Willie is the team's 'parent' and resident 'psychologist' and is one of the most serious, certainly the most clinical of the selves. Here Willie takes over the discussion as they confronting the Team's reflections on a DID diagnosis.
DID is an identity disorders but is commonly considered 'emotional disturbance' in children. Where DID occurs in a child with a developmental disability it could easily become one part of a range of issues that child has and so the child's DID may appear to be secondary or irrelevant until the child has overcome enough of the other issues for their to be some attention given to the DID.
DID may commonly present as other conditions including mood, anxiety, compulsive disorders and attention deficits and can occur in any child regardless of whatever other disabilities or conditions that person may also have. Because DID is essentially one of the most severe stress related disorders a child can develop so it is common to see it MANIFEST as a range of stress related co-morbids.
Those with DID may also suffer health disorders which can be exacerbated by severe chronic stress and high energy expenditure that occurs in DID. Those with health disorders significant enough to cause regular dissociation from the body may also be more prone to DID.
I have had diagnoses of being psychotic (age 2 in 1965), emotionally disturbed (school psychologists assessments through mid childhood in the 1970s), medicated for mood and anxiety disorders and juvenile arthritis (1972-73 aged 9-10), language processing disorder (age 9 in 1972), gut immune and metabolic disorders and atypical epilepsy (my 20s), autism (my 20s), on bipolar medication since my 40s (originally Risperdal then Seroquel).
After 44 years of I was finally formally diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder when I went for a routine appointment with a new psychiatrist to have my Seroquel reviewed.
Donna et al
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