What do you think about multi personality disorder?

Question

What causes it and if it can be treated. Do you believe that it is spiritual disturbances or just mental illness. Do you think people may easily fake it to get some personal advantages, and if they do, is there a way to tell they are lying. Is there any record patients are healed but not treated by a psychiatrist, and how.

Thanks for all the answers. I would like to add that personal advantages are example like a murderer defending himself over his crime with MPD.
Also, do you think most people with mpd are shy to talk about it, or, brave and happy to talk about it.

Answer 1

I have worked in the field for over 10 years and the majority of people with this disorder want the treatment since their emotions are so deregulated and there is a huge lack of control.
The disorder stems from enduring repeated trauma and the brain assuming a new identity to defend itself and survive. No, it is not easy to fake this illness like they do on TV. There are very sound clinical indications that that are helpful with a diagnosis and it is not just based on the behavior that is presented. A patient is never healed the "other personalities" are always there unless they go through very grueling therapy,which most opt not to. They all learn to live together. Hope this helps

Answer 2

It's called Dissociative Identity Disorder now, and it falls under the dx class called Dissociation which includes some lesser forms that don't include split personality. Talk therapy is the only know treatment that works, although meds may be prescribed for other issues like anxiety. There also are some trials on a newer anticonvulsant, but I don't think there's much efficacy being found. This illness is not at all easy to fake, at least not to anyone who knows much about it. Yes, there are ways to tell someone is lying. The most obvious is that MPD/DID happens in childhood usually due to severe abuse. If a person hasn't had symptoms all their life, it's very unlikely they have it. I don't know of anyone 'healed' without psychiatric aide, and would be surprised if that were the case. Last, the only spirits involved are those that may have been drunk by the sick **** who did the abuse.

Answer 3

The best way to explain MPD is a battle within one's self.

It's like having the angel and devil on one's shoulder battling out which to do.

MPD is not the easiest illness to fake due to the fact that each personallity is normally TOTALLY differnet than the others.

Most patience with MPD are unaware of the "switches" but after coming back to their everyday self can sense a change.

Medicine's can work but not as well as one could hope for.

The best and probably ONLY way to tell if someone is lying is by listening - meaning if Personality 1 is telling you something and Personality 2 comes out - bring up something personality 1 said and see how they react and if they start telling you about things 1 did or said - that is your first clue they could be faking. However if they are unaware or bewildered then start bringing up conversation pieces which were said. Play both sides - you will feel a little crazy yourself but if you truly want to know - it may be the only way - but be careful.

Good Luck

Answer 4

Multiple Personality Disorder 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. The first treatment usually used is psychotherapy, to try to help the person integrate the personalities more. After that medications, hypnotherapy, and adjunctive therapies are also used. In fact, if treatment is started and completed, MPD/DID may have the best prognosis of any disorder.

Answer 5

I had a friend with Multiple Personality Disorder. She was also severely overweight and suicidal, and wouldn't let anyone ask her about her father or meet her father. We had some ideas. I think she was severely affected by him abusing her in some way, so that she had to create an other self to handle her life.

In my opinion, MPD sounds like an escape route much better than choosing suicide. But at the same time, part of it is in the brain, because it affects the memory.

Someone with MPD will usually not know they have it on one of their personalities, and only know that they "Can't remember" things well. Sometimes there are days on end they won't remember, but if they switch to another personality, they will remember it. There is an obstruction in the memory somewhere, giving each persona a different life, outlook, and memory. I am not sure why this is, but I would love to find out..... If only I could afford Psychology College.

Answer 6

From what I know about MPD, it`s caused by severe trauma / abuse in early childhood. As far as I know it can possibly be helped by EMDR (look it up, there`s lots of info online). I`m not sure it`s curable; possibly it`s dependant on the severity of the condition an how long a person`s had it for. Like every other mental health problem, diagnosis and treatment more than likely come too late, when a sufferer is in crisis (ie,either their own or someone elses life is in imminent danger due to their mental illness).

