Disorders

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) used to be known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). A person has several rather than one integrated personalities. People with DID commonly have a history of child abuse or trauma. We've all experience mild dissociation before which is like daydreaming, and getting lost in the moment. However, dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Along with DID comes:

• Mood swings
• Psychotic-like symptoms (including auditory and visual hallucinations)
• Suicidal tendencies
• Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias (flashbacks, reactions to stimuli or "triggers")
• Eating disorders
• Depression
• Alcohol and drug abuse
• Compulsions and rituals
• Sleep disorders (insomnia, night terrors, and sleepwalking)

Bipolar depression also know as  manic depression causes serious shifts in mood, energy, thinking, and behavior—from the highs of mania on one extreme, to the lows of depression on the other. Bipolar disorder involves periods of depression and manic episodes. Manic episodes involve feelings of high energy. During a manic episode, a person might impulsively quit a job, charge up huge amounts on credit cards, or feel rested after sleeping two hours. Depression episodes involves feelings of low energy. During a depressive episode, the same person might be too tired to get out of bed, and full of self-loathing and hopelessness over being unemployed and in debt.