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Dissociation
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Dissociation
Question One
There is a various psychologically proven defense mechanism of dissociation. One an individual can contact a therapist with writings about the multiple personalities they have. Identifying the two identities like two different people is a suitable mechanism. Secondly, people tend to come up with items that will entertain their other personality since they consider them as separate people. The other mechanism among the victims is that they become observant about scenarios that may result into dissonance. Since it is not easy to control one’s surrounding, the victims are in most cases aware of the events that could happen to them. The final defense mechanism is that the victims always engage in activities that make them feel relaxed.
Question Two
Scholars like Vissia et al. (2016) contend that dissociative identity disorder may be as a result of posttraumatic stress disorder as victims may find it extremely hard to confront a given traumatic situation thus slipping into dissociation. In other words, dissociation may be used as an adaptive or self-protective mechanism that a person uses to manage an extremely stressful situation. The first clinical difference is that even though the two both result after extreme stress, DID is more stressor specific. Secondly, DID results from repeated dissociations which majorly occur during childhood under extreme stress. On the other hand, the primary cause of PTSD is not apparent.
Question Three
The significant difference between depersonalization and derealization is that in the former a victim feels disconnect his or her body.

In other words, the victim thinks that he is separated from his or her body. Derealization, on the other hand, is a sense of dissociation from the surrounding around the victim. The affected in this case do not feel close to the outside world.

Reference
Vissia, E. M., Giesen, M. E., Chalavi, S., Nijenhuis, E. S., Draijer, N., Brand, B. L., & Reinders, A. S. (2016). Is it Trauma- or Fantasy-based? Comparing dissociative identity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, simulators, and controls. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 134(2), 111-128. doi:10.1111/acps.12590