This corresponds with Skinner’s “conditioned seeing”; a person may see a certain stimulus but it is not present, but stimuli that accompanied that specific stimulus is present. For example, if one remembers their emotions of the past, they will remember past events, if they do not remember the emotions then they will not remember past events (Brady,2000). The 12-month prevalence of Dissociative Identity Disorder among adults in a small U.S community study was 1.5%. The prevalence for genders in that particular study was 1.6% male and 1.4% female (DSM V, 2013). The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each …show more content…
What is known is that, early stress has been shown to be associated with the changed in the structure of the hippocampus, which plays a large role in memory, and stress regulation (Vermetten et al. 2006). Memory, or lack there of, is highly associated with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Many times with Dissociative Identity Disorder, patients lack memory and show amnesia with certain events, sometimes long term and other times short term. The mean of the left and right hippocampal volumes of patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder as 19.2% smaller than that of the comparison of healthy subjects (Vermetten et al,