The main symptoms are of course, abnormality in behavior, and it varies from person to person depending on the nature of the personality he/she possesses. However, the noteworthy factor is his extreme mode of activities that cannot be counted by any means within the paradigm of normalcy and very often appears as self –explanatory of its abnormality. Very often, the order of the personality seems to be irregular and informed or aware of some factors similar in nature.

Some of the major associated features of this kind of psychosis are:

• Panic attack
• Phobia for some particular or for multiple factors
• Suicidal tendency or a tendency to self-harm
• Sleep disorder like insomnia, sleep walking or shouting at night or feeling of night terror
• Frequent mood swing
• Depression or frustration
• Alcohol or drug addiction
• Trauma for some factors or events or about some situation

There are some similar features of the abovementioned problems and associated symptoms. Therefore, there are some precise clinical tests to judge the parameter of this personality disorder and in these below mentioned parameters the disorder is judged:

Intoxication caused by alcohol

Posttraumatic disorder (PTSD)

An overall medical condition is evaluated by general observation and tests.

Nowadays treatment for this sort of psychological disorder is possible although it is ling –term process. It needs cooperation from the side of the patients as well as from the relatives of the patient. Psychotherapy along with proper medication can solve this problem In fact both the medicine and counseling work as others supporting aid, so if this sort of disorder is felt, immediately a person should contact a clinical psychologist.

In most of the cases, the symptoms of this type of disorder are chronic in nature. It tends to disability, if not physical obviously mental, and sometimes proves to be fatal. Most of the patients of this psychological disorder have a general tendency of self-harm and prone to create self-injury frequently. Some of the patients are observed with a tendency of self-mutilation. In extreme cases, a dangerous suicidal tendency is observed and it recurs time to time. These patients need to be in proper surveillance.

Mode swinging tendency is a general symptom of this kind of patients and it creates a complete unpredictable social profile for the affected person. The mode swing happens due to the undulation created by multi personalities and when one personal trait collides with another or two of the personalities remain active at the same time. This causes depression, and depression often proved fatal for him, or for other associates.

Panic attack from time to time is another obvious and alarming symptom of this disorder. This sort of attack may be generated from any prior traumatic incident, or may be caused by the awareness of another personality within self. It may be the reason that personality A is aware of personality B and B is not aware of personality A but aware of personality C.

Addiction for alcohol or drug is another associated symptoms of this disease. The disorder creates a make believe world to live and with the help of drug and alcohol the patient of DID can escape from this real world.

Some psychologists in their research methods have found good response about the drug induced hypnotic method where they declared its easy to find out the traits of other personalities haunting his sense and creating the mental gap causing disorder in the personality. However, this process is discarded by most of the psychologists nowadays because they are of opinion that it creates itself a trace of multiple trait of personality.

Treatment procedure for this disorder is prolonged and is a combination of psychological counseling and administration of certain medicine in its right proportion. In fact, in the treatment process, medication and counseling therapy works as a substitute for each other.

The main problem of Dissociative identity disorder is functioning of multiple personalities on a single entity that create chaos in execution of activity; symptoms are allied to this problem. The main aim of the treatment is to integrate all the personalities into a single trait of personality.
Medication works as a supportive tool or this process and can control depression, frustration, or kind of mood swings.

Some of the patients of this disorder may suffer from sleep disorder, loss of appetite, sexual impotency, and other psycho-physical problem, counseling and proper prognosis about the specific problem have been proved helpful. Counseling therapy is a long-term treatment process and on requirement may be required for 3-8 years/3-4 times in a week and it may vary depending the responsiveness of the patient.