The mind uses dissociation as a coping mechanism for excessive stress.

Dissociative
episodes might last for only a few hours or days, or they can last for several months or
weeks. It typically occurs in people who already have other dissociative disorders but can
occasionally endure for years. Several individuals who suffer from dissociative disorders
experienced a traumatic event as children. As a coping mechanism, they could detach and
avoid dealing with it. The matter to be tested is that if you have dissociative identity disorder
and sleep less than the recommended amount for young adults (between 7-13 hours), then
your condition will get worse.

To be able to evaluate the statement, background information is essential due to the dearth
of research on this topic.

Multiple personality disorder was the previous name for dissociative identity disorder (DID).
A person with DID could be unsure about who they are or of their identity. Other personas
with their names, voices, pasts, and idiosyncrasies could be perceived by them.

The primary signs of DID include forgetfulness relating to routine activities and private
information involving several unique identities

This is one of the most dangerous psychological issues because it often derivates from
physiological matters. It is concomitant with insomnia, and it is a double-way illness,
meaning that one can cause the other. The causes of the often-considered consequence of
sickness are stress, fretfulness, or sorrow, noise, an overheated or chilly room with
uncomfortable beds, Jet lag caused by working overtime, alcohol, coffee, or nicotine, and
hedonistic substances like cocaine or ecstasy.

They could be caused by a past traumatic event or by a propensity for physical rather than
mental signs to manifest during times of stress or anguish. A dissociative disorder sufferer
may have had a history of emotional, sexual, or physical abuse as a child. After suffering
war, kidnapping, or even a traumatic medical treatment, some people detach. Disconnecting
from reality is a common defense technique that aids in coping with a distressing event.
Denial in the sense that "this has never occurred to me" is what it is. When a situation is no
longer disruptive but a person nonetheless behaves and maintains as if it still is, having not
wrestled with or absorbed the event, it becomes a problem.

In a strictly medical analysis, DID patients' brains exhibit reduced cortical and subcortical
volumes in the hippocampus, amygdala, parietal regions involved in sensing and
self-awareness, and frontal structures involved in carrying out movements and acquisition of
fear as compared to those of normal controls, what added to the medical condition of
insufficient brain arousal, or hyperarousal, that tends to coincide with insomnia, creates
major brain damage that can seldom cure.
The vast majority of the cases are tightly tied to other mental disorders, so this link between
DID and insomnia is proven right, to this is added that they coincide in two major parts that
are key for the generation of those specific brain alterations. With that data, it can be
demonstrated that, if an experiment was done, the results will, most probably match the
hypothesis, because, even if there are not two exact circumstances inside the brain, the
worsen or improvement in the DID (dependent variable) is conditioned by the amount and
quality of sleep (independent variable) and the time the patient falls asleep, the bed, the
medication, the activities and the medication taken throughout the day (controlled variables).

To synopsize, dissociative identity disorder is closely related to insomnia and they have a
synergistic relationship in which one worsens the other, so it can cause the sole one. To this
is added that they have symptoms in common and they both affect the parietal and temporal
lobes in the brain. Ultimately, twain can be caused by retained and unnoticed trauma,
making the combination of these two diseases one of the most minacious and unexplored
topics of which we are aware nowadays.

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