Multiple Personality Disorder
Biology 103
2002 First Paper
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Multiple Personality Disorder
Diana La Femina
When you were growing up, did you have an imaginary friend? Did Mom and Dad have to set a place for Timmy at the table and serve him invisible food, or did all your aunts and uncles have to pet your imaginary puppy when the came over to the house? That's just pretend, though, kids having fun. So is a child pretending that they are someone else, forcing their parents to call them Spike, convinced they have a Harley even though they're only five. But what if this were an adult, someone who should "know better" convinced that they are someone else. If this were to happen, society would label them as crazy or delusional. Or, maybe, this adult suffers from a Multiple Personality Disorder.
Multiple Personality Disorder (or MPD) is a psychological disorder where a person possesses more than one developed personality. These personalities have their own way of thinking, feeling, and acting that may be completely different from what another personality is like (1). To be diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, at least two of the multiple personalities must dominate over the others on a slightly frequent basis (2). This results in an abrupt change in the way a person acts. Basically, they become another person in either an extreme or complete way (3).
MPD was first recognized in the late nineteenth century by Pierre Janet, a French physician. The disorder was later brought more to public awareness by The Three Faces of Eve (1957), a movie based on the true story of a pristine housewife who was diagnosed with MPD when she couldn't explain why she would suddenly become a very sexual person and not remember it. The eighties and the nineties brought on what was seen as an over diagnosis of MPD (1).
MPD is known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) in the psychiatric world (1). The reason for this change of label is that the term "multiple personalities" can be misleading (4). A person with MPD/DID is one person with separate parts autonomously comprising their mind . They are NOT many people sharing one body (5). Although it seems as though these "personalities" seem to be very different, it is important to understand that they are separate parts of the SAME person (4). It is not correct to say that someone with MPD/DID has "split personalities" as this denotes schizophrenia. A person with schizophrenia does not have connected thoughts and feelings, they are "split" (1). A person with dissociation, however, has memories, actions, identities, etc., that are unconnected. Different thoughts and feelings may be connected, but different thoughts and different memories may be connected to some and not the others. Everyone experiences this once in a while. Daydreaming, getting lost in a book or a movie, zoning out, etc. These are all moments of dissociation (4). Just because someone has MPD/DID does not mean they can not function in everyday life (2). Indeed, they usually have this disorder so that they CAN function.
There have been as many as 20 personalities [perhaps even 37] that have been reported (3). About 1% of the population has some form of MPD/DID. In fact, of patients in psychiatric hospitals, possibly up to 20% have MPD/DID but are misdiagnosed. With these statistics, MPD/DID can be put into the same category as anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia as one of the major mental health problems at present (4).
Although the causes of MPD/DID are not completely understood it seems as if childhood neglect and abuse of some sort are the major causes (4). The abuse usually occurs early in life, before the age of nine, and is commonly repeated and prolonged (2). Due to this abuse, children may detach parts mind and create new personalities to separate themselves from their pain (3). After long term abuse, these new "personalities," this dissociation, may become second nature. These children may use this technique to separate themselves whenever they feel anxious or threatened. Due to it's ability to keep a sane, functioning part of a persons mind in tact when all else seems hopeless MPD/DID can be seen as a very effective escape technique (4). It is a very healthy, sane, and safe way for these people to survive an unhealthy situation (2).
MPD/DID can be treated. The first treatment usually used is psychotherapy, to try to help the person integrate the personalities more (1). After that medications, hypnotherapy, and adjunctive therapies are also used. In fact, if treatment is started and completed, MPD/DID may have the best prognosis of any disorder (6).
Everyone has different facets to their own personalities. Without this fact we would not be the complex beings that we are. A person with MPD/DID, however, may have very distinct facets that work independently of one another, sometimes not even knowing that the others exist. These various facets work together to keep the person whole. MPD/DID is a highly evolved psychological survival technique that is not to be looked down upon. Without it, the people who "suffer" from it may not be able to function in everyday life as well as they do, if at all.
