can see when we match this with PTSD brain it's it's saying and they believe that the under under an MRI scan the PTSD brain and a di D brain is a very very similar and this could be due to that's what responses how do you guys feel about watching more video because okay okay and okay so just going to go quickly to an MRI video and this is the last one in the evening we'll call the elders which I guess makes the distance with the writers order it came on as a result of traumatic childhood experiences and she was a child because of the horrible abuse that she was suffering there was no escape except by doing some sort of escape into another part of her her own mind letting another personality come out and take the punishment that her mother might be doling out as she's gotten older that pattern has stayed around when under stress Louie says she can still lose hours or even entire days as another personalities take over to protect her from difficult situations despite the experience of patients like Louise the condition remains controversial some feel that the other personalities have been invented by the patient or even by the psychiatrist this skepticism is partly due to a number of high-profile cases which have cast doubt on the very existence in the condition that's what IQ one of the most famous occurred 20 years ago when the murderer can be a key used multiple personality as defense claiming his alter ego Steve carried out the killings eventually he was proved to be faking it okay with dr. Cohn DS help louise has recently developed an unusual skill unlike most multiple personality patients she can apparently make a switch of the bond sure Oh what I'll do is just count from one to five dr. Conde says he isn't using hypnosis simply a technique to help Louise focus for oh I'm sure medicine masala this is Elsi a french-speaking character mom I would wait I've been watching later she becomes a child called watcher I've been watching you saw some scary stuff huh this ability to switch it will makes release an ideal subject for research yeah in the last few years and almost college like this I've different scientists unprecedented access to the brain allowing them to see brain activity actually taking place the question is can it shed some light on the mystery of multiple personality disorder it's something a colleague of dr. Khan Dean's ghost inside has wanted to try for some time the tool problem of to do is a starting number one in the past we don't have machine like FM I we can do the study quickly incorrectly number two we don't have the right subject which can come kind of control their switching because we need to have them to switch on the scanner my name's Susan I'm lucky do it this year the doctor shows how they scan news his brain because she can bring on her switching they'll ask her to change character while the machine is on she won't be able to move or speak during the test so she's asked to activate a warning beeper to indicate when she switched hey what's your practice with that we that walk Louise is buzzed off to switch to one of her childlike personalities okay now I want you to switch to watcher now imagine that you're an eight year old girl named watcher you like to watch what happens with these the switch happens and then they do a controlled experiment the readers ask not to switch but to pretend to be an imaginary child I want you to imagine you're an eight-year-old girl named player you like to play with a neighbor girl named Helen the results of the original tests on Louise appear to show something remarkable these colored areas represent a big decrease in brain activity at the very moment three switches personality intriguingly it happens in the hippocampus and aeri responsible for long-term memory but there's no change during the controlled experiment as you can see here that's a French structure Co hippocampus at the area where activity got changed as highlighted by color here when she switched personality so what do you make of these results to me that is saying that there's a brain basis for her personalities reaching for Louise the results are great news I was ecstatic over the results because I finally there was finally proof a way to prove for all those people out there who don't or what to do and as it's such a controversial condition we have with us dr. Raj and dr. Tom Moyes Sharma and our episode you are convinced that the condition exists well like most British actress before this new study came along I was pretty skeptical but whether multiple personality disorder really existed that was partly because here in Britain we make the diagnosis much less frequently than they do in America and in Britain we often believe that maybe these people are pretending to have other personalities as a way of getting attention but the important thing about this new study and why it's very persuasive is that while this lady was in the brain scanner they asked her to pretend to be another personality and the brain activity changed that was different to when she actually was behaving as if she had another wonderful alternative personalities and this run-through of them just an MRI study gets done and finish off I'm just going to show you very very brief experiments that were done that it's just a collection of what I found on Google Scholar that have been Dover di D and all the areas that I'm going to highlight to you are the different differences they've noted so in this first one subway Frederick and what they noted that it was difference in the primary sensory motor cortex which they put down to the classical as swag facial changes in body changes when I one and all forward the second one the nucleus is acute in humans that are that word and they think it's associated with the reward people won't make money at this switching is almost more signal that sent when a person switches I don't understand that because for a person would do e when you switch it's almost like a relief you feel like that and it can be quite hard to get a addictive habit of switching whenever you award whenever you were happy with it sad angry whatever and so I think it's almost like a euphoric experience the prefrontal cortex they believe is the executive it's going to be good so obviously what a person is switching they fix it the executive control most of the brain people if you want to call it that makes these changes but also lateral and virtual prefrontal cortex Alan Turing parietal cortex and the over 25 own finger the fusiform gyrus I understand that it's not quite right wait where it is but that's like you do on this server you ring and and they think that it's doing people with the ID may not have a great memory span but they can learn you want expected so when you really come up with an anagram for a certain word and actually I didn't realize until I find a study that's exactly what I do for example I write closing of those data graphs and I remember all of them and then those are enough to sort of don't you remember what I'm supposed to write in the class and then finally superior and middle middle temporal jury and it's too low and everything else and it was recorded in this study that it was a noticeable difference in the blood flow in the front of the brain brain and there's a county a reduction of activity in the cerebellum when there is a switch happening so when it also comes forward there is reduction of activity within this cerebellum which is almost like you'll sort of force your pilot so let's put them together this is what we get every two researchers know exactly what they're looking for if you put all these pieces together we can really see that di D effects it is almost like another person living inside you entirely but almost the whole brain changes and these Dobby ones that I pulled up on Google Scholar in a night so you can see that the entire brain in different areas is affected by these personalities by these switches so what are we discovered the idea is a coping mechanism called from dissociation and is linked to Corbett's to PTSD anxiety depression Vetri dat may actually be scientifically measurable it is complex and controversial condition and no therapist anywhere has the right to say that this condition does not exist and trust me I've seen many psychiatrists psychologists some very well some esteemed who told me that my condition was wrong and I hadn't got what I have and and because they didn't believe in a disorder or they they don't see the disorder the way you know that it is and then I try and put myself in their shoes and think if I didn't have this condition what I believe it myself and to be honest with you I'm not sure where I would but my advice to you my hopes for you guys is that if you are going to be future psychologist psychiatrist please doctor a person away with this disorder just because you may not understand it doesn't mean it's not real it's real to that so thank you ever so much the good thing about having multi personality that you never get lonely there will be a break now and then I will just for five minutes and then I will answer any q and A's for all those who stick around thank you ever so much for listening today and it means so much to spread the awareness you orbit amazing stay the baby water you

