etiology
Etiology is the medical term for cause, those factors that predispose a person to develop a condition. In the case of DID and PTSD, the cause is trauma. DID develops when repeated, severe trauma occurs during early childhood. PTSD can develop at any age in response to trauma.
THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 15, Ch. 188, Dissociative Disorders: "North American studies show that 97 to 98% of adults with dissociative identity disorder report abuse during childhood and that abuse can be documented for 85% of adults and for 95% of children and adolescents with dissociative identity disorder and other closely related forms of dissociative disorder."
THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 15, Ch. 188, Dissociative Disorders: "North American studies show that 97 to 98% of adults with dissociative identity disorder report abuse during childhood and that abuse can be documented for 85% of adults and for 95% of children and adolescents with dissociative identity disorder and other closely related forms of dissociative disorder."
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