References
1)Infoplease Education Network, an interesting educational network with many resources
2)MPD/DID information site, Site put together by a lady with MPD/DID
3)Medical Index, interesting site with a great amount of information on many medical conditions
4)MPD/DID resource page, site with a lot of information on MPD/DID
5)The International Society for the Study of Dissociation, another site with a lot of information on MPD/DID
6)Sidran Institute of Traumatic Stress Education & Advocacy, site with abundant information and resources to traumatic disorders and treatment
Comments made prior to 2007
I am a 29 year old woman. I am bi-polar Manic Depressive. I have 2 personalities that i know so far. on the night of 19 of May, I encountered a personality that is know as "Unknown". It was out for a breif 10 minutes, but after it had come out i had 3 scratches on my left wrist. They started out what looked like welts and turned into scratch marks. i don't understand left completly confused and mentally scared ... Jennifer Mills, 23 May 2007
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Do all altrers have different names?
I have reason to believe that someone I became intimate with may have multiple personalities, but I'm not sure. Every week or two, there's a significant change in her behavior & she turns into someone who has nothing but hatred for me over things that none of my friends consider to be something to be upset about in the first place. This woman is an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse & has been in abusive relationships all her life. I'm the first person she's ever been around that is NOT abusive. I thought we became very close & she began to display strong feelings for me & even express them. She's been saying that my feelings for her are much stronger than hers are for me, but she's always been the one to say the sweet nothings & loving things first to me. Her own 7 year old child made it a point to tell her he can see she wants to kiss me & the child distinguished between romantic & platonic when she protested telling him we're just friends (which wasn't quite true. we've been more than friends since we started) He actually insisted to her saying "NO.You want to KISS her" (yes I'm a lesbian) I've always waited for her to say things first so as not to scare her too much. Too much emotion & anything intense seems to put her into a complete tailspin.
I think I witnessed a personality change just recently & unfortunately, the personality that hates me is the one in charge right now & she told me never to contact her again & has (again) blocked me on Facebook. She has been going back & forth, running to me & then away from me for a year now & most recently said she wants nothing to do with me on any level. She has no memory of certain places we've gone together, restaurants we've been to, & other things that she does. What I'm trying to find out is, do all the alternates always have different names? Or can they be different aspects of the same person & all of them have that person's name? She seems to display many if not all the symptoms & I don't know if she knows she has a problem or not. But I genuinely care for her - or at least the part of her that doesn't hate me. I'd at least like to remain friends with her if possible & I'm trying to understand how this all works. How does these poor people even have relationships?
I want to help as much as I can...
Hello, I'm 21 years old, and my ex-boyfriend has Dissociative Identity Disorder. I know this for a fact because I've spoken to a few of the personalities. Just recently, I broke up with him, and one of the personalities that called himself 'Death' broke through and said that he's destroyed all the other ones, including the one who was the 'host', the man I originally started dating, and the others that I have met. I don't honestly know what I can do to help. I don't live near him (he lives in Georgia, I live in Virginia), and I want to believe that he's still 'fighting' 'Death' and all, but I just feel horrible. I feel as if this is all my fault, and I wish there was some way I could help him. I know he needs help, but he'll refuse it, saying 'I'm sticking my nose in his business and I should get out now before I get hurt'. I just...what should I do?
how to help my bff...
Hi, I'm 17 and I have a friend whos like mu brother and says to have DID. Hes "people" sometime come out and talk to me but somehow I dont believe he has DID and well I jusr feel bad. Well furthermore he sufferd alot before, he was sexually abuse amd mentally also, and I want to help him if after all he does happen to have this, but I dont even know were to start. Help??????
i'm sure i have DID/MPD
i'm not good with talking but anyhow i think i have this DID/MPD or something like it. i have personalities in me, and at times they can just come out and it's like if im in a dream, i can still feel but i can't really do anything, and i have most control over everything but i can hear talk to them and we don't agree that much at all. it's like living with people for a long time. they think differently about people, sometimes i want to do something and they will say bad idea sometimes they will push me to do something bad and i'll tell them bad idea. they main thing is we are different. i haven't had too much trouble in life with this. life seems a bit better with this but harder at time. but there is a violent side that gets a bit more powerful each time i get hurt so i want to find out more about all of this. so any information would be helpful to us and to know if we have this DID/MPD. there is me Justin, Alex, Alan, and Sam. which i just found out Sam's name not to long ago he told someone his name, funny thing is he doesn't trust me and we can keep secrets and hide things and when i pass out at times they can take control and i won't be able to remember.
My friend has it.
