Dissociative identity disorder

14.11 Case Studies on Patients with
DID
A’Lexy Memmott
Roseanne
Barr is a famous feminist comedian and actress who changed television history forever. Things for Roseanne weren’t always all fame and glory as she suffered from a mental illness called dissociative identity disorder among other mental illnesses. Dissociative identity disorder is a mechanism created to disassociate ones self from traumatic or painful events that usually take place during childhood. When the mechanism takes place, two or more different personalities take over a person’s behavior.

Roseanne was brought up Jewish in Salt Lake City, Utah with her mom, dad, brother and sister. She lived in a very religious neighborhood that was Mormon based. She also has a Nazi neighbor that had came straight from Germany that reportedly would always make remarks to her about being Jewish and would talk to her about Hitler. Roseanne has made claims that her DID come from different things, one of which started in a church level.

After learning a little bit about Roseanne Barr’s background I found a few things that I think could have caused her diagnosis of DID. One short documentary I watched about Roseanne was one of her