Answer 7

MPD or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), as it is now referred to as, is the result of extreme childhood trauma. Alternate personalities are used as a coping mechanism so that the child can escape the trauma. This mental disorder can have integrated or non-integrated personalities - and even a combination of both. Long-term therapy and medication can help the patient cope with the disorder. A trained psychiatrist or psychologist can easily determine if a patient is faking it.

Answer 8

One of my friends in highschool had multiple personality disorder. It started when she was very young, and her father molested her. I believe that it is a mental illness, and in most cases, starts out with a trauma that the person feels they cannot handle. A new personality comes in that can handle the trauma.
I think that if someone wanted to fake it, they probably could. I don't know that it would bring them any advantages though, maybe just attention, and that would be pretty low.
Honestly, I can't think of any way you could tell if the person was lying, if they had perfected their act. I don't know 100% if my friend was making it all up, but I do know that she had four distinct styles of handwriting that would show up, one for each personality, and I know that she was in therapy to try to combine the personalities or at least lower the count.
I'm not sure how you would go about treating the disorder. I know that her psychiatrist needed two years of bringing out and talking to each of the personalities in order to start to get rid of them.

Answer 9

I'm not entirely sure about this one. Family and close friends have told me that they've seen me and talked to me and I've not recognised them at all and have told them I'm Natasha and not who they thought I was. They have no reason to lie to me, I (the "real" me) don't know anything about it, all I know is it can be hours or even the next day from what I last remember and I'm often in a different place to where I was as well. I wore a pedometer for a while and my CPN and I have determined that I've walked to where I was. There's a suggestion of MPD in my case, but it's early days in finding this out. I've also had people who I've never met coming up to me and calling me Natasha.

Answer 10

I don't know that I can address every aspect to your question.

When a child is young and is faced with abuse, trauma, or sexual abuse, there is a desire to "not be there" and not experience the terrible things. Only a very few children have the ability to produce an alter personality to "take the trauma" away from the core person, holding the memory away from the core.

Personally I have known 3 persons with Multiple Personalities.
Each one I knew without prior knowledge of their condition.
I will name what I witnessed, before I had a name to give it.

This is not something that can be "faked" it is too complicated. Believe me, there are no "personal advantages" coming from such a condition. If anything life is much too complicated for a multiple, too intense, too disorganized with all the memory and time loss.

Person #1 - I observed that she was timid, fearful, and had difficulty functioning in life, my knowledge of her alternate personality came through the complaints of her husband - searching the bars for his "wild woman", loud and crude.

Person #2 - I observed and took repeatedly to family Dr. for odd symptoms that appeared to be more situational than from a medical source. She exhibited various "moods" that other kids identified and recalled her for years later. There were extremes observed in her behavior, unlike the other kids. She was missing time. Had a selective memory. Spoke with a variety of facial expressions and voice variations.
I lived for 15years in the same house as her, before a diagnosis was made. I just didn't have a name for it, and didn't know what to do about it. Once faced with her diagnosis, I recognized having dealt with the personalities some 11 years before.

Person #3 - I observed and dealt with continuing issues of memory loss, and hours he was unable to account for, getting lost in an area he was very familiar with, alternating between 7 or 8 different "moods", none knew of what he had said or done when in a different "mood" The problem was so extreme, he was unemployable, living out his late 20's as a "3 yr old". In some of his moods he did not know my name or who I was. Each of the moods had its own level of violence.
Independant of his "moods" I also witnessed the most intense moments I've ever experienced. Demon posession, speaking with intensity of evil, threatening death, with an altered appearance and voices and opinions - with extreme fear of Christ.

My observations over the years yave convinced me of the existance of Multiple Personality, segmenting the knowledge and memory of a single person. Having also observed the intensely evil spirit disturbance, I will say that it was beyond anything possible by an ordinary human being.

The effective treatment girl #2 received was with the assistance of an experienced Psychologist, specializing in Dissociative Disorders and Multiple Personality. The process was to introduce each personality to the others, to share knowledge and memories, making them common to all, to promote trust between the alters and the core person, and to defer decisions to the core person. (not the opinionated alters) With trust and co-knowledge the alters would eventually work toward joining, and then joining into the core person.