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Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)

There’s a change in type of the health care facility from ‘Developmental disorder’ to‘Dissociative identity disorder’, but the main aim stays the same. ‘To help people to adapt into society’

Followings are the description of DID.

Dissociation is the state in which a person becomes separated from reality.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), sometimes referred to as Multiple PersonalityDisorder (MPD), is a disorder involving a disturbance of identity in which two or more separate and distinct personality states (or identities) control the individual’s behavior at different times. When under the control of one identity, the person is usually unable to remember some of the events that occurred while other personality was in control. The different identities are referred to as “alters”.

Typical types of alters:

*A depressed, exhausted host.
*A strong, angry protector.
*A scared, hurt child.
*A helper.
*An internal persecutor who blames one or more of the alters for the abuse they have endured.

Symptoms
*Voices Differences
*Physical Differences
*Handwriting Differences
*Time Loss
*Depression

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Treatment

Treatment for DID consists primarily of psychotherapy with hypnosis. The therapist seeks to make contact with as many alters as possible and to understand their roles and functions in the patient’s life. In particular, the therapist seeks to form an effective relationship with any personalities that are responsible for violent or self-destructive behavior, and to curb this behavior. The therapist seeks to establish communication among the personality states and to find ones that have memories of traumatic events in the patients past. The gold of the therapist is to enable the patient to achieve breakdown of the patients separate identities and their unification into a single identity.

The personalities do not have an extraterrestrial origin, but can be traced back to the characteristics of real-life persons who have formed a strong impression upon the sufferer, who has then personalized them and unconsciously developed them into a character of his own. In short, each personality is nothing more than a satellite, a superficial fragment split off from the parent individual as a result of extreme stress-yet from our point of view the equally important aspect is that each is extraordinary convincing.

Main spaces needed within facility would be:

Entry, Reception, Waiting --> Consultation, Hypnotherapy -->

Observation, sleeping (and/or) --> Meditation, Outdoor --> Medication

I do not want to limit the facility to be used only by the people with DID, I want the facility to be more like, ‘support and consultation centre’, where anyone who wants to talk about there problems can come and feel relief at least while they are in the facility, and lead them to a better way by sharing and reducing pain.

There is no such medication or treatment better than communicating with people, and enjoying a life.

Ref. www.nami.org, http://allpsych.com/disorders/dissociative/did.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders

Experiment #4

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Reference

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)

http://allpsych.com/disorders/dsm.html

Initial Idea

Initial idea of my Health care facility is for the people who have 'mental retardation' problem.

There are three criteria before a person is considered to have a mental retardation:
* IQ below 70,
* Significant limitations in two or more areas of adaptive behavior
(i.e. communication, self-help skills, interpersonal skills, and more)
* Evidence that the limitations became apparent before the age of 18.

By most definitions mental retardation is more accurately considered a disability rather than a disease. Currently, there is no "cure" for an established disability, though with appropriate support and teaching, most individuals can learn to do many things.

People with this disabilities learn throughout their lives and can obtain many new skills even late in life with the help of their families, caregivers, clinicians and the people who coordinate the efforts of all of these people.

The purpose of this health care facility would be, by specific programs (include architecture) that people with developmental disabilities can take part in wherein they learn basic life skills. It would be more like child care centre looking rather than hospital.

Ref. Wikipidea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation

Experiment #3 - NIGHT

Experiment 2 - Montages & Textures

Experiment 2-1
"Life...?"
-its about how i feel when I first visit the site...

Experiment 2-2
"Light...!"
-Site at night! walk towards the light...! = Life...!"

Experinemt 2-3
"Stop...!"
-elements that leads us to stay away...