Can alters be aggressive?

Often alters are stable over time, continuing to play specific roles in the person’s life for years. Some alters may harbor aggressive tendencies, directed toward individuals in the person’s environment or toward other alters within the person.

Are Dissociative Disorders dangerous?

People with dissociative disorders are at increased risk of complications and associated disorders, such as: Self-harm or mutilation. Suicidal thoughts and behavior. Sexual dysfunction.

What is the difference between dissociative identity disorder and alter identities?

Alter identities may vary in gender, age, roles and attitudes. A person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), or a similar form of Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (previously called Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, or DDNOS-1) has a fragmented personality.

What is dissociative identity disorder (MPD)?

Alters in Dissociative Identity Disorder (MPD) and DDNOS. <<. Dissociative identity disorder was previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), sometimes incorrectly called “split personality”, it is characterized by the presence of more than one sense of identity within a single human body.

How does childhood abuse affect dissociative identity disorder (DID)?

Physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse in childhood leads to a significantly increased risk of suicide in adolescence as well as adulthood. Since 90\% of people with dissociative identity disorder (DID) have a history of childhood abuse and neglect, it makes sense that the suicide risk is so high; childhood abuse plays a significant role.

What do you call a person with multiple identities?

A person with multiple identities is often referred to as a multiple . What are Alters? Other terms for alter include: alternate identity, dissociative identity, distinct identity, personality state, personality, dissociated part, self-state, part, part of the mind, part of the self, dissociative part of the personality. [1,2] [6]:121