Okay, I have a very off the all thought/question. Recently I watched a program that discussed MPD/Disassociative disorder and the effects - where you are different people and sometims feel otheres or hear others in your mind. As a writer, I hear other voices in my head, fully formed people who have stories to tell and I know other writers have the same. Do we have a 'healthy' form of MPD?
2006-07-16 18:10:56 · 12 answers · asked by Diana D 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
No you don't, you are just blessed with creativity. As long as you don't believe that you are that person and just use those thoughts as creative ones, then your still sane.
2006-07-16 18:14:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, you don't have a form of MPD. What you have is a creative mind. People who suffer MPD will lose track of time, because the other personality takes over the body for awhile. Some people actually have two entirely different lives & it takes them years to find out. Neither do you have Disassociative Disorder. A person who suffers for DD can sit still & watch while something horrible happens to someone they love & have no emotional reaction to it.
2006-07-17 01:17:18 · answer #2 · answered by coffeevonhelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow that's a wonderful question. I really don't know if there is a healthy form of MPD. But I understand where your coming from. It'll be interesting to see what others think.
2006-07-17 01:14:15 · answer #3 · answered by Microsoft Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Offhand I'd say you just have a very creative mind. As long as you recognize that you're the basic personality and the other voices you hear are a result of creativity, then you're okay. I always liked the way the difference between a neurotic and a psychotic was defined: "A Neurotic builds castles in the air....a Psychotic lives in them".
2006-07-17 01:18:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jolly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never seen or read anything on Multiple Personality Disorder that could make me think it was anything but a crock of ****. Some moron trying to pull a con job to get out of being charged for a crime, or just trying to get attention. How they fool those in the field of psychiatry beats me.
As for the voices authors hear, it's not a mental disorder, it's just creative imagination.
2006-07-17 17:59:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You distinguish them as being in your head most MPD people would believe they are real with a separate existence from your own.All people talk to them selves ( have an internal dialog) I think you have a well developed imagination but there are tests if you are worried.
2006-07-17 01:18:35 · answer #6 · answered by Daniel H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's normal. I never met any one that hasnt battled voices, often they get so loud we tend to think they are real.
It's neat to simply think that your special and you can hear spirts talking. Intresting, often the voices remind you where the car keys are.
If you have a complete, open mouth convercation with the voices, and you cant tell the differences between real and fake, then you have a problem.
2006-07-17 01:14:33 · answer #7 · answered by looking4_friends13 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You are unhealthy if you fit to like 5 characteristics from 8 or 10. If you only hear voices, coesnt mean you are ill.
2006-07-17 03:14:47 · answer #8 · answered by Solveiga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats an interesting way to look at it. I don't see why not, maybe in a way we are all disable or not in our right mind, in one way or another. I think that maybe some of us can deal and handle it better then others.
2006-07-17 01:22:13 · answer #9 · answered by Sketch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. I think you're just creative.
2006-07-17 01:13:30 · answer #10 · answered by cucumberlarry1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