DIAGNOSIS
If symptoms are available, an assessment will be done with a complete medical history and physical tests. Even if there are no laboratory tests that can diagnose dissociative disorders medically, various symptomatic tests, like blood tests or imaging (X-beams, CT scans, or MRIs), might be utilized to preclude physical illness or medications’ side effects.
TREATMENT
Treatment of dissociative identity disorder will include the following methods:
- Psychotherapy: Occasionally called “talk treatment”, psychotherapy is the fundamental treatment for dissociative disorders. This is a broad term that includes a few types of treatment.
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy: This type of psychotherapy centers around altering dysfunctional thinking patterns, practices, and emotions.
- Dialectical-behavior therapy: A type of psychotherapy for individuals with serious character disturbances, including dissociative symptoms that regularly happen after an encounter of trauma or injury.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: This technique was intended to treat individuals with tenacious bad dreams, flashbacks, and different indications of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
- Family therapy: This helps train the family about the problem, and aiding relatives perceive symptoms of a recurrence.
- Creative therapies: These treatments let patients explore and convey their emotions, thoughts, and experiences in a protected and inventive surrounding.
- Meditation and relaxation techniques: These assist individuals in tolerating their dissociative symptoms better and becoming more mindful of their inner states.
Clinical hypnosis: A therapy that utilizes profound unwinding, fixation, and focused attention to accomplish a changed condition of awareness, letting individuals explore feelings, thoughts, and memories they may have withheld from their conscious minds.