Wow and hello everyone wow I honestly didn&#39;t expect like many people to turn up today I will tell you I&#39;m really really nervous I didn&#39;t know what I was rehearsing this yesterday I certainly didn&#39;t think that I would be the food booth but like I have a little bit today and first of all I just want to say a big big thank you for coming today to listen to my personal experiences for this condition the societal identity disorder and its really does mean so much to me to know that all of you are interested in this condition and more to understand it further I really hope that I can give you a good clarification of what this disorder is like you know what it means to me what it means what people and how people function with it in everyday life so just to give you a little bit about me my name is Jessica and I&#39;m a third-year clinical and health psychologist you at pocket I was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder two years ago although I&#39;ve known about my multiple personalities for the while sit size about six years old so it&#39;s been a long a long time and there are many people who don&#39;t believe this disorder is real and this is my reason for standing in front of you today is to spread this awareness and hope that those who are future psychology students will be able to continue and in their careers knowing that this condition is very real and it&#39;s you know it&#39;s wrong to judge what you don&#39;t necessarily understand if you know if that makes sense so and yeah my ultimate goal is to raise awareness at this controversial condition and I hope to give you guys the right facts and understanding and I really hope you all do enjoy the talks I have a shoujo student like I said so features bear with me if I slip up a little bit and refreshments are available and available here and we have teas and coffees and lemonade I think so you&#39;re more than welcome it&#39;s really important guys just don&#39;t worry if you need to go out at all that&#39;s fine and yes I I will answer all your questions but you know if you can keep them sort with you and then I will answer them at the end that will be great just a week in there move it along a little bit okay so you know that&#39;s okay my own game for today so first of all oh I guess what is di D this is very very good what we&#39;ll be covering and I try to keep it simple and sweet because it is a complex condition and the answers I&#39;ll just be going through with you and how what is dissociation what is most similar to disorder and what it&#39;s like to live with this condition meet the odds and then you&#39;ll get to actually see as if seeing you&#39;ll get to have some video footage of my personal offices and I&#39;ll tell you a little bit about them and how they are and have they asked also the causes of dids that this goes back to sort of how it starts how it begins power deity is formed and therapy and treatment and this is quite self-explanatory I suppose and I&#39;ll be looking at the evidence which is a little bit more than your biological science in don&#39;t worry I promise not to scare you guys too much if you&#39;re not psychology major school you know you&#39;re not a neuropsychologist that&#39;s fine I really tried to make it as simple as possible a very complex condition and and finally news q and A&#39;s right the end will be a five-minute break between the engines in the Q&amp;A so if you guys are going to get ever since that&#39;s okay okay so first of all what is the ID but I can tell you what not is not schizophrenia and many people assumed that the idea schizophrenia I&#39;m interlinked or they are the same thing when in fact they are nothing alike it&#39;s pretty a psychotic disorder and di D is a dissociative disorder and that is an extremely different perception of what other people have and I think really the mix-up comes from the translation from schizophrenia which means to flip mind that the split mind actually comes from the split between fantasy and reality with the personal risk it&#39;s phrenic and does actually mean split personality disorder and moving on to that it is not a personality disorder as much as the old name suggests more personality disorder my personality as somebody who suffers from this condition is it is intact I just have a few more and so like Jekyll and Hyde would imply as well I said it is not split personality disorders personality disorder doesn&#39;t actually exist and so these this really is the classic demonstration of the evil axe wielding person with multiple personalities who&#39;s coming to get you I promise this really isn&#39;t a true a true likeness in what condition is actually like people with this disorder such as myself up or can be perfect working of course with any psychiatric illness some people make Cobras all very well and other people not so much so it ranges completely Michigan seeing as Dave in front of you talking to you today and I don&#39;t have an axe in my hands not going to tropicals deaths fine look good but good so I get the big boy scale all the mental health right parents you will be thrilled to know that the idea is nothing to do with the imaginary-friend syndrome my alters my my multiple personalities are not imaginary friends and your child having an imaginary friend doesn&#39;t actually give them any more chance of developing this condition than the next trial dentistry so you were absolutely fine as Hollywood will tell you di D is not a fashion statement this is a lovely picture of Lady gaga and her brand-new alter ego I think Joe and I promise you the idea isn&#39;t when you go out for the night dressed up ISM and actually work this really isn&#39;t you know funny costume but recently I actually when I told somebody and I had this condition the first thing that person said to me was no way just some Britney Spears that&#39;s fine I&#39;ll just I&#39;ll just go shake my hands and enjoy I read you know I am this glamorized view of CID is completely wrong like Nicki Minaj&#39;s rolling zoo last year in Vegas or Beyonce&#39;s fashion fears it seems to be coming a trend right now and it&#39;s quite worrying because I&#39;m quite concerned people assume that I suddenly go from things launched with poor shell to a to a from Creasy looking Italian Vogue but I&#39;m not quite sure but this is what you know Hollywood have you believe Oh finally if the CID you&#39;ll see this a lot in the media is that your weed and a man is trying to escape his murder sentence by claiming insanity and he was saying oh it wasn&#39;t me it was my ultimate oh did it it wasn&#39;t me that disappear that&#39;s counting punished and actually if you look at the reports it says that the majority people try and claim they have multiple personalities when they commit these crimes with these murders don&#39;t actually don&#39;t actually and pass psychiatric assessment so this is good news and subscribe good news it stones to stop people trying and it is finally no scapegoat and which I don&#39;t like this picture of the girls right it is not scapegoat for your for life&#39;s problems Oh editor of a scientist gone that&#39;s fine it&#39;s not a scapegoat for life&#39;s problems as many people will have you believe so you know when you&#39;re going to lecture it&#39;s not a good job yeah I mean wait where&#39;s the old dog ate my homework excuse now we&#39;re faced I know I&#39;m sort of faced with her oh well actually I have I have a dog alternate personality who ate my homework so I decided to just no that&#39;s not good so numbers this excuse this use of scapegoating really isn&#39;t anything to do with having GID and it should be put that way it&#39;s really really awful and people assume that I think that a lot I&#39;d like to turn up to lectures late just to some walls you know I turned out from you like hey you know sorry one of my officers loved it this morning alright it&#39;s an excuse to say that you stayed up party no no I really he really stayed up but people still assume that I&#39;m using it as an excuse and this has got to stop so this giant wall of text you see here comes from a little book called