My close friend and neighbor Katherine has it. One time, I saw my friend named Sage. I was eating lunch with Katherine at school, and started to yell his name over and over again. Katherine told me to stop yelling that name. She wouldn't say why, so I assumed it was silly and kept screaming for Sage. A few seconds later, Katherine gets a scowl on her face. She starts being really mean to everybody and pushes my friend Nina down the stairs. After school Katherine told me she has "people" inside her. She has a LOT of personalities, I've seen everything from Love to Inappropriate. She has one named Fantasy, and another named Friendship (or known as Megan). A bunch of them don't have official names. What's weird about this disorder is that when I ask her questions about where she goes, she can't explain it. She says shes inside her mind, and she hears what goes on and everything. Another odd thing is when I question what a personality is doing, she can respond. She'll say one named Stefy (little kid personality) is sleeping, or that Fantasy is playing pacman. (LOL) . I really hope she goes on meds because she does some really unexplainable stuff. I will find out more about DID/MPD for her . c:
i forgot another one
If I may add, just recently, I started seeing things that are not there but most of the time are only shadows. I think I'm hallucinating? One example is that when I look at one place I'll see a candy wrap or any object, but the next time I blink or look away for a second, it's not there. But what I'm worried about are the shadows. From the corner of the eyes I will see humans but only a shadow or a black blur. These kinds of things never happened with me before. Then I also converse with myself. Most it will just be a question with a yes or no answer. comments like indeed, yes, of course, pathetic, disgusting are often uttered and said.
red flags
I become interested in this thing because i want to know if I'm just depressed, have little self confidence or has a DID. I read in this article () something about red flags. I do remember on red flag though. My mother and I were looking at the mirror of a public restroom along with my cousin and her friend , freshening up. I don't know why but I just snapped at my mother for no reason. She said something about freshening up our faces but with no ill intent. I don't know I just snapped out and told her that "I am not like them. I don't have the habit of fixing my face" or something similar to that. I was shocked at deep inside I only felt, What the fuck happened? Like why did I said that? I became irritated for no reason.
There was also this time (it happened two times) where my mother gave me money and told me to keep it. The next day she asked about it I can't remember her giving it to me. This happened for two consecutive days.
Then, there are times when I feel like homicidal I want people to be killed. For example, I really hate our physics teacher and every time she's teaching, I always imagined that there will be a scythe coming out of nowhere beheading her. Then there was also this teacher again who kind of gave a joke (but to me I felt really insulted) and from them on, I never greeted him and I also imagined bad things happening to him.
I also get irritated most of the time especially at home, with anyone of my family. I don't dream like most people do. I have this sudden feeling of adrenaline rush, like I want to run or shout but I refrain myself from doing it. I also hate when people touch me. I'm not comfortable with physical touch especially hugs. I don't like talking to people and for one whole year, I started declining most invitations people give me like with debut parties or just a message from a friend asking me to come over. I know that I am quiet and prefer to be by myself but not this much. I always give time to my friends especially my bestfriends, but now, I don't like going out of our house and I just dont feel like seeing anyone. I don't got outside and I hate the people outside ( I have two neighbors who badmouths my mother and I really want them dead.)
Maybe it's because of my family? My mother is committing adultery for more than 8 years now, and my father knows but he doesn't know who. My father too is going to clubs and doing "it" with different girls. I'm the only one who knows what are the thoughts of both sides, since my father and my mother tells their problem with each other to me.So I am in a tight position right now. But I'm close to my mother, so I understand her and protect her. I hate my father but sometimes I pity him. My mood swings is also an issue. There is a moment when I angry, then depressed, then a little bit happy then just blank. People also say that I don't have emotions or just blank. And I don't want to change that. The better that they are having a hard time trying to figure me out the better I feel good about myself hiding my true feelings, I'm sadistic like that. I hate crowds. I have 3 bestfriends that I'm very proud of because they are probab;y the only ones that can take my tactlessness and understand me, if not forgive me and just say I'm weird. I don't trust people and have the tendency to push them away.
LAst one, some of the things I do, say and think are most of the contradictory to each other. I can't focus one one thing that long nowadays.
My personality now is exactly the opposite of what I am when I was a child.
Can someone please tell me what's going on. I'm terribly confused.
Do you think I have MPD?
