Understanding how childhood trauma connects to certain mental health conditions

This research is trying to understand how often dissociative identity disorder and other dissociative conditions occur in people who have borderline personality disorder, functional dissociative crises, or early psychosis symptoms—and who have experienced childhood trauma. You would complete several questionnaires and participate in a detailed clinical interview to help doctors better recognize and understand these conditions in people with similar experiences.

Doctors know that childhood trauma can affect mental health in different ways, but they don't have clear information about how often dissociative disorders happen in people with these particular diagnoses. This study will help fill that gap so future patients can be identified and helped earlier.