Here's some things I found on dissociative disorders (including multiple personalitity). Let me know if I'm way off base.

Diagnosis:
Anxiey [severe/panic]/Fear may be related to maladaption to ineffective coping continuing from early life, unconscious conflict(s), threat to self-concept, unmet needs, or phobic stimulus, possibly evidenced by maladaptive response to stress (e.g., dissociating self/fragmentation of the personality), increased tension, feelings of inadequacy, and focus on self, projection of personal perception onto the environment.
Violence, risk for, directed at self/others: risk factors may include depressed mood, dissociative state/conflicting personalities, panic states, and suicidal/homicidal behaviors.
Personal identity disturbance may be related to psychologic conflicts (dissociative state), childhood trauma/abuse, threat to physical integrity/self-concept, and underdeveloped ego, possibly evidenced by alteration in perception or experience of self, loss of one's own sense of reality/the external world, poorly differentiated ego boundaries, confusion about sense of self, purpose or direction in life, memory loss, presence of more than one personality within the individual.
Family Coping, ineffective: compromised may be related to multiple stressors repeated over time, prolonged progression of disorder that exhausts the supporive capacity of significant people, family disorganization and role changes, possibly evidenced by family/significant other describing inadequate understanding or knowledge that interferes with effective assistive or supportive behaviors, and relationship/marital conflict.

Let me know what you need, I have medical books.
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