I'm thirteen years old and a female.When I was five years old, I didn't have anyone to play with.Noone would talk to me or even look at me.Surprisingly,I wasn't even close to being depressed.Actually, becouse of noone hanging out with me, I created this imaginary friend that I told stories to at P.E. and slept with at naptime.A year later,this new girl named Alexis came to school.During P.E. I was in the middle of telling my imaginary friend a story about this beautiful bridge that I made up when she came up to me and asked me if I would be her friend becouse noone else would.I didn't even stop and think about finishing the story with my imaginary friend,instead I agreed and we went off playing.The thing was,as soon as I got home I started to talk to my imaginary friend again.I never stopped talking to her over the years but I never told Alexis about it.Even now,I do it more at this age,I continue to talk to my imaginary friend.I even created more.The thing is,when I'm around my imaginary friends I can act happy and share my darkest secrets with them.I feel like they are the only ones that understand me.I act really shy at school,with my imaginary friends I act like myself,but sometimes I'll act really mean out of nowhere to my real friends or I'll act really nice to them and not know why.Is that the result of my imaginary friend back in kindergarden?Do I have MPD?I'm really confused.My parents say that I have MPD but I'm not sure.Can someone please help?
disorder
i want to know if i have this disorder?
About a year ago me and this kid were having a rock fight. Eventually one of the rocks hit me right in the head. i thought i blacked out. (or im pretty sure i did) i woke up in a different spot laughing with my blood all over my hands. I stopped laughing and just tried to calm down as much i as can. Later when me and my friend was reporting this to the police he told a different story than i did. He said after i got hit in the head i stood there and started laughing, then chased after the guy that did it. but i dont recall doing that at all. I can almost never make decisions even if its simple. I dont know, i cant talk to my parents about this, i cant afford to go to a councilor, so i talked to one of my friends. She never told anyone, but she said that i was being to paranoid and that i never saw you as a different person and stuff. i dont know.. am i being to paranoid??
Do I have MPD ??
Just recently I have decided to reserch the possibility that I may have MPD.
My life has been a challenge for as long as I can remember, When I was about 2 or 3 I remember bits and pieces of a event. There was this old man sitting in a chair on his porch I believe he was the neighbor. He kept asking me to come into his yard and offered me a flower. the next thing I remember was being back in my yard crying and in some sort of pain but due to my age I was unable to express what had happened. I really don't remember what happened. I was raised ina family with severe abuse. My father would drink and stay away for days on end then when he would return home he would pull my mother from bed bet her rape her and then throw her outside. She would wait till he passed out and then have me let her in to sleep under my bed. This wen on for years. I would hear his car and would hold my breath to afraid that if I made a noise he would know I was awake. My mother was unstable as well she didn't care much for me she would always accuse me of being dirty and was very physicaly abusive among other things, I can remember sleep walking and waking up outside with my dog that I loved very much his name wasSPOT.I would stay with him until morning or until I could get backinto the house. One day I came home and he was gone. My mother had taken him the the pound she said I had done sexual things with him I felt like I could just die. Well this story goes on and on as yyou can imagine. Fast forward I had a daughter at the age of 16 and had a hard time bonding I know I love her so much but I was a very bad mother. Now she is grown and has three children of her own. She is a wonderful mother thank god. I am now 53 and have been having flashbacks of my childhood, I feel angry, depressed, I bing eat, I find bruses on my body and have no idea how the got there have isolated myself have no friends, feel empty,The other day I had a argument with a neighbor when I totaly lost control and starting yelling and calling her a fucking bitch among other things language I never use. I have also been hateful with my mother and try to hurt her with words. But then the next ime I see her I feel love. I'm so confused right now my life is in tatters. The only relationship I have is with my 4 dogs. I do work but I feel like a different person when i'm there. A little ocd. Anyway I am going to seek help but I would like a educated opinion. I have attemped to kill myself on one occation as well
Response
You may! But Im not sure. MPD is usually caused by chilhood trauma. But DO NOT KILL YOURSELF. seek medical, help, and PRAY. PRAY PRAY PRRRRAAAAAYYYY pray to God!!
help with my gf
ok so i have a girlfriend who i love very dearly but she seems to have some sort of problem. On occasion her other side will come out and this scares me to death because this other side sometimes hurts her (cutting, hitting) and wants to hurt me. My gf is aware of this other side of her and she knows what happenes but cannot stop this from happening no matter how hard she fights this other side from coming out. Does anyone know how i could possibly help her with these problems, if someone does knows please respond so i can help her cope with this.
response to help with gf
I myself have the same kind of problem with my girlfriend. She will lash out on me and act all violent trying to hurt me and/or herself and after she doesn't remember a thing and is often scared of me since when trying to defend myself i sometimes accidently hurt her. I personally asked my gf about this "Ariel" as she goes by. the info she could give me was very useful to understand the situation. try that, learning anything you can may help. Chances are she went through some horrible event(s) that caused this. Just be understanding and caring.
