How can you get rid of a personality?

Question

I know this is gonna sound weird... even looney, but I've heard that a person with multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia, you can actually get rid of one of the dominate personalities. Say the one dominant personality is good "Jekyl", while the other "Hyde" is more self destructive. Even if this is stemmed from a traumatic experience in their early teens is it possible to get rid of it?

Answer 1

You are not getting rid of it, you're trying to assimilate all of the personalities into one! It's a huge difference :)
Hold on I just read the rest of your question, there is usually a dominant personality which takes care of the actual person. A protector of some sort. This personality is not necessarily more destructive, just a lot tougher than the 'original' person!

Answer 2

Multiple personality Disorder, is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder. And it almost ALWAYS is a result of early childhood sexual abuse that is recurring and violent in nature, and usually includes physical, and emotional abuse, and neglect.
The brain, in order to protect itself, and it's body, creates a new personality to absorb some of the trauma. It is interesting to know that a person can develop countless personalities, if the abuse continues for an extended period. And that each personality can be EXTREMELY different in characteristics including, race, sex, religion, even left-handedness, and right-handedness.
But, any how to your answer....
A person with mulitple personalities may be capable with much therapy to dissolve some of these personalities back into each other, and in some cases back down into the "core" personality. Usually the first step in this process would be for the personalities to become aware of each other. That alone is a tough task.
However the scenario you gave of Jekyll and hyde referrence is unlikely. The personalities traits may vary drastically, but not in the nature of good and evil, only to an extent of maturity level, meaning you can be a 42 year old woman and have one personality that is 2 years old.
Sometimes these personalities die, in which case they still existed, and never went away, they just died rather then reassimilated.

Answer 3

Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality are very different in that the person with Multiples has the ability to integrate those personalities into the person's core personality. In some senses , Multiple Personality is considered to be more of a rare skill in the ability to survive extreme trauma experienced at a very young age. The little child imagines these personalities to have powers and attitudes different than their own, each with an ability to repel the evil or trauma experienced that the core personality is far too scared to endure. This is why some of the personalities are so very different from the core one. As the core personality meets and gets to know the alter personality, after a while there becomes a sharing of the functions, of the memories, and of the skills.As they work toward joining, the "Hyde" feels less of a need to be defensive, and the Jekyl feels less of a need to fear Hyde. With time and therapy they both become more neutral, and in time there is the opportunity and object of therapy to join the two into a single one. The two or more join their knowledge and skills rounding out the person into a fuller and more stable individual. (This takes a number of years of therapy, depending on how many personalities the person has and how many years the child was exposed to the repeated trauma)

Schizophrenia, on the other hand, is what it is, and the person continues to suffer its effects throughout their lifetime. Symptoms may lessen for a while, but are cyclical, returning from time to time.

Answer 4

The don't exactly disappear when the person is cured. Healthy people also behave differently in different situations. To a degree, we all have multiple personalities. The difference is that when a person with multiple personality disorder switches from one identity to another, they have amnesia about what they experienced in the other personalities. In some cases, some of the personalities are aware of each other, but the main personality is not aware of them. It started as a splitting of consciousness to cope with childhood trauma. With therapy, it may be possible for the person to regain the memories of all the personalities, and become a more complete, spontaneous person.

Answer 5

i have multiple personality, well... we just accept each other in one body, since the other personality and my goal is to protecting myself.. now even with different thoughts etc we still cope with each other and decided that we are still me.. though sometimes my other personality can answer person and do some action like open the door while i don't have memory about it at all haha.. did creep me out, when my sister told me that i already awake and open the door and have interaction with her normally.. and that happen not just once._.
it's true that my MPD is from trauma in my childhood.. but either way i feel protected and happy that someone know the real me and can protect me, lol though it happen to be myself
we have different hobby, skills and laziness haha sometimes i thought that it is because i am lonely.. but that's not true either.. actually i kind of think that this is crazy.. so, that's my testimony, later guys

Answer 6

Yes it is possible , I would reccomend getting a book called "victim no more" by Jean Carlton, it has been out for a while so it should not cost much..

Answer 7

umm you can pray about it

merry CHRISTmas!