Brigid has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Brigid is the host personality. We can expect that the alter identities
a. are very much like Brigid.
b. are strikingly different from Brigid.
c. only "come out" when there is no stress in the environment.
d. are very much like one another.
b. are strikingly different from Brigid.
8.1-62 Octavia has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She has seventeen different "alters," which are strikingly different from her host personality. Some of her alters are not full personalities, but fragments and memories. Some of the alters are children. What aspect of this case is unusual?
a. It is unusual for a person with DID to have seventeen alters.
b. It is unusual for a person with DID to have alters that are very different from the host personality.
c. It is unusual for a person with DID to have fragmentary alters.
d. No aspect of this case is unusual.
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