I live in Indiana, and find it strange they have no recommended age for home alone yet, they do have an age requirement as to when a child can be left in the care of a sibling child, and that age is 11.
However, dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a combination of factors that may include trauma experienced by the person with the disorder.
a group of mental disorders characterized by a sudden, temporary change in consciousness, identity, memory, or motor behavior so that some part or more of these functions is lost. The defense mechanism of dissociation underlies these disorders and any organic basis for the changes must be ruled out. group of mental disorders characterized by a sudden, temporary change in consciousness, identity, memory, or motor behavior so that some part or more of these functions is lost. The defense mechanism of dissociation underlies these disorders and any organic basis for the changes must be ruled out.