the diagnostic criteria of mental health disorders it&#39;s the DSM for text revision Diagnostics but I&#39;m not going to try and shove this giant bull text on the throat instead I&#39;m going to try and break it down into small pieces so we can get a better understanding of exactly what&#39;s like so let&#39;s start first with what is dissociation what is the D and D ID well like the cartoon says how do you ever driven down familiar roads only to wake up somewhere different or enjoy that book so much that I was seen to pass by in minutes this if you have experienced it is a type of dissociation don&#39;t panic I promise you this is perfectly normal and a dissociation is a disconnection in the mind so it does connect you briefly I think from a moment of consciousness it&#39;s a helpful and normal abilities all people possess in a young age and it helps us gain dream all keep our heads through stressful situations and it&#39;s it&#39;s only when and this is this is perfectly normal and it&#39;s only when it begins to interfere with your life disorder then become a disorder so that the associate becomes a disorder it&#39;s when you know you&#39;re looking at books and I was not it&#39;s more than you&#39;re losing hours you&#39;re losing days weeks months sometimes in years is this when disorder instrument Association becomes a real disorder so these there are five other types of dissociative disorders you&#39;ve got associative amnesia researched a few key personalization dissociative disorder not otherwise specified and while be focusing on today which at the ID so the first one in the DSM states is the criterion that you need to match the inner actual diagnosis it&#39;s the presence of two or more distinct personalities or personality states so if I just give you a demonstration these little lovely cartoons are pictures of orcas so this is where they could look like and bit me as few and a person as s22 or hundreds one of my friends with this condition actually has over 100 personalities can you imagine well I can&#39;t even I know if I don&#39;t later have all and the thought of having a hundred people inside is just it&#39;s crazy to me it&#39;s mind-boggling I mean can you honestly believe that these alters live in like it&#39;s sort of an inside will they have their own little inside realm now this inside realm can be nothing it could just be in black space black space or it could actually be a lot more complex it could be a place where you know you have them it makes them with some alternate selves have islands of their own they may have countries they may just have a little house a little tent and some altars have the whole world inside their head this is their sort of inner world it can be anything it can be anything that the person with the disorder has come up with this isn&#39;t the conscious thought but these alters live within this inner world and I&#39;m really sorry that&#39;s complex but I&#39;m hoping that of you I&#39;m not lost you just yet so some wheels may have schools and living and shopping and Jobson and social systems don&#39;t have any so some people with this disorder who have personalities in their inner worlds they don&#39;t have anything like that so they may just have a blank space or may not know their inside world actually exists the world&#39;s not alleged in is just as diverse as the condition itself the criteria at least established at least two of these personalities and come forward which is why I&#39;m moving on to next ether are called chemical triggers personalities or alter personalities can be triggered out it can actually be triggered at all the stitch so this this girl here has seen her favorite teddy bear which causes the switch between personalities so this could be quick and dramatic or subtle and half-speed personally for me my alters act gladly they are only comfortable acting as themselves in front of people that they&#39;re comfortable with so um you know some people say that the you can instantly see a child personality come out you can see and you know major differences between people but actually that&#39;s not necessarily the case alters can be welded and it just depends basically on the strategy and the functioning of the system of the person in in charge so yet these this is how an alter can come forward they can come forward through a trigger do something they like something they dislike and or they can just come out from your water why not why not you know they because you see a box of paint something hey you know I party throne box and it&#39;s all around the wall they can do that it&#39;s just whatever they decide they can come out they want do whatever they want and unless there is a routine structure which is what we&#39;re going to a little bit later on okay so second on the list at least to these identities routine you take control which is just what we just covered and let me see yeah this is a great example so this is it I won&#39;t be obviously to change and a person who saw me and my alters at one person don&#39;t forget my office act like me will probably describe me as a moody and indecisive person this is because they are viewing me is one person and not doing it separate people so you can see here that in the first book she&#39;s like she&#39;s being asked how to do and she&#39;s look good how are you in the next book like what&#39;s that that she&#39;s like your mom and this is you know can be a typical dramatic change in attitude personality expression in child mannerism anything so this is the second one what&#39;s in my screen no facts that are like ice cream is that ice cream can I have some please which is great this is my very overdramatic and yeah this is just a typical you know a typical switch that can happen and some alters may say that they don&#39;t they have an allergy to for example when you have allergies peanuts but actually another person in the system actually eat peanuts and not have allergic reactions not that I would tell you to do that if I don&#39;t know and except there have been cases of this happening and so one may not like ice cream another middle of ice cream one going up that daytime TV another one may water daytime TV building it completely depends so this girl here I was what I&#39;m going to show you it&#39;s it&#39;s this video for inside and it&#39;s a little short film that was made on YouTube and one thing I think about this film all that was a little eerie and a little severe it shows a person with multiple personalities in psychiatric ward it actually does paint a very good metaphorical picture of what it&#39;s like when alters try and routinely take control of a body or person so one I really hope that you know you guys can see that as well on your feet dr. Lawson see personalities you can&#39;t there&#39;s again eres Joey and beau for weeks now we&#39;ve been talking you&#39;ve introduced me to a lot of different people each with a different thing so my question is Who am I speaking to now next week you&#39;re up for evaluation if it goes well we&#39;ll call for a supervised release program and eventually the only way you can get better is if you work for the government you&#39;re inside my head you can read my thoughts I&#39;m being held here against my will you&#39;re here because the alternate selves inside your head taking control then tell me John Jacob Jingleheimer that&#39;s my day too Oh Deary me are you quiet I am here to help you but I can&#39;t do that if you won&#39;t listen the only way you&#39;re getting out of here is if we work together now you were going to say something go ahead please for Daniel is dead good to have you back take your doctor it&#39;s good to be back it&#39;s been a long time business now can you hello Daniel I&#39;m dr. Blake as you know you get for evaluation next week if you don&#39;t mind like to ask you a few questions so are we how eerie was that never get a little twist at the end that was quite good right and it shows I thought it shows we were these the most horrible state of alters taking control and mainly the power that they could have older person but as you can see if you&#39;re watching from the naked eye if you couldn&#39;t see these people standing behind it very disabled person a senior school despite up being a little eerie I think it&#39;s a displays it really well if we&#39;re moving on third we have the inability to recall information now this little wire could be pain in my backside it&#39;s one of the worst parts about having the idea to me it&#39;s the amnesia that Blackhouse the pure dissociation as like I said in books you know that the minutes if you get if you really get into about minutes tend to pass by so so quickly it&#39;s