A couple of weeks ago I reposted an article on the various levels of trauma-based disorders. It was an esoteric summation (uh, doing it again, huh?) of a complicated 40 some-odd page paper from the leading edge theorists of the Theory of Structural Dissociation of the Personality (click here for a power-point). Below I wrote this response to a friend on Facebook who asked me "Ok, so what is this all about?"
To survive traumatic events our mind must switch to evolutionary instinctive and reactionary defensive mechanisms. Sometimes these defensive systems become stuck and manifests in varying degrees as listed above (not the above in this post but in the above of the first link, which is actually--above--on this post. He, he).
Basically in a traumatized brain, the personality can split off and separate into different parts or sub-personalities. These "mini me's," in extreme cases can become divorced from each other and have their own memories, feelings, thoughts and behavior.
Read the complete post at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PtsdASoldiersPerspective/~3/GFrvYQ0bqUo/personality-combat-ptsd-did.html
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Nov 30 2009, 05:04 PM
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PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective