An example of a trauma that is meticulously described is PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with the survival of a severe experience - such as the death of a loved one, rape, an accident, participation in a war, but also events from youth or childhood that were impossible at the time, to experience emotionally. People with post-traumatic stress disorder struggle with very unpleasant effects such as flashbacks, that is, spontaneously occurring images of difficult moments that resurface in everyday life. It is crucial to point out that when confronting a traumatic experience, the strongest possible defense system is dissociation - dissociation from oneself as the highest level of coping with the trauma experienced.

 

DID (dissociative identity disorder) is characterized by the fact that there is a disintegration of the ego, and consequently such a person has personalities that do not know of each other's existence, so that with the help of a certain stimulus they peculiarly "jump" between each other. A person with such a disorder, may have memory lapses that are not standard forgetfulness, and may produce their own separate memories or identities. It even happens that they may identify with a different gender or have different sexual preferences, allergies or even intelligence quotient.The purpose of forming separate personalities is to protect the primary personality from pain.The therapeutic process for DID mainly consists of psychotherapy. The goal of psychotherapy is to find the original part of the patient and to integrate the ego, that is, to merge all the personalities into a whole, by healing the traumatic experiences of the individual personalities.