What is it called when someone has multiple personalities, can remember them, but thinks of them as seperate entities from themselves and those multiple personalities interact with each other? Also can their actual personality be completely crazy, and one of their other personalities be rational and coherent? Please don't say "oh yeah... thats schizophrenia..." Please tell me what ACTUAL disorder that would be, and also if all that above is at all possible. Sources would help immensely!
-THANK YOU!
2007-09-12 14:32:42 · 4 answers · asked by andrea f 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
No, this is not trying to get a diagnosis for me. Most paranoid schizophrenics are very wary of technology (at least the ones I know). AND COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME IF ALL THOSE THINGS ABOVE WOULD BE POSSIBLE AND EXPLAINED IN ONE DISORDER??
2007-09-12 14:51:14 · update #1
I don't think this is even a disorder but the product of acting out a very fertile imagination. It sounds like someone who lives in a daydream world and has not yet identified him/her self as a distinct personality; they are still searching for them selves. Whether that is diagnosable as a mental illness or not depends a lot on the age of the individual and whether it interferes with normal functioning.
Schizophrenia is not, I repeat, is not, a split personality or a multiple personality.
2007-09-12 15:20:24 · answer #1 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're talking about is currently called dissociative identity disorder, which used to be referred to as multiple personality disorder. It is actually a completely different class of illness than schizophrenia. There are people who do not believe it is a real disorder, but it is in the DSM, which is the book used to diagnose people in the U.S.
2007-09-13 03:28:31 · answer #2 · answered by fiVe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds a bit like schizoaffective disorder.
Here's a good source for all things mental disorders:
http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Factsheets/
Only a doctor or psychiatrist can give you what any actual diagnosis you may have.
2007-09-12 21:48:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know someone who has word for word what you just explained and the only thing we have been told it is is schizophrenia so i haven't heard of another diagnoses for this and he has been going to doctors for over 25 years for it
2007-09-12 21:44:11 · answer #4 · answered by little78lucky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