with multiple personality disorder?
2006-09-10 22:01:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Because they're not educated?
Anyway, there's no such thing as multiple personality disorder anymore. So, why are you calling it that? It's called dissociative identity disorder now.
2006-09-10 22:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. I've seen that ever since I was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, and I've never understood why people keep referring to schizophrenia as "split personality." It may be the actual name (schizo - divided; phrenia - mind) that is the problem: "divided mind" sounds superficially like "split personality." The disorders are different, however.
A person with multiple personality disorder actually creates discrete personalities, usually with different names and occasionally with different gender(!), to segment aspects of their lives that would otherwise be unbearable. Abused children are most often the ones who create these "separate realities." One girl is a little vixen; one a little mouse.
Schizophrenia, on the other hand, is an emotional war within oneself. Different goals and needs, different attitudes; love/hate relationships within the family can cause it. The inner struggle is known; not blocked, the way it is in multiple personality disorder.
I used to wish I COULD create a separate personality to live in, to avoid the internal war. Never managed to get the sides separated enough to give them different names and build the "firewall" between them. Finally, other methods created a bridge over those troubled waters for me. Tantra is healing, my friends.
2006-09-10 22:15:25 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are uninformed. Schizophrenia is when someone hears and
or sees things that aren't really there. And it is a terrifying thing for them to
have to deal with. Whereas, MPD, people turn into another, without even
knowing it. The multiple personalities aren't aware of each other. And they're
"true" self, may wind up "waking up" to somewhere they have no idea how
they got there. Missing time happens to them. They account for where they
have been or what they were doing when the "other" personalities take over.
These personalities must be "integrated" with each other, for the person to
become well. Because, as a child they were usually traumatized severely,
and parts of their personality "split" because they couldn't cope. So, theyre
unconcious, would form different parts of their personalities, to fight for them
since they felt so helpless as a child. Their emotions, are what theyr'e
different personalities are.
2006-09-10 22:20:31 · answer #3 · answered by CraZyCaT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people aren't really familiar with mental disorders. For some reason, unless you're a professional or someone who has experienced it, either with someone or themselves, people don't want to know or associate themselves with it.
People have a hard time understanding mental diseases, as if it's bad luck or something. They just rather sum them up as "crazy people"...
My cousin was diagnosed with schizophrenia, that was my wake up call. I had heard of it but no clue of what exactly it was. I know now....
2006-09-10 22:13:19 · answer #4 · answered by Jmyooooh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because people don't read up on these two disorders. Experts for many years have been explaining that these two illnesses are different.
2006-09-10 22:11:12 · answer #5 · answered by DawnDavenport 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My 5 twelve months previous did this at one factor. She used to assert she says undesirable words in her head and he or she feels undesirable for it. It freaked me out for somewhat, whether it went away noticeably right now, like it substitute into in basic terms a point. If it maintains and it sort of feels in assessment to her, i'd enable the first practitioner be attentive to easily by using fact psychological subjects runs contained in the kinfolk. sturdy success.
2016-09-30 13:54:40 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend that hears voices.
I have another friend who's voice and expressions change when her "others' come out.
People just don't understand or know the correct symptoms of each disease.
2006-09-10 22:29:45 · answer #7 · answered by snowcrablegs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it looks like that person has a different personality, but in fact, a person who is schizophrenic is just having delusions and the delusions they have are just like the ones if they will daydream (what they want in their mind).
2006-09-10 22:10:23 · answer #8 · answered by NobleScarlet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they didn't see "A Beautiful Mind."
2006-09-10 22:17:08 · answer #9 · answered by Coltrane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