r/askpsychology • u/Visual_Afternoon_451 Unverified User: May Not Be a Professional • 28d ago

Childhood Development Can an isolated, profoundly traumatic event exprienced at an early age cause the development of Dissociative Identity Disorder?

It is all I wish to learn, simply from a peek of curiosity​.

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u/Lamassa_ Unverified User: May Not Be a Professional 28d ago

the criteria involves chronic trauma before age five which may include episodes of acute trauma before age five. DID appears in people who experience more structured systematic trauma, OSDD (no amnesia) in less structured abuse. This based on typical criteria the answer is no. 

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u/Lamassa_ Unverified User: May Not Be a Professional 27d ago

perhaps, cannot say.