"joint-dream"
I'm a sixteen year old girl who has been tortured for a long period of time until this year. Ive been having these dreams where i keep going back to them. One of the people in it was a guy and after that hes been in my head talking to me. Helping me. He really isnt bad and he hasnt done anything to me like Screamergirl he takes control of me sometimes but only when its acceptable and i need him. I feel like there's two of me, not like there's someone in my head. "Joint-dream" is the right word for what i feel as well. He writes on his own and everything. Is there something wrong?
hey i think you should really
hey i think you should really look into dreams because it seems as tho your dreams or alter is trying to signal to you that you need to understand and deal with your feelings . dreams are very meaningful and shows the unconscious mind . i personally dont think theres anything wrong with you its just the dreams are bringing to light your feelings about whats going on in your life . so please take time and look into everythin thats going on and try to come to terms and own your feelings .
Hey
I think thats God.. but it could be MPD.. but you should really tell someone. Good luck!
Actually i am a relgious
Actually i am a relgious person and i can totally believe that, but im not sure
Healthy multiplicity shows
Healthy multiplicity shows that being multiple is not a disorder, is just a way of being.
Hmmm...
After reading this script, and the explaination of MPD/DID, it seems more and more that I have this, and undiagnosed. I'm unaware, or not sure if it really is the case of me having this, or if it's just me thinking I do.
For example, I could be watching a movie and 'zone out' and go into what they call a trance state of mind, which would be 'clearing the mind', anyway, I would be watching the movie until I hit a 'zoning' point, and I would then be 'aware', usually two hours after the movie, which then I would be lost and confused. As I just became 'myself' again, (this is hard to explain) I would then act like I haven't seen it and be very convinced of this. Until roughly a few days later where the movie would play out in my head, but to 'me'.
I don't know what caused this, I used to be a happy guy, and quite socialable. I used to go out and 'hang' with my friends, I was rarely home. Now, I'm the complete opposite. I have developed what's called Agoraphobia (fear of crowds) and Aphaphosmphobia (fear of being touched by another person). I'm now anti-social and quite depressive. I am currently dealing anger issues, where one minute I would be calm and peaceful, and the next, I would just lash out my anger at someone. The thing is, it's never anyone at work, or at the few friends I have now. Just at my mother and my younger brother.
Don't get me wrong, they are my family, and I would not let harm come to them, but at times, I just have thoughts and feelings of violence and rage towards them. When I my brother and I are watching tv, I don't mind him being there. Yet, it would be the next day or another, where I would yell at him, spit insults towards him, I would even think about violence to him, and it would be brutal. The same goes for my mother. I know she drinks because she hasn't gotten over her own mothers death, but that isn't an excuse to me. It's just aggrovating and pitiful.
I can't even walk down the city's shopping centre without looking at everyone and pitying them. I look upon them like they have empty faces and they don't deserve what they have. Even when I meet new people, (which I have to due to work) I cannot help but think sympathy and shame at them. It varies with each person. Not only that, I twitch at them when I have to shake their hand in greeting, and it's a vile twitch where I would nearly vomit.
I really don't understand why I am like this, I always got on with people, I always had something to say, and I always made new friends every week. Okay, I understand that I did have a really bad experience in my life, or a few, but everyone has, and they are fine. Given there are those who do not cope, or pretend to.
I have even had other.. Experiences. Like I'm in the library choosing a book to read, whether I've read it or not, it's a book. Anyway, I don't read anything but Fantasy, as it's just an 'escape' from the worries, whether a few hours or minutes, and I would 'zone out' again and realise once I've left the Library, I'm in possession of some Crime/Thriller and Non-Fictional books. I don't read them, and I never will. I took them back immediately, and had to make up an excuse to hand them back within ten minutes of renting them.
And again, I would be having a conversation with my best friend, whom knows about my 'differences' as she has experienced them. When I'm talking to her, it's usually over random things, like anime or movies, even music. We like to criticise and compare reviews of them, and during the conversation, I would 'switch' and we would end up debating the religious ideaology and hypothesis as well as mythological and philosphy. Don't get me wrong, theose topics are an interest to me, but reading and hearing what I said to my friend isn't like me. I'm not that intelligent.
