what are the most comon causes for multiple personalities?

Question

what or who causes mulple personalities within a peorson?

Answer 1

The most common cause of multiple personalities is childhood trauma. No one causes multiple personalities and regardless of what people say it is acquired through a series of events not one individual event. A person can have multiple personalities and not even realize it, there is usually one personality that dominates the others and is seen most often. Multiple Personalities cannot be cured like many people assume. The personalities can be controlled but they will always remain a part of the person.

Answer 2

Multiple Personality Disorder (or MPD) is a psychological disorder where a person possesses more than one developed personality. These personalities have their own way of thinking, feeling, and acting that may be completely different from what another personality is like To be diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, at least two of the multiple personalities must dominate over the others on a slightly frequent basis This results in an abrupt change in the way a person acts. Basically, they become another person in either an extreme or complete way

MPD was first recognized in the late nineteenth century by Pierre Janet, a French physician. The disorder was later brought more to public awareness by The Three Faces of Eve (1957), a movie based on the true story of a pristine housewife who was diagnosed with MPD when she couldn't explain why she would suddenly become a very sexual person and not remember it. The eighties and the nineties brought on what was seen as an over diagnosis of MPD

MPD is known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in the psychiatric world The reason for this change of label is that the term "multiple personalities" can be misleading A person with MPD/DID is one person with separate parts autonomously comprising their mind . They are NOT many people sharing one body Although it seems as though these "personalities" seem to be very different, it is important to understand that they are separate parts of the SAME person It is not correct to say that someone with MPD/DID has "split personalities" as this denotes schizophrenia. A person with schizophrenia does not have connected thoughts and feelings, they are "split" A person with dissociation, however, has memories, actions, identities, etc., that are unconnected. Different thoughts and feelings may be connected, but different thoughts and different memories may be connected to some and not the others. Everyone experiences this once in a while. Daydreaming, getting lost in a book or a movie, zoning out, etc. These are all moments of dissociation Just because someone has MPD/DID does not mean they can not function in everyday life Indeed, they usually have this disorder so that they CAN function.

There have been as many as 20 personalities [perhaps even 37] that have been reported About 1% of the population has some form of MPD/DID. In fact, of patients in psychiatric hospitals, possibly up to 20% have MPD/DID but are misdiagnosed. With these statistics, MPD/DID can be put into the same category as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia as one of the major mental health problems at present

Although the causes of MPD/DID are not completely understood it seems as if childhood neglect and abuse of some sort are the major causes The abuse usually occurs early in life, before the age of nine, and is commonly repeated and prolonged Due to this abuse, children may detach parts mind and create new personalities to separate themselves from their pain After long term abuse, these new "personalities," this dissociation, may become second nature. These children may use this technique to separate themselves whenever they feel anxious or threatened. Due to it's ability to keep a sane, functioning part of a persons mind in tact when all else seems hopeless MPD/DID can be seen as a very effective escape technique It is a very healthy, sane, and safe way for these people to survive an unhealthy situation

Answer 3

Communism

Answer 4

" A rather common view of MPD is given by philosopher Daniel Dennett.

...the evidence is now voluminous that there are not a handful or a hundred but thousands of cases of MPD diagnosed today, and it almost invariably owes its existence to prolonged early childhood abuse, usually sexual, and of sickening severity. Nicholas Humphrey and I investigated MPD several years ago ["Speaking for Our Selves: An Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder," Raritan, 9, pp. 68-98] and found it to be a complex phenomenon that extends far beyond individual brains and the sufferers. " see the rest: http://skepdic.com/mpd.html

Answer 5

Dissociative identity disorder is attributed to the interaction of several factors: overwhelming stress, dissociative capacity (including the ability to uncouple one's memories, perceptions, or identity from conscious awareness), the enlistment of steps in normal developmental processes as defenses, and, during childhood, the lack of sufficient nurturing and compassion in response to hurtful experiences or lack of protection against further overwhelming experiences. Children are not born with a sense of a unified identity--it develops from many sources and experiences. In overwhelmed children, its development is obstructed, and many parts of what should have blended into a relatively unified identity remain separate. North American studies show that 97 to 98% of adults with dissociative identity disorder report abuse during childhood and that abuse can be documented for 85% of adults and for 95% of children and adolescents with dissociative identity disorder and other closely related forms of dissociative disorder. These data suggest childhood abuse as a major cause among North American patients, while in other cultures, the consequences of war and disaster may play a larger role. Also, some patients have not been abused but have experienced an important early loss (such as death of a parent), serious medical illness, or other very stressful events. For example, a patient who required many hospitalizations and operations during childhood may have been severely overwhelmed but not abused.[4]

Human development requires that children be able to integrate complicated and different types of information and experiences successfully. As children achieve cohesive, complex appreciations of themselves and others, they go through phases in which different perceptions and emotions are kept segregated. Each developmental phase may be used to generate different selves. Not every child who experiences abuse or major loss or trauma has the capacity to develop multiple personalities. Patients with dissociative identity disorder can be easily hypnotized. This capacity, closely related to the capacity to dissociate, is thought to be a factor in the development of the disorder. However, most children who have these capacities also have normal adaptive mechanisms, and most are not subjected to the types of environments which can trigger dissociation.

Answer 6

Normally, the biggest cause is a traumatic event. The mind tries to protect itself, and splits the personality to keep the main personality from dealing with the after effects of the traumatic event (sexual abuse, physical abuse, etc).

Answer 7

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