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1. Dissociative Identity Disorder is characterized in the DSM IV by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of behavior. In spite of its inclusion in the 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' (Edition IV) some psychiatrists believe there is no such illness as DID.
2. Dissociative Identity Disorder is essentially the same as Multiple Personality Disorder.
3. Patients with DID have more than one person living in their bodies.
4. DID manifests itself the same way in every person affected.
5. Some alter personalities are so completely separate that they establish independent lives.
6. All persons with DID are aware that they have it.
7. Many people with DID spend around seven years in the mental health system before they are correctly diagnosed.
8. The goal for healing for every person diagnozed with DID is always integration.
9. In DID there is always a 'good' personality and an 'evil' personality.
10. DID usually occurs when a person is abused beyond their ability to cope.
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