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.
Formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a condition in which a person has two or more distinct identity or personality states, which may alternate within the individual's conscious awareness.he development of dissociative identity disorder is understood to be a result of several factors: 1  Recurrent episodes of severe physical, emotional or sexual abuse in childhood. 2  Absence of safe and nurturing resources to overwhelming abuse or trauma. 3  Ability to dissociate easily.