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Two of us live in this body
INTRODUCTION: The dissociative disorders are characterized by a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior. OBJECTIVES: We present the case of a 22-year-old patient, who has be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9567789/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2256 |
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author | Palomo Monge, M. Pérez Fominaya, M. López Rodrigo, M.V. Osca Oliver, A. Tascón Guerra, M.F. García Montero, C. Ros Font, V. |
author_facet | Palomo Monge, M. Pérez Fominaya, M. López Rodrigo, M.V. Osca Oliver, A. Tascón Guerra, M.F. García Montero, C. Ros Font, V. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The dissociative disorders are characterized by a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior. OBJECTIVES: We present the case of a 22-year-old patient, who has been following up for just over a year. The patient refers that two people inhabit her body, talk to each other, exchange opinions and both have control over the body, one giving the turn to the other depending on the circumstances. To this is added delusional symptoms of grandeur and sensorial-perceptual symptoms. In turn, depressive symptoms have appeared that have led the patient to have several suicide attempts throughout the follow-up time. METHODS: During this time, the patient has required hospital admission on two occasions due to the autolytic ideation. Treatment with neuroleptics and antidepressants has been established that have helped control delusions and thoughts of death, but not the dissociative clinic. RESULTS: Dissociative Identity disorder 300.14 (F44.81) CONCLUSIONS: The different symptoms presented by the patient, as well as the social and occupational deterioration that he presents, make this an extremely complicated case, both in diagnosis and in treatment. Dissociative identity disorder has been very controversial, changing its diagnostic criteria over time. More studies are needed and perhaps future research can give us more clues about this disorder. DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. |
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spelling | pubmed-95677892022-10-17 Two of us live in this body Palomo Monge, M. Pérez Fominaya, M. López Rodrigo, M.V. Osca Oliver, A. Tascón Guerra, M.F. García Montero, C. Ros Font, V. Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: The dissociative disorders are characterized by a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior. OBJECTIVES: We present the case of a 22-year-old patient, who has been following up for just over a year. The patient refers that two people inhabit her body, talk to each other, exchange opinions and both have control over the body, one giving the turn to the other depending on the circumstances. To this is added delusional symptoms of grandeur and sensorial-perceptual symptoms. In turn, depressive symptoms have appeared that have led the patient to have several suicide attempts throughout the follow-up time. METHODS: During this time, the patient has required hospital admission on two occasions due to the autolytic ideation. Treatment with neuroleptics and antidepressants has been established that have helped control delusions and thoughts of death, but not the dissociative clinic. RESULTS: Dissociative Identity disorder 300.14 (F44.81) CONCLUSIONS: The different symptoms presented by the patient, as well as the social and occupational deterioration that he presents, make this an extremely complicated case, both in diagnosis and in treatment. Dissociative identity disorder has been very controversial, changing its diagnostic criteria over time. More studies are needed and perhaps future research can give us more clues about this disorder. DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. Cambridge University Press 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9567789/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2256 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstract Palomo Monge, M. Pérez Fominaya, M. López Rodrigo, M.V. Osca Oliver, A. Tascón Guerra, M.F. García Montero, C. Ros Font, V. Two of us live in this body |
title | Two of us live in this body |
title_full | Two of us live in this body |
title_fullStr | Two of us live in this body |
title_full_unstemmed | Two of us live in this body |
title_short | Two of us live in this body |
title_sort | two of us live in this body |
topic | Abstract |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9567789/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.2256 |
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