actually a whole new level for me I could be I could just go to bed a night and then wake up the next day and randomly the street not know where I was heading what I was doing or why I was there and this is quite a common phenomenon with di D and it&#39;s also it&#39;s also quite infuriating as I&#39;m sure you guys can imagine so this is an example I can&#39;t control the person to lose time anywhere from seconds here&#39;s an example of this is if you were in a different building for your friend during what I did and language personality who&#39;s not around at the same time as another so basically in another personality comes out it exacerbates the dissociation exacerbates the memory osmium Niva the person thing not necessarily half so if another also comes out the other alters and myself may not know what they&#39;ve done that&#39;s what these are slides are saying the best example I could give you guys is probably a drop night out now if you ever had that where you&#39;ve drank so so much you just woken up the next day and not remembered anything you&#39;ve done the night before and all you have a few clues you have to check your phone you have to check your bag you want to check what your friends are said this is exactly what it&#39;s like everyday sort of piecing things together what has previously happened and it can be quite some scary for some people that have to go through this but this has become I think so routine for me personally now I&#39;m just really affected by it but I do tend to avoid alcohol or avoid anything that may exacerbate this dissociation because it is quite a difficult thing to deal with as I&#39;m sure you can imagine finally first associative experiences and the idea itself is not caused by our pretty pretty much straight forward and again at the bottom children which is not a fantasy player or imaginary friends so if you have imaginary friends the child don&#39;t worry that that first memory friend is not likely to be in all brain so basic overview Vig is the dissociative disorder not a psychosis with personality disorder alters can live in simple or complex inner worlds and take full fantastical individual one of the most prevalent effects of tid is memory loss and amnesia this is often they&#39;re not always related to horse horses to alters coming forward and taking place post and NTID is diverse from person to person and I took the little di community that I have I never once met another system server so each and every system is so different so fast there is no wonder why the criteria is so basic for this disorder so let&#39;s get complex one of my favorite works if the brain was so simple in understand it will be so simple even mind is blown we have literally just covered the basics of the idea and I really hope I have often guys so far and and I hope that now you&#39;re ready to dive into a little or a little more complexity would an abnormal detail or the condition area a little more detail about the condition the best work morbidity there people don&#39;t know what that means it basically in these conditions that are generally associated with the disorder so things that come about because of it&#39;s almost like an a symptom and so headaches 90s which headaches they tend to be cool and what&#39;s the people of the di D community these headaches often really hard to control they can&#39;t necessarily be controlled via drugs and and often the best remedy really is just to sleep is just to sleep it off and people aren&#39;t quite sure why they happen and they have been tested a few times but some different areas keep coming up on the neuro scanning and depression obviously if your alter was coming out how many times a day spending all your money maybe you know I don&#39;t know kicking your girlfriend or boyfriend out of the house you get quite depressed too uncomfortable you&#39;d understand and the rest of pretty straightforward anxiety substance abusing disorders post-traumatic stress disorder and other disorders so bipolar disorder borderline personality disorder and they&#39;re all quite prevalent within this condition but this is the part that might blow your mind these conditions may not necessarily be in the house they may be in the altars one of my alters for example Jake has bipolar disorder so I don&#39;t have I don&#39;t have bipolar disorder but he does so he what I literally have a disorder within a disorder it&#39;s like Inception disorder okay this one right yes I will demonstrate how a person despite all these problems can function to a normal level they can function to a good level and it&#39;s um in some cases expelled into extremely well just like this gentleman John and which I will show you in this time John is a police officer and he received awards and commendations and yet he is other separate associate identity disorder John is an expert marksman he was an Army Ranger and sharpshooter and target practice is altered personalities take turns shooting jabs personalities have different styles and firing a gun Scout shoots from one knee what is your function in the system of your function yeah my act is the zoom discount John shares his job as a police officer with several personalities who have different abilities he switches when different police skills are needed and is always aware of what his other personalities are doing when you&#39;re out here it sort of depends on the situation normally I&#39;m out quite a bit at the time as John began pursuit he switched to a personality who is good at driving in high-speed chases when the stop was made there was another switch and John returned to confront the driver of the truck boy how fast you&#39;re gone among his fellow officers John has a good reputation lieutenant Pritchard is his commanding officer john knows what&#39;s going on when he&#39;s out there in any given situation he&#39;s he&#39;s able to make decisions on his feet in tough situations and just think really fast this is why we were in st. Louis at the training academy my working dog in me the rookie handler we were patrolling together for five years best partner I ever had much better me to fully partner I never worked with John showed us his scrapbook of 13 years as a police officer he&#39;s had many awards and commendations which began early in his career in 1982 I was ordered the outstanding officer the Year award by the JC&#39;s which is an award the top of every year hi while he was showing us the scrapbook John switched to a 10 year old personality named Johnny hi John had trained his dog to stay out of the living room but when he switched the dog entered sentencing that his master was no longer present ok that&#39;s John he&#39;s an adult in he&#39;s a policeman the child personality of Johnny recognizes John in the photograph and sees him as a separate person award awarded as Johnny read the article from the scrapbook and like a ten-year-old and trouble understanding the words in pours cement officer of 1982 by the oh gee jakie when John switched back the dog recognized him and left the room if he had been trained you know it&#39;s really interesting to see that even animals and it&#39;s it&#39;s been suggested babies can pick up these really small signs and that whoever maybe there isn&#39;t there so as you can see the dog left and entered the room with master was wasn&#39;t there and what I wanted to show you was the sort of also the cooperation like you&#39;ll notice that John almost had an ability to keep his office under control you know he chose one one came forward to do I think it was like a high-speed chase and then he would then choose when to come back and continue with them you know with his job this is a thing called consciousness or confronting and it&#39;s actually something the therapists aim to get you aimed to get a person - there&#39;s no consciousness what is it is it the best description I&#39;ve ever come across so accurately so everybody has and their body is a car and you guys the driving your car pretty basic right your body you drive your body for some of you with multiple personalities there are several people in the car always how much that personality has access to you so they can be the passenger seat in backseat or in and when two or more people are in the car or helping drive this is calm consciousness or confronting so it&#39;s almost like what an altar is on standby and they build here see things that&#39;s going on but may not necessarily have it have them have the ability to do anything about it so it&#39;s basically taking turns to drive the car and it&#39;s learning how to drive this car learning how to cope front can make some function complex oh right yeah so and there&#39;s analogies