Trauma And PTSD: A Literature Review

There are special characteristics of DID that make it unique compared to other trauma disorders like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Repression of memories is similar in both DID and PTSD, but there is a difference between memory problems that are within personalities (Hunjens, Wessel, Hermans, & Minnen, 2014). Maisese (2016) gives insight on trauma and the link between trauma and DID. She says that children who experience psychological, physical, or sexual abuse from a caregiver that the child trusts, may attempt to psychologically escape the abuse by letter the inner selves deal with the traumatic events. Reed-Gavish (2012) brings a new perspective on what causes dissociative breaks in survivors of incest trauma and how that becomes

(2016) conducted a study on individuals with BPD and PD. They took individuals with BPD and divided them according to high and low PD. They investigated the history of trauma, clinical status, and measurements of emotional and psychological responses to the recall of avoided experiences. What they found was, participants with BPD and those in the high PD category demonstrated the highest degree of trauma exposure and clinical symptoms. Participants also had several emotional responses to imagery that reinforced the idea that peritraumatic dissociation may play a role in processing memories of traumatic events. They found that there was a different reaction pattern displayed by patents with BPD and PD. This may point to the altered memory representations. It could contribute to the development and preservation of severe psychopathology in BPD. Again, Dissociation is a symptom of BPD. If they symptoms are severe enough, it can become DID (Gillig, 2009). Although we can see that trauma seems to be linked to DID some who do not see DID as a real disorder claim that these individuals fantasize or create false memories to make the trauma more