Anyone of these abusive and traumatizing events could be a cause of Dissociative Identity Disorder. DDI can be caused when a person has gone through a traumatic experience such as a loss of a parent, sexual abuse, and maybe even war or a natural disaster. The idea is that when a person goes through a distressing event in life that they cannot mentally handle, that person tends to check out. In “Recovering Identity: A Qualitative Investigation of a Survivor of Dissociative Identity Disorder,” Fox, Bell, Jacobson, and Hundley discuss how a person with DDI can consciously zone out when a situation is to overwhelming. They describe it as being an alteration of their own self-conscious. (Fox, Bell, Jacobson, Hundley, 2013, p.325) In other words the event in which they go through becomes some overwhelming to them that they zone out so that they do not have to deal with it. This is where the idea of the other personality comes in, when the person zones out a new personality is able to come into the spotlight to help the person cope with the
Anyone of these abusive and traumatizing events could be a cause of Dissociative Identity Disorder. DDI can be caused when a person has gone through a traumatic experience such as a loss of a parent, sexual abuse, and maybe even war or a natural disaster. The idea is that when a person goes through a distressing event in life that they cannot mentally handle, that person tends to check out. In “Recovering Identity: A Qualitative Investigation of a Survivor of Dissociative Identity Disorder,” Fox, Bell, Jacobson, and Hundley discuss how a person with DDI can consciously zone out when a situation is to overwhelming. They describe it as being an alteration of their own self-conscious. (Fox, Bell, Jacobson, Hundley, 2013, p.325) In other words the event in which they go through becomes some overwhelming to them that they zone out so that they do not have to deal with it. This is where the idea of the other personality comes in, when the person zones out a new personality is able to come into the spotlight to help the person cope with the