little you can have different mannerisms terms of voice handwriting and in physical condition which is really great just a bit a bit crazy to some people but as you&#39;ll see it&#39;s endemic demonstrations I have I think it&#39;s quite weather obvious abuse you know have that ability and they may not even be aware of each other so it would be like I guess imagine all of you in row at the moment you are in one body people in your room you don&#39;t know all those people you&#39;re all you might do if you do you&#39;re lucky and if you don&#39;t all the people in that is if you were also have my dear of the other people either and happy houses who can work they may or may not know each other they may have ability to come out they may not have to do tonight it is completely different from person to person so we&#39;re on to meeting the offices that means from our personal experiences for this condition so meeting your core business week this is Jamie 23 is right-handed this is every 25 he&#39;s left-handed Jake who&#39;s 21 now his birthday was yesterday and he&#39;s right-handed and all of those ten who is right-handed you can see here with the examples of writing that they&#39;re all very uniquely different took we&#39;re up to up step and to operate Syria to get these things but I think they really show a fascinating difference between them and another thing like I discussed in the previous slide was about physical condition now I noticed that I was getting some heart it would go regularities and I&#39;m one doctor suggested that actually it could be one of our personalities so we grew up to the test this was my normal ECG checkup and apparently what it looked like but then I was hooked up to a wire for a week and every time J came out and had to press a button these rejects results so you can see here that there is a vast difference I mean I don&#39;t know peacefully like me but you can consider this an atrial fibrillation or just ejector this is a heart arrhythmia noticing change and doctors basically reporte to if they can&#39;t give me medication because change the problem it&#39;s only when he comes out which is over time so this is inception at the book but this is quite fascinating to me anyway so I&#39;m going to give you a little bit of blind date one day this is Jamie he&#39;s a protector organizer right-handed bisexual with amidst English accent he&#39;s intelligent he does need glasses so if you see me wandering I&#39;m glasses you may not be air he may be conscious and watching watching you go through a paternal he wants kids more than I do and you&#39;ve got a great perfumer and he&#39;s a logical this is Eddie he&#39;s a persecutor now persecutors tend to do harm to the audio do damage the body or do things to disrupt that mechanism so it&#39;s quite quite difficult having him aboard and he&#39;s gay he&#39;s anorexic bulimic his smoker is the only one of us smokes I&#39;m the way he&#39;s artsy he&#39;s very he&#39;s perceptive and he has a puss on coffee I&#39;m coming I hope you robot you vote and so yeah moving on then we have Jake use of the emotional side of things it&#39;s straight here bipolar disorder which had been diagnosed he&#39;s not a bad ghost with dyscalculia I&#39;m pretty sure that he&#39;s got this condition as well as well you can&#39;t be you can&#39;t be master love sport and separation anxiety insomnia which we think is collected is bipolar he speaks in American accent California 50 precise he&#39;s quite sensitive emotional antiques vegetarian so I need a rubbish cook so everything like opium big meals and I have to cook lasagna and cook spaghetti my absolutely lasagna spaghetti all it has to be vegetarian because if Jake comes out the week you will starve because all you can do is need a sandwich so yeah and Holly who&#39;s ten years old and he is intelligent he has very strong views for little ten-year-old is the only one of us suffice with Magnus you know that&#39;s quite a stick and none of us have gotten like this in about six years so through all this time always be taking these and these might they actually become night terrors over time and he&#39;s also the only one of us lactose-intolerant so as you can imagine we have to balance dietary requirements quite quite you have to plan ahead by bit and then you get linear love milkshakes and ice creams only so much you can happen to do unfortunately and you&#39;re supposed to read he loves to read a scientist at science books and he loves dinosaurs so this is a little video of us that just a compilation of us together this is on my youtube channel more participe and me one was and welcome to go to it and this is the I&#39;m going to just give you a little rundown before they are the first speaker is Jamie and I just sort of drawing you attention really I think the facial features the difference in accents and mannerisms are them I described in the previous post absolutely you don&#39;t know my name is Jamie and I&#39;m currently 23 years old and I&#39;m about 5 foot 10 give or take an inch or so blackboard shoulders so why all of these skin green eyes and I&#39;m extremely attracted that&#39;s just me baking Eddie while you were worried you know and then can you gather I don&#39;t you pick up a man we&#39;re talking about guardianship I remember this because we start the couch watching EastEnders my balance is like people find about the candy when you bring a plan code make sure we can either use your ass I guess myself my name is Jade I my accent in seven years so my witness like five six around here yeah ha I&#39;ll be first hi guys Oh yes this is the really really fun day and whatever one is like it still quite hard for me to watch that part okay a little bit steady when I see all of them being associated oh my god it&#39;s really embarrassing to me I&#39;m just trying to come to terms with it though it&#39;s not embarrassing you know it&#39;s the way that is my partner&#39;s actually starting the audience and he takes all yesterday&#39;s like to cinematic ice cream takes into the playground so six week as you know this is what I mean you know this such a vast difference between them and I really hoped I mean that I know their own tiny clips I just didn&#39;t wanna waste too much of your time and but you can check out my channel more my Ultron experiment lines and it reached 25,000 views which is quite a lot for a little mental health law and the second one is what this D&amp;E is my brand new one I think it&#39;s on applies in music moments I think thank you for mostly what a view that the students who may have already seen it because the views have got a blow up over the past couple weeks who are really be appreciated and so demonstrational is good I hope I have asked you guys too much and but what I&#39;m planning to do is there ask a few people to maybe come from I need one person to be a host might be I mean three people to be alters and basically I just want to give you all an insight to what it&#39;s like sitting with the ID through through but through a core normal day do I have I take so many bright people yeah great anyone else come on push amazingly it was nice to meet you do anybody else yes go ahead okay great thank you so much just to see if the guy to be happy go mix up a little bit yeah yep come on back I mean 150 other girl you know yes sure come on come on time I&#39;ll be great thank you so much okay so we have to hang it yeah Damien and pepper pepper pepper I&#39;m Sam Sam lovely home to me you guys thank you so much right okay I&#39;m going to give you these bells actually who is going to be the host yeah lift issuer first this people hands are going to be hugs do that okay okay brilliant now these bells just give you an example of what it&#39;s like for an ultra scope conscious and then they suddenly have a problem with something you&#39;re doing so every time you have a problem with whatever Luke says whatever Luke does I&#39;m going to ring the bells and then I&#39;ll ask you why a problem with that and see if we can get around that don&#39;t avoid Esprit simple to worry too much and we&#39;re just going to give you a normal day so what time is usually goes about four so four five in the morning for you live I&#39;ve got more time to go to bed halftime report it ranges reindeer can be there like that&#39;s funny so how would you get about how would you go about this it&#39;s my problem how haven&#39;t you come to you all realizes I&#39;ve had an alter yeah yeah he&#39;s also how do you manage the donut is the altar also a good bedtime yeah okay but let&#39;s start with your normal breakfast so what would you have what&#39;s your ideal breakfast porridge stuff our answers sorry porridge