Dissociative Identity Disorder

As our main character that will be featured in our film opening suffers from dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder), I thought that it would be necessary to research the disorder in order to create a lifelike, believable character. The following two links were extremely informative:

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder

http://psychcentral.com/lib/dispelling-myths-about-dissociative-identity-disorder/0009785

Below is a summary of the main points.

Dissociative identity disorder is a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or sense of identity. It is thought to be caused by a traumatic experience, the dissociative aspect being a coping mechanism.

Symptoms:

.The presence of two or more distinct or split personalities, each of which have their own age, sex or race.
.Inability to recall key personal information
.Depression
.Mood swings
.Suicidal tendencies
.Sleep disorders
.Anxiety, panic attacks, phobias
.Amnesia
.Time loss
.Trances
.'Out of body' experiences

DID is treated with therapy, psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. There are no medication treatments.

0.1% - 1% of the population suffers from dissociative personality disorder.

It is possible to not know that you have the disorder.

The main symptoms that our group has decided to focus on are amnesia, time loss and trances. This is because we want our character to be confused and unaware of her other 'life' as a killer.