Question by CommanderCrusty: How do you treat Dissociative Identity Disorder?
What is the treatment for multiple personality disorder? Assuming it is real and involves a young man with five or six alternate personalities, what kind of therapy should he get? In this fictional case, the split was caused by sexual abuse and witnessing the murder or a fellow captive.

What kind of drugs?
What kind of talking?
Anything with Rational Emotional Therapy that would work?
What would stand in the way of success?
CAN he be cured?

Go ahead and make a group therapy joke, as long as you also answer the question. Thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by mattie ladd
psychotherapy and supportive therapy play a big role in treating DID. The optimal goal of therapy would be the integration of all of the personalities, but in order for this to happen, a level of comfort between the patient and the therapist is extremely important. A reason integration may not occur is because the patient feels they are destroying an aspect of their personality. A lot of patients with DID have tend to have depression and anxiety so medications can be used to treat these aspects. Patients with severe depression may receive electroconvulsive therapy. However, when it comes to medication, some patients resist because they feel they are being controlled (this could lead to further traumatization). Controlling stress levels also plays a role in treatment as it is widely accepted that DID is a coping mechanism for stressful or traumatic situations (like witnessing murder or sexual abuse). DID is spoken of in terms of “treatment” not “cures;” management of the problem can only be achieved if the patient remains committed.

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