I&#39;m just already know verge of like cereal what would your baby which were clustered could you have could you handle a few days of crunch in it that&#39;s good okay cool so we&#39;ve had punchy nut clusters the cereal we&#39;ve had your favorite breakfast we&#39;re going to move on what time would let&#39;s say what time would you have like what you have today what would be your ideal dinner um my chicken basic Curry&#39;s pretty is just like my name this is great so how would you handle this - a chicken call inviting I&#39;m a gimmick or maybe coming baby hungry baby how much you&#39;re not alrighty eat the chicken sure okay yeah this is good okay that&#39;s fine okay so what would you do with your day or your favorite weekend what would you do favorite weekends I probably over there we go out thing well what would you have proper nuts I like your feathers no I don&#39;t drink I&#39;m calling it was absolutely so this is another problem so we have to work we have to work out something we have to because you can&#39;t go back right so if we were going to go out us let&#39;s potentially go back to your favorite bar and you saw the school just feel I presume that you like you know that girl&#39;s great and what&#39;s your favorite succulent if that was your favorite celebrities that right there gorgeous spits lefty who to be that&#39;s such a nice collar Johnson saw that pretty it just do to my girls do it yeah yeah great would you date a woman well I&#39;m more interested in where the school you know what where&#39;s the university work coming into this a week my goodness is just a weekend are you a heavy University but everybody oh you&#39;re heavy work yeah yeah have you seen Henry mister to baby with hot Playhouse kind of it yeah yeah yeah so okay so we&#39;re good with college and apparently this is quite an unusual person I was by expecting for bells free rinsing no no I don&#39;t like women I like that that was like this weird with my with Scarlett Johansson I think it&#39;s like it&#39;s what I&#39;ve been like and and so how many drinks would you have guys and I guess you said you didn&#39;t drink how about you TJ oh the light weights or would it be that much moderation moderation and what is it you do I don&#39;t even take you guys along side a gin and tonic gin tonic how about those what you don&#39;t know Oh from those good and so you&#39;re stumbling hope you have had a bit to drink have a drink what is your take that food that you have to eat sober up probably over Chinese revoir my dear ajahn Chah avoided yeah so we&#39;ll be through this we will help eating right yeah so this is great and you want me to cheering so you can eat a kebab I&#39;ve never tried to give up so I really I don&#39;t have a great day it&#39;s long it&#39;s pot sublime talk about the chicken like thanks it&#39;s going to be awesome so finally what time did you crawl and sweat under my hair three three four thank you ever so much later the oceans at home thank you very and you ever so much to do that&#39;s pretty brazen you guys and I just wants to give you a demonstration and really repo and what it&#39;s like I can&#39;t go a whole day but so what I have this problem I have a problem with what you&#39;re doing I&#39;m puzzled with Jake I have a Gingka versus a problem with you getting up to 7:00 a.m. I&#39;m an insomniac and half sleep all night so we&#39;ve got this problem of I do I don&#39;t go to my 7:00 a.m. lecture what have stairs all night so it is this way it works so so hard as you can imagine to juggle this but eventually if you can through therapy you&#39;re working out contrast think should be want to do you know it isn&#39;t through working out on attraction and that&#39;s where you know you can actually get better so I&#39;m just going to go to a contract here and this is from a show called the United States of Tara and it&#39;s quite as being the showing in America it&#39;s the fictional show and also it&#39;s fictional but it&#39;s a brilliant brilliant I actually think it&#39;s quite quite on ball and what condition is that like Terra is a mother with the ID and the scene is basically showing her and her alters trying to function trying to get together and work to build this consciousness and in this contract so they can actually work as a team it starts right now right now Nona selfishness no more hijacking no more excuses no more passing the buck sure from now on my life will be organized my life my liberty I hereby declare my benevolent dictatorship to be in full effect long live the king it&#39;s me in a field stone don&#39;t know how I&#39;m supposed to feel about is called my good sir twisted steel I&#39;m crazy crazy don&#39;t wanna spell yeah you know that&#39;s quite hard always a hard hit in contrast really oh yeah of the things that could go wrong and it&#39;s an unfortunate reality that has happened to a lot of people with the disorder but when they think that they&#39;re making progress sometimes things that can happen when they slip back so it&#39;s going to be pretty disgusting out the causes of DAT this is a great example I love so a person experiences trauma like this poor guy here this is extremely distressing corners between France and to deal with these overwhelming feelings they dissociate a new personality comes forward takes care of the job and when everything is fine again everything is smooth yoga the control returns to the original personality and let&#39;s go back and it happened again and this is right this is a routine of how alters are created obviously you can imagine that the Torah is not just related to dropping eyes it&#39;s actually quite severe some people experience a ton of abuse cult abuse sexual abuse rape physical abuse or anything that you can think of generally happens at a very young age they think before the ages of 10 years old and apparently because none before this age so if this happens all the age of 10 and the person that has to be prone to PTSD and there is a chance that deserted by those people so this is a study of paula now this this woman here she is very very bad she has 19 personalities and very much like you saw in the United States of Tara she hasn&#39;t reached the contract with her just yet and so this can be quite happy I can definitely show you what it&#39;s like living about died battle from within Paula Hamlin has 19 different personalities that can literally take over her mind and body in an instant David Richardson has her story this war is under attack Ola is fighting something someone inside her who is trying to get out and take control Paula has dissociative identity disorder or di D this attack is being waged by one of ninety personalities inside her hola need you to come back hola hola sorry sorry I didn&#39;t know that was gonna happen but it&#39;s been happening for years you had 90 personalities we believe that there would have been around 90 Paul ahem looks like a healthy 47 year old woman but inside her liver small army of personalities she calls all turns different people created after a shockingly traumatic childhood she refers not to discuss the altars were created to help Paul survive the brain is an amazing you know you&#39;re the organism that that was its trick to help Paul survive she had a central altar to organize everything named Patricia there was a five-year-old child called Sydney and a woman who obsessively cleaned all right with the running to the cleaning it was an art even a male figure a personality who loved to drink and a woman who smoked and partied I had an altar that smoked and whenever I would then come back I would be vomiting for about two hours afterwards because I do not like cigarette smoke did you find strange clothes after things in all the draft that I I&#39;ve never won that I don&#39;t even know how to wear them oh do you know who checked he was - but the whole time Paul was taken over by one of her alters she wouldn&#39;t have a clue where did Paula go escape escapism I think it&#39;s a bit yeah I Paul woods go inside almost like going to sleep realizing something was terribly wrong Paula sought psychiatric help it took seven years and countless hospital stays for doctors to work out what was really going on that she was dissociating from herself just like the character in the United States of time right now right now no selfishness no hijacking no more excuses and no more asking about the hit show starring Australian Toni Collette is a virtual mirror image of Paula&#39;s own fight for sanity so I just want to explain my map right now I&#39;m still listed see you I&#39;m under a lot of pressure lately it&#39;s doin&#39;s scared it&#39;ll only stir lemons during our filming and Paula vanishes