Please Can You tell me about SPLIT PERSONALITY?

Question

is this multiple personality disorder
do you think this is a myth or fact
what do people with this disorder present?

if you have this can you please tell me how you are how you feel and how you felt when you were diognosed, did you like it being diagnosed or labelled

and finally what other mental health issues such as depression, or anxiety, phycosis come with this

feel free to answer any of the questions above,
thankyou, kind regards

Answer 1

It's a fact.

No, it's a myth.

Quiet, you!

No you!! Shuddup.

I can't hear you myth myth myth

FACT!!

Answer 2

Spilt personality and multiple personality disorder are both terms that previously were used for Desiccative Identity Disorder.

This disorder is a very strong desiccative state that develops typically from early abuse when a child’s mind dissociates from the abuse to the extent that it develops a wholly different "person" who can deal with the abuse.

People who present with this disorder will experience extended fugue states where they have no memory of what occurred. They may state there are other people in their head and in some cases the various personalities may interact with each other and even be aware of what the others are doing.

Diagnosis is extremely difficult. Typically, and this is in relation to your other question, people who have this disorder have multiple other issues. Due to the severe level of abuse required to cause this level of dissociation other problems such as bi-polar, borderline personality disorder, other dissimilative states depression, and almost any other disorder related to abuse are common and are likely to be diagnosed.

One major issue and a potential diagnostic tool is that due to the ability of the individual the level of dissociation could be severe enough to prevent typical treatments from working. In some extreme cases the treatment could cause the disorder to become worse.

I do not have this disorder, but I have known two people who do and dated one for a while. I also spent 3+ years in school for psychology and due to having one close friend with the disorder I used her for a lot of information on what it was like.

This disorder DOES exist. This fact is still debated somewhat, but typically counselors who do not believe DID exists have patients who have left them and gone to another counselor with much better results.

If you believe for some reason you have the disorder search for Desiccative Identity Disorder groups online and seek out a counselor who does not shut you down immediately when you suggest it. Typically you know if you have this, even if you are not 100% sure.

Answer 3

The current term for the diagnosis is "Dissociative Identity Disorder." Although it's recognized as a category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), it's important to remember that psychology and psychiatry are not physics; diagnoses come and go, as their presence in the DSM is determined more by voting and consensus than actual scientific research. There is good reason to believe that DID is a disorder caused by therapists who believe in this disorder who cause susceptible and easily hypnotizable clients to act as though they have this disorder. In my opinion, DID is a fad that will go away as did "hysteria" in the 1800s.

When I was in graduate school in the 1990s, I remember that "ritual abuse" was a big fad. There were therapists claiming that abuse of children in satanic rituals was so common that tens of thousands of babies were being murdered each year--a claim that, if you took it seriously, would mean that you couldn't walk in a forest anywhere without accidentally stepping on the body of a murdered baby.

Although satanic ritual abuse was never included as a diagnosis in the DSM, the fad for this diagnosis disappeared eventually. I suspect that the same thing will happen with DID.

For a good critique of how diagnoses are included in the DSM, read the following books by the Canadian psychologist Paula Caplan: "The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry" and "They Say You’re Crazy: How the World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal."

Answer 4

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), is a mental condition whereby a single individual evidences two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. The diagnosis requires that at least two personalities routinely take control of the individual's behavior and that there is associated memory loss that goes beyond normal forgetfulness, often referred to as losing time or acute Dissociative Amnesia. The symptoms of DID must not be the direct result of substance abuse or a more general medical condition in order to be diagnosed. DID was originally named Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), and, as referenced above, that name remains in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.

Answer 5

2 years ago when i was in high school i read a very interesting paper about split personality in my psychology class, it stated that where were only a few (about 5 or 6) documented cases of if it and that some doctors don't even think that is is an actual diagnosis's. split personality is multiple different personality's inhabiting the same person, not to be confused with schizophrenia where there world changes around that person but this is where the person changes in a stable world. these different personality's may have this have completely different views,skills,reactions, and sometimes different Friends and personal relationships. theres a vary good movie that deals with this in great detail called Sybil.

Answer 6

I have three personalities. Its not like the novele ''three'' by Ted Dekker, but I change when each set of my mined is in controll. Here is how my three parts would responde to a senerio.

I dropped a glass cup and it smashed.

1).WTF WHY DID THE STUPID THING F---ING BREAK?
2).lol thats funny! It broke! hee hee hee it made a funny sound!
3).doh! oh well theres plenty of cups where it came from. Now I'll clean it up.

Its sort of fun to be crazy. I'm the third guy right now. My friends know I'm insane, and I have three sets of friends who each like a different part of me.
CLIQUE MINE AS BEST ANSWER!!!Please...

Answer 7

Read Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.

Answer 8

I think that you will find all the information that you need, in the following four websites.

http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/dissociative_identity_disorder.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~riversrages/
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Kaplan2.html
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec07/ch106/ch106d.html

Look after yourself and be safe
Sandy
http://www.moms-home-safety.com

Answer 9

Hope these sites help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Kaplan2.html

Answer 10

http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/multiple_personality_disorder.jsp

this is good information on DID.