I live in Indiana, and find it strange they have no recommended age for home alone yet, they do have an age requirement as to when a child can be left in the care of a sibling child, and that age is 11.
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. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a combination of factors that may include trauma experienced by the person with the disorder.
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) remains a poorly understood. phenomenon. With the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or. DSM-IV, there has been a name change to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Both terms will be used in the following paper though, according to the.