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Comparison of DID Etiology from Merck's online manual to November 14th version of Causes/etiology section of Wikipedia DID article.

Merck's text and inserted 1st paragraph from in "Dissociative Identity Disorder and Childhood Abuse" section of second Merck article. Moved sentence fragment "and dissociative capacity" so it lines up with Nov14 wiki version.

Etiology
Dissociative identity disorder is attributed to the interaction of overwhelming stress (typically extreme mistreatment), dissociative capacity (ability to uncouple one's memories, perceptions, or identity from conscious awareness) and insufficient nurturing and compassion in response to overwhelmingly hurtful experiences during childhood.

Children are not born with a sense of a unified identity—it develops from many sources and experiences. In overwhelmed children, many parts of what should have blended together remain separate.

About 97 to 98% of adults with dissociative identity disorder report having been abused during childhood. Abuse can be documented for 85% of the adults and 95% of the children and adolescents with dissociative identity disorder. Chronic and severe abuse (physical, sexual, or emotional) during childhood is frequently reported by and documented in patients with dissociative identity disorder. Some patients have not been abused but have experienced an important early loss (such as death of a parent), serious medical illness, or other overwhelmingly stressful events.

Human development requires that children be able to integrate complicated and different types of information and experiences. As children learn to achieve a cohesive, complex identity, they go through phases in which different perceptions and emotions of themselves and others are kept segregated. These different perceptions and emotions become involved in the generation of different selves, but not every child who suffers abuse or a major loss or trauma has the capacity to develop multiple personalities. Those who do have the capacity also have normal ways of coping, and most of these vulnerable children are sufficiently protected and soothed by adults, so dissociative identity disorder does not develop.