split personality...?

Question

i'm curious about how a person can form two personality? how the whole thing works and how to actually cure it!~

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-personality Try that. Has lots of info about split personalities.

Answer 2

first i want to say split personality is NOT schizophrenia, that is a different disease with different symptoms, don't let that Jim Carey movie mislead you.

Split personality is multiple personality disorder, a type of dissassociative disorder in which you seperate from yourself, this time splitting into two - or more personalities.

It can basically just be formed by stress, or abuse, or repressed memories, ... mostly as a defense mechanism for yourself, I would think. I don't know, but I think it could also come from something genetic or hormonal based, kind of like being bi-polar, only a step farther up. Lol.

Treatment is usually drugs or maybe therapy to try to figure out what your body is protecting itself from. That's how I understand it =)

Answer 3

What you refer to is Multiple Personality Disorder. Usually a person suffering from this mental illness has more than two personalities. People who were sexually abused at a very young age are prone to this type of mental illness. I don't believe there is a cure, but medication can help maintain a more stable lifestyle.

Answer 4

The split personality, in my belief,..comes from when a person is so vulnerable as a child, that they have to develop another 'hard' personality, to deal with the abuse they are being dished out....So while they might truly be a sweet, humble, meek person, the part of them that has had to defend them, is often a calluoused, cruel, heartless person, who enjoys inflicing pain on others..I have my own theory on this..and this is based on knowing someone who truly is sick like this

Answer 5

when you have a split personality you are not aware of it, memory does not work, and you're unable to remember your other personality, you don't remember anything at all, you would like you missed days, weeks, months out of your life.

split personality sometimes happen when someone is abused as a child, so they just dissosiate so they won[t have to live wth the pain.

psychotherapy helps a lot with split personalities, the therapist tries to make the two personalities meet until they're back to one.

Answer 6

this is called schizopherenia (schizo means split) and can be related to significant psychosocial stressors in childhood or during adulthood, or by genetic family history, or by significant impairment to brain (via stroke, brain damage, or by side effects of medication). Treatment is wide range from medication to electroconvulsive treatment. Check out emedicine.com for more information

Answer 7

http://www.answers.com/topic/dissociative-identity-disorder

It lists several types of this disorder and also how and why it happens/works, symptoms and treatments.