A Client Diagnosed with DID Switches Personalities When Confronted with Destructive

question 1

Multiple Choice

A client diagnosed with DID switches personalities when confronted with destructive behavior. The nurse recognizes that this dissociation serves which function?

• A) It is a means to attain secondary gain.
• B) It is a means to explore feelings of excessive and inappropriate guilt.
• C) It serves to isolate painful events so that the primary self is protected.
• D) It serves to establish personality boundaries and limit inappropriate impulses.

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