Can you explain the term multi personal disorder?

Answer 1

Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder is a mental disorder that is defined by the existance of two or more distinct personalities within the same person and all personalities exist independent of one another. People with this disorder have personalities that are aware of the others or some existing, some have no idea that there are other personalities, and some personalities interact with the others. This disorder is often marked my amnesiac states where laps in consciousness occur. That is pretty much the jist of it.

Answer 2

Multiple Personality Disorder ( MPD ), is very much real.
To explain the function I would consider and compare an orange and a watermelon.
-- The watermelon is the average person, able to access other other areas in a smooth and even transition from one point to any other point within. There is "shared knowledge" available from any point.
-- The orange is the person with MPD, segmented. Yes each sealed section is a part of the same fruit, but you must exit one inorder to enter the other areas. The knowledge of one part is not shared and accessable to the other parts.
-- Each segment / alternate personality holds its own memories of time and events. Often the core person is "missing time" from their memory that is held by the "alter"
Within that alter segment is usually one of the person's skills or jobs. One may do the math, another took the piano lessons, one may be the one who handles illness, another may be the funny and silly portion, childlike. What we have come to realize is that each alter personality also holds negative memories, usually of horror-trauma-sex-abuse-torture-intense fear or hatred.
-- Each alter formed when the person was a small child (under about 10 yrs of age) I met one that formed when the little girl's face was shoved into an ant-hill. Another held memories of sexual molestation. Yet another of Satanic rituals and abuse, another might be a house fire......
When this little child (of a very high IQ ) is faced with a situation too strong in horror or trauma for them to handle without "going crazy" Their brain forms a new identity or alter to "hold that memory" and to "handle it for her". This new alter is there to "protect" the core person from the trauma.
-- Once formed, the core person will always hold that alter and the alter will hold the memory of that segment of time. If the trauma category is repeated, the same alter will become more developed and be "out" on behalf of the core person to protect them from knowing about the harm.

-- This MPD / also known as DID Dissociative Identity Disorder, can be "cured" through lengthy therapy and a lot of hard work. The core person can get to know all the other parts. And the other alters can get to know the core person, who is always "out" and "in charge" as therapy progresses.
Given the types of memories the core person learns of, the therapy is neither pleasant nor emotionally easy. Because the person never reacted to the traumas at the time they happened, they will react in therapy.

Answer 3

Usually, multiple personality disorder begins when a person goes through a particularly traumatic or stressful event or time period. To deal with the events without them affecting every aspect of the person's life, the brain sections off parts of itself. Multiple personalities form as a defense mechanism. The memories of the trauma or stress may be retained by just one personality, so that the other(s) may live more peacefully.

Answer 4

See Dissociative Identity Disorder, at http://www.ezy-build.net. (.net.nz/~shaneris) on page 17, for a comprehensive explanation, by a qualified therapist.

Answer 5

Are you talking about multiple personality disorder?

Answer 6

I means that you have more than one personality disorder.