Multipul Personality's Over Rated?

Question

I can't spell what it's call but it's like Sicsofranieia. I was having some problem's with paying attention so my mom took me to the doctor. Because of depression and other thing's that run in my family they didn't go right to ADD or ADHD they asked me if i ever felt like i had multipul personality's or if i felt like i changed mood's alot ( Bi-Polar ). But really i mean i do have multipul personality's and so do you! There called emotion's........ What do you think about this?

And in case you where wondering they said i was partly ADHD but nothing serouis.

The doctor was the one that asked, not my mom.

Ok sorry wrong moving say sczofernia but that's one of the thing's that does run in my family too

Answer 1

Schizophrenia? lol totally different thing from Bi-polar...

umm it is sorta overrated though, I also do like to consider it emotions and your mood of the moment

Answer 2

QUOTE: "But really i mean i do have multipul personality's and so do you! There called emotion's........ What do you think about this?"

Answer: Well, yes and no.
Yes, we each do have emotions that express the multiple-facets of our personality.

And yes, in a person with true Multiple Personality Disorder, each personality can be characterized by a separate skill or emotion or memory ... or all 3. Before I ever knew a name for what I saw, I called it a "mood" problem, identifying the individual personalities by their "mood" trait.

And NO, most of us do not have Multiple Personalities. Our minds think as a whole unit.
An MPD's brain/awareness must completely leave one section (like the sections of an orange) and awaken in a different section inorder to access the emotion, skill or memories held in that section. Usually one section/mood is unaware of the others, holding only segments of memory --
That's where a person would be "missing time"

(Dissociative Identity Disorder is a catch-all for a wide variety of disorders. It's like saying there are fish in the fishbowl, without identifying goldfish from guppies. Multiple Personality is a very distinctively different manner of brain function.)

Answer 3

Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is exceedingly rare, rarer than rare. It's not over-rated, the label is over-popularized and the public rarely understands the illness but sure does liberally toss around the label. That's a statement on society, not you in particular.

If they were evaluating you for MPD, they would have been asking whether you loose periods of time. You're tests were all about Bipolar Disorder and asking about different personality traits was a different way to ask about mood swings. ADHD occasionally is childhood bipolar. So, testing you was a responsible move.

Btw:
Schizophrenia is about disorganized thinking, hallucinations, and delusions. Abnormal personality shifts aren't involved.

MPD is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Bipolar is one word, no hyphen.

Answer 4

First of all, Schizophrenia does not involve multiple personalities. The symptoms of schizophrenia include delusions, hallucinations, and a loss of your grip on reality. What you are referring to is Dissociative Identity Disorder, a disorder in which one person experiences more than one complete personality.

However, from your description, I would say you do NOT have Dissociative Identity Disorder. What you seem to have is an overactive mother. Everyone experiences different emotions that make them act differently; that's normally. Unless you are experiencing lapses of memory and occurrences in which others are totally confused of your behavior, you do not have Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Answer 5

I just wanted to respond to your statement/question.
The proper name for MPD is Dissociative Identity Disorder. Most clinicians from consider traumatic experiences to be the main cause of this disorder.

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