Multiple personality disorder?

Question

ok everybodys no sure what im asking on my questions...so im gunna try again lol...sorry...my group for psychology is doing a project on multiple personality disorder...we need a lot of information our project is going to last 45 minutes...we are doing a slide show...not even half of the slides are filled...we still need statistics (how many people it affects, 3 of men, women, and children it affects, ect...), we also need how people develope multiple personality disorder (childhood memories, what kind of trauma affects it, ect...) any infromation that relates to this topic would be helpful...if you have any information that is not listed in my question and you think it would be helpful please include it...personal stories are nice to have as examples but please don not limit your response to stories...you can either email me, or post it on here...please include websites, books, or any other sources that would help us out....hopefully this is more specific...help is needed in all areas

Answer 1

Multiple personality disorder is very rare. In fact ,some do not think it exists at all.

It is caused by horrendous trauma, mostly repeated sexual abuse when children are very young. The child can not cope with the abuse, so their brain splits off. 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.

In fact, it is a very creative coping mechanism for the terrible situation they are in.The average patient has between two and 10 alters, but some have been reported with over one hundred.

It affects women more than men. The female to male ratio for it is about 9:1.

Answer 2

Multiple Personality Disorder: Primal Fear (best one I know) Antisocial Personality Disorder: Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon Schizophrenia: Beautiful Mind (based on a true story)

Answer 3

#1 thing that needs to be known about Disassociated Identity Disorder is that it is not and not the same as schitzophrenia. Many people who have DID have schitzophrenia in addition to their disorder, but the two do not always go together.
#2 It is more commen in women than in men. This is largely because DID is commonly caused by sexual trauma, which is more likely to occur to girls.
#3 Most people with the disorder are unaware of their condition until they are well into adulthood. I was 19 when I realized that not everyone switched into different people. I was 28 when I was diagnosed and my personal history made sense.
4# Many people with DID function perfectly fine without the need for intergration, in fact, some people have been traumatized by intergration attempts.

Hope this helps with your school project.

Answer 4

The new name of Multiple Personality Disorder is Dissociative Identity Disorder.

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.

A recent Japanese drama called Ikebukuro West Gate Park (or IWGP for short) centered around this. A girl who was sexually abused by her father during her younger years grew up into an adult that when she was faced with crisis situations, her alternate personality would take over - and that included killing people and making life in general miserable for her normal personality.

Answer 5

This should be posted under Homework Help. And you should be doing the research yourself. Use a search engine like google and type in Multiple Personality Disorder. Then READ.

Answer 6

If we really do go stumbling for information on your behalf... will you be giving us any credit when presenting the slides? Like... these guys at Yahoo Answers did most of the job... I just wrote it down. You're a no go.... Really, must we send you the finished CD... even present the slides and you just get the grade?.....

Answer 7

You're on the Internet asking this question and you couldn't google it for yourself?

Should we make up the PowerPoint presentation for you too?

Answer 8

I'm having trouble answering this question, because my alternate personality won't shut up.

Answer 9

I think that the problem with this question is that I like cake, no you dont, yes I do, yes he does, do I?

Answer 10

Read the book, "Sybil."