in a second to be replaced by Cindy it takes her close friend to drag Paula back it&#39;s terrifying to witness even more terrifying to experience we really need to discuss how choice would be it&#39;s a survival mechanism it&#39;s something that&#39;s actually a useful way of surviving what otherwise would be an abusive and rejecting environment that might push someone into suicidal psychosis clinical professor of psychiatry dr. Warwick Middleton has spent 16 years investigating di D and there&#39;s more people like Paul are in Australia then you could possibly think something in the order of 1.1 percent of the general population suffer from dissociative identity disorder and and another significant percentage would suffer something that&#39;s a variant of condition so our populations for 20 Millions is what you talk to hundred thousand you I feel like I&#39;ve missed out on a lot of things a lot of experiences a lot of life you know and this I got a night I&#39;ll brief for those losses the battle fighting machine okay here we are and so yeah we just did seem cooler in 1915 al-aziz we&#39;ve got another therapy intriguing and this is only controversial condition please be reasonable we have sixteen stinkers not even only one frame this is a common thing in America two people believe that American American therapists in particular at create this disorder we&#39;ve created here to generate disorder so they can get money basically from their potential and the I need people I&#39;m hoping I&#39;m really hopefully only in places like the UK so therapy and treatment is very very basic video because only two types this therapy normally requires talking self-help and the co consciousness I was talking about that can be reached through journals and think about writing each other notes you see my room it&#39;s covered in sticky notes fighting each other notes and understanding each other no you know what they want what&#39;s going on and there&#39;s no medication video is no such thing as a dissociative medication so the only thing that could be treated the comorbid disorders which I talked to you about earlier visualize things like anxiety depression meaning eating disorder whatever that may be and if you run into a problem like a civilian are Jake with bipolar it&#39;s a lot more difficult to treat the second calls the therapy is integration our integration is the merging of personalities so it&#39;s it&#39;s not necessarily getting rid of all the personalities but its condensing a large amount saying 100 personalities into a disparity and but as you can see sometimes that&#39;s not always the best option because if you&#39;re cramming 30 people that you want this maintain that this whole thing can completely change and this is so it&#39;s quite a controversial therapy always ie community but again it&#39;s all about their own choice and integration should never ever ever be forced upon occasion terrible video ad poisonous area pair personalities are created whole tragic memories which we discussed from the ice cream dropping mommy&#39;s memories breed personalities lose their purpose and go back to being one whole person at the moment having four boys yes with having four personalities I think I lost any of them I would lose this crucial balance and then something would go I think either and for me personally I&#39;m as far as I am with my I say much therapy I&#39;ve never had my own personal therapy and but with with how I manage I&#39;m happy with where we are right now that would be nice it&#39;s coming okay so the last thing I want to see is the last thing is I purchase off skiing or treating suddenly for personality disorder gee doc I feel like a brand new person will not be great it&#39;d be like myself I mean and okay so evidence I&#39;m this promise you hi I&#39;m Michelle and this is basically a blind woman blind woman who can see how are they related personalities and the different games came about tamil traumatic life events that I analyzed would not have any family deal with my girl the predominant personality of this interviewer was actually born Dianna 36 years ago the Burgos take over as the core personality she has been diagnosed as having 68 personalities all the different names ages and abilities throughout this interview you will see her change from Sweet sixteen year old mugger to Jackie a touch 21 year old to Corey a full year old who can neither read nor write and as you will see not all of these people are blind for the most part Ruby speaking with marker her vision is 2400 the state of California classifieds that is legally blind where a person with perfect vision can see something 400 feet away she must be 20 feet away to see that same image in simple terms she can&#39;t see her own face in the mirror it was as a blind girl that she sought treatment at Stanford University outside San Francisco this she would meet with a trained psychotherapist David Spiegel on first of all there&#39;s no question that it was real damage to her vision as you can see that her eyes do not move conjugate you know they&#39;ll track together she has his resting nystagmus of her Isaac where they move rapidly back and forth and that&#39;s something that a normal person just can&#39;t do they can&#39;t sustain this backwards on for very long at all so we know that she had some kind of injury when she was our mother tutors her during birth have left her with a knowledge of your visual handicap we watched his doctor speaking on getting on Illinois exam men for example welcome to my County well my guess would be that there&#39;s a person sitting here because of a machine but other than your speaking I would know that whether you&#39;re male or female I&#39;m not sure I&#39;m not sure mother-tested legally blind but then she changed who the four year old Corey someone else aged Corey oh good I want to do that now sorry I can remember big boy yeah boy I am good recipe I&#39;m dr. Spiegel and you&#39;re in my office tonight Central America Center as we say next little Cory has good vision could you look at me in this probably staining not have any Lestrade that&#39;s where wasn&#39;t enough I didn&#39;t eat a quadrant you sorry what color is that color this kind of okay manage my foot hold only teaching students sitting Anna gives you an example of the physical evidence the Jamie needs glasses for example Jamie&#39;s the only one of us that these lasses but this is a far far most to be a case of a person who was born blind and we see when when the office comes forward so biological evidence suggests that basically a DI D is the core in the amygdala and hippocampus of the brain and these parts are responsible for memories and emotional responses the amygdala in particular is when you have a fight or flight and response and and if you can&#39;t fight or you can&#39;t flight they believe that basically the amygdala sort of shuts which maybe shuts down and then sort of that&#39;s also in a way how PTSD is formed so the idea in PTFE in brain scans are very intimate and just before I fell off this this is my own brain I actually did a study here at the University it was a completely irrelevant study but I decided to try and I hope I&#39;m right because I got a woman yes three psychology students but I&#39;m pretty sure my evidence is okay and but you can see that the big red mass at the top um on this side and then it sits with a normal brain is whether you visualize and on the next one you can see on the slide over that&#39;s my brain and a little the big red splat isn&#39;t there and it&#39;s dead rather than being a circle shape it&#39;s more of a medium of snake&#39;s head sort of shape and you can see when we match this with PTSD brain it&#39;s it&#39;s saying and they believe that the under under an MRI scan the PTSD brain and a di D brain is a very very similar and this could be due to that&#39;s what responses how do you guys feel about watching more video because okay okay and okay so just going to go quickly to an MRI video and this is the last one in the evening we&#39;ll call the elders which I guess makes the distance with the writers order it came on as a result of traumatic childhood experiences and she was a child because of the horrible abuse that she was suffering there was no escape except by doing some sort of escape into another part of her her own mind letting another personality come out and take the punishment that her mother might be doling out as she&#39;s gotten older that pattern has stayed around when under stress Louie says she can still lose hours or even entire days as another personalities take over to protect her from difficult situations despite the experience of patients like Louise the