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 â now known in modern psychological lingo as dissociative identity disorder (DID) in the DSM-IV â is a fairly uncommon mental health concern. But it remains an intriguing one because of its nature: The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states.