5. A
depressive SP
D, a
teenager girl with DID, who is usually generally active and optimistic, becomes
occasionally very low-keyed and suicidal, which often bewilders her parents as
they are oblivious of the nature of dissociative disorder that their daughter
has. One day, when her pet hamster dies, D’s reaction was that of sadness and
grief, but within an understandable degree. However, at that night, a
depressive SP appears, laments the pet’s death, cries profusely, accusing
herself of not having taken good care of the hamster and becomes pessimistic
and even suicidal. D’s parents were reminded of the situation when D’s last psychiatric
hospitalization occurred a couple of years ago, when D became seriously suicidal
and threatened to jump off the window when her best friend became distant. (That
hospitalization lasted only a few days as D was not found suicidal and did not even
remember her suicidal act, which precipitated the commitment.)