condition remains controversial some feel that the other personalities have been invented by the patient or even by the psychiatrist this skepticism is partly due to a number of high-profile cases which have cast doubt on the very existence in the condition that&#39;s what IQ one of the most famous occurred 20 years ago when the murderer can be a key used multiple personality as defense claiming his alter ego Steve carried out the killings eventually he was proved to be faking it okay with dr. Cohn DS help louise has recently developed an unusual skill unlike most multiple personality patients she can apparently make a switch of the bond sure Oh what I&#39;ll do is just count from one to five dr. Conde says he isn&#39;t using hypnosis simply a technique to help Louise focus for oh I&#39;m sure medicine masala this is Elsi a french-speaking character mom I would wait I&#39;ve been watching later she becomes a child called watcher I&#39;ve been watching you saw some scary stuff huh this ability to switch it will makes release an ideal subject for research yeah in the last few years and almost college like this I&#39;ve different scientists unprecedented access to the brain allowing them to see brain activity actually taking place the question is can it shed some light on the mystery of multiple personality disorder it&#39;s something a colleague of dr. Khan Dean&#39;s ghost inside has wanted to try for some time the tool problem of to do is a starting number one in the past we don&#39;t have machine like FM I we can do the study quickly incorrectly number two we don&#39;t have the right subject which can come kind of control their switching because we need to have them to switch on the scanner my name&#39;s Susan I&#39;m lucky do it this year the doctor shows how they scan news his brain because she can bring on her switching they&#39;ll ask her to change character while the machine is on she won&#39;t be able to move or speak during the test so she&#39;s asked to activate a warning beeper to indicate when she switched hey what&#39;s your practice with that we that walk Louise is buzzed off to switch to one of her childlike personalities okay now I want you to switch to watcher now imagine that you&#39;re an eight year old girl named watcher you like to watch what happens with these the switch happens and then they do a controlled experiment the readers ask not to switch but to pretend to be an imaginary child I want you to imagine you&#39;re an eight-year-old girl named player you like to play with a neighbor girl named Helen the results of the original tests on Louise appear to show something remarkable these colored areas represent a big decrease in brain activity at the very moment three switches personality intriguingly it happens in the hippocampus and aeri responsible for long-term memory but there&#39;s no change during the controlled experiment as you can see here that&#39;s a French structure Co hippocampus at the area where activity got changed as highlighted by color here when she switched personality so what do you make of these results to me that is saying that there&#39;s a brain basis for her personalities reaching for Louise the results are great news I was ecstatic over the results because I finally there was finally proof a way to prove for all those people out there who don&#39;t or what to do and as it&#39;s such a controversial condition we have with us dr. Raj and dr. Tom Moyes Sharma and our episode you are convinced that the condition exists well like most British actress before this new study came along I was pretty skeptical but whether multiple personality disorder really existed that was partly because here in Britain we make the diagnosis much less frequently than they do in America and in Britain we often believe that maybe these people are pretending to have other personalities as a way of getting attention but the important thing about this new study and why it&#39;s very persuasive is that while this lady was in the brain scanner they asked her to pretend to be another personality and the brain activity changed that was different to when she actually was behaving as if she had another wonderful alternative personalities and this run-through of them just an MRI study gets done and finish off I&#39;m just going to show you very very brief experiments that were done that it&#39;s just a collection of what I found on Google Scholar that have been Dover di D and all the areas that I&#39;m going to highlight to you are the different differences they&#39;ve noted so in this first one subway Frederick and what they noted that it was difference in the primary sensory motor cortex which they put down to the classical as swag facial changes in body changes when I one and all forward the second one the nucleus is acute in humans that are that word and they think it&#39;s associated with the reward people won&#39;t make money at this switching is almost more signal that sent when a person switches I don&#39;t understand that because for a person would do e when you switch it&#39;s almost like a relief you feel like that and it can be quite hard to get a addictive habit of switching whenever you award whenever you were happy with it sad angry whatever and so I think it&#39;s almost like a euphoric experience the prefrontal cortex they believe is the executive it&#39;s going to be good so obviously what a person is switching they fix it the executive control most of the brain people if you want to call it that makes these changes but also lateral and virtual prefrontal cortex Alan Turing parietal cortex and the over 25 own finger the fusiform gyrus I understand that it&#39;s not quite right wait where it is but that&#39;s like you do on this server you ring and and they think that it&#39;s doing people with the ID may not have a great memory span but they can learn you want expected so when you really come up with an anagram for a certain word and actually I didn&#39;t realize until I find a study that&#39;s exactly what I do for example I write closing of those data graphs and I remember all of them and then those are enough to sort of don&#39;t you remember what I&#39;m supposed to write in the class and then finally superior and middle middle temporal jury and it&#39;s too low and everything else and it was recorded in this study that it was a noticeable difference in the blood flow in the front of the brain brain and there&#39;s a county a reduction of activity in the cerebellum when there is a switch happening so when it also comes forward there is reduction of activity within this cerebellum which is almost like you&#39;ll sort of force your pilot so let&#39;s put them together this is what we get every two researchers know exactly what they&#39;re looking for if you put all these pieces together we can really see that di D effects it is almost like another person living inside you entirely but almost the whole brain changes and these Dobby ones that I pulled up on Google Scholar in a night so you can see that the entire brain in different areas is affected by these personalities by these switches so what are we discovered the idea is a coping mechanism called from dissociation and is linked to Corbett&#39;s to PTSD anxiety depression Vetri dat may actually be scientifically measurable it is complex and controversial condition and no therapist anywhere has the right to say that this condition does not exist and trust me I&#39;ve seen many psychiatrists psychologists some very well some esteemed who told me that my condition was wrong and I hadn&#39;t got what I have and and because they didn&#39;t believe in a disorder or they they don&#39;t see the disorder the way you know that it is and then I try and put myself in their shoes and think if I didn&#39;t have this condition what I believe it myself and to be honest with you I&#39;m not sure where I would but my advice to you my hopes for you guys is that if you are going to be future psychologist psychiatrist please doctor a person away with this disorder just because you may not understand it doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s not real it&#39;s real to that so thank you ever so much the good thing about having multi personality that you never get lonely there will be a break now and then I will just for five minutes and then I will answer any q and A&#39;s for all those who stick around thank you ever so much for listening today and it means so much to spread the awareness you orbit amazing stay the baby water you

Transcript for:Lecture on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

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Lecture on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)