Research Mental Disorders

During my project on mental health disorders, I delved into various conditions and found Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) particularly compelling for raising awareness. DID is a complex psychological condition characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states or identities within a single individual, accompanied by memory variations that vary with each identity. These distinct identities may have their own names, ages, histories, and characteristics. Research on DID has highlighted the significance of trauma-informed therapy as a cornerstone for treatment, including psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). These therapeutic approaches focus on integrating the different identities into one primary identity, improving the patient's ability to cope with trauma, and teaching skills to manage dissociative symptoms. The experiential procedures in these therapies, such as exposure therapy within CBT or mindfulness and distress tolerance skills in DBT, have shown promise in helping individuals with DID to confront and process traumatic memories safely, facilitating a pathway towards healing and improved functioning.

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Facebook Page Solution: Create Facebook Page

There was a part of the instructions that helped lead to my decision to do DID as my mental disorder for this project. The Instructions said "Create a Facebook Page that a person with a disorder owns." 

So I took this as ok I need need other people for this project, let me create my own page and I'll go with the DID disorder and create profile for each personality type I have. But in actuality what was suppose to happen was my professor would create the page for all of us students.

Anyway my teacher love my initiative and problem solving skills but loved my project more. (We'll get into that with further phases.) so I posted both on my page that I created and the class page with my Ide dominate personality.

Make Facebook Posts Over The Next Few Weeks

For this phase of the project I spent the next few weeks making posts for all my personalities, both on my page and commenting in the group page. This page was the class as a whole, commented pretending to be an online help group for people with disabilities to get help. It taught me a ^Kool new way to use facebook to reach out to other and how to create a community that could be supportive.

Create The Video Presentation With Comments Overlay

For this part of the project, I used Adobe Premier Pro to clip and merge parts of an animated tv show with various popular songs, then overlayed a few of the screenshots of the chat comments into the video. I also faded facts and information about DID throughout the project including processes to cure the cure the disorder. For A link to the full video Click Here

Present The Video For Evaluation

For this phase of the project I had to present my disorder in front of the class, and explain what the disorder was and how is could be cured, if possible. I did a brief introduction to the video presentation, and then played the video which did most of the heavy lifting for me. For a school project I had a lot of fun with this one because I was given a creative license to be as out of the box as I as I wanted to. I loved how the Facebook page was use as a safe community, and how we had to merge the comments into our presentation. All in all I was really proud of how I performed on this project and so did my teacher as I was given an A for my work.