I agree, I'm smarter than most, but not that smart. The way I was discussing the topic, according to my friend, was like I had studied it for fifty years. That I was a professional in the subject. That's more than double my age!
Another thing that concerns me, Is that I'm also seeing things and hearing things that aren't there. The things I see are more like memories than visions or hallucinations. Like I would remember standing in the middle of an empty battlefield full of corpses, or stood ina tower as I watched the city move. I've recently been seeing horses on fire, wearing clad armor with riders bearing white robes in armor and scythes. I've also has this 'guardian' who looks like Alice in Wonderland, but with leather boots that are knee high, and covered in weapons. Whats weird to me is that this guardian has wings.
I don't know what it is, or what's going on in my head. I just want to know if I have MPD/DID, or I'm just thinking I do? Please let me know your thoughts.
Wants to know...
Ok so I am 18 years old and I dated this guy for 4 months and then we broke up... But since then I have been getting depressed one minute and then Happy the next. There have been times where I did cut myself in order to feel something else, also I have been getting paranoid and "Blacking out" at random moments. Also At times I pretend to be someone else (like a character in a book,movie or Anime character). Before I dated this guy, these never happened to me till now.... Is it Truama or is this some type of mental disorder?
please help me i cant stop
please help me i cant stop acting like other people like from tv or movies say like if one of the people i like is a alcholic i would try and be a alcholic im 16 and i was raped at 9 and it carryed on for a year and i have no control over it please someone help should i go to a doctor about it or what ... :(
Its ok i think your just
Its ok i think your just traumitized over what happened. You could have MPD and you should really talk to your doctor and get a good opinion. Im praying for you!
Muse to MPD?
Hi! I'm a sixteen year old girl who underwent sexual trauma at around this time last year. Since then I've had a "voice" that speaks with me in my head, but he's not like other alters I've heard of. For the longest time Starscream from the Transformers series has been my muse, a being of inspiration and usually who I think of when I need to create a character or a story. After having my trauma (my Starscream toy was present with me at the time) he started popping up and "thinking" on his own. (Unlike the one from the show he's much, -much- kinder.) Recently we've both been researching MPD and haven't found any of this form, we're able to communicate with each other through our thoughts and I've convinced him to start keeping a journal, he also refuses to take control of me unless it's absolutely necessary, another strange thing we've realized is that we "joint-dream" where we're both present in our own separate forms inside the dream. He can also sometimes take partial control, like using my hands to write physical notes to me or making myself have faster reflexes than normal, or even typing since I've agreed to help him make his own Facebook so he can socialize with others. Is this completely unheard of? I've not bothered to tell my parents since he's more of a help than a problem and I don't want them to take me to get rid of him.
Don't worry
No, it's not unheard of; you actually remind me of my friend, Katy, who acted in a very similar fashion. She would actually have moments were she would "talk to herself" by thought. She's usually spontaneous and very social with other people, but her other half, Kat, was rude and shied away from others. Kat would always be there to guide Katy whenever she got scared or needed help. They also had the agreement that Kat would never take full control unless the situation demanded it; partial control was done often. She's been this way since she was nine[ish]. She looks "normal" to the everyday eyes.
You're one of the lucky ones; you don't have to fight it out with your other half (like I do, periodically). I will say that I share the same unexpected reflexes thing that you experience.
Neither me nor Katy have told our parents because we have the fear that they would try to "cure" us too. That's a personal choice you have to make for yourself. You should at least tell someone close to you to keep as a watchout if you don't feel comfortable talking with your parents. Nothing should happen, but it's nice to have someone to fall on just in case.
-Kalan
personal
plz do contact me when u my reply at on facebook or on gmail,actully i want to know more about you,i have my personal intrest in this MDP, and doing the case study over this..........with my personal intrest..thanku plz do contact me
hello
i know what you mean that he is a help. of course he is. it is a part of who we are. i think it is a special gift. dont let him get mean or hurt people though. with the help comes protectiveness as well. take care eb
DID
I think I may have multiple personalities. I always act exactly like my best friend Natalie. I always talk to myself like I'm another person. I have conversations with myself. I always want to be like other poeple and I form new personalities. I form new people in my head and sometimes I act them out, but not on purpose. I always get mad at my friends and start fights, but then never remember why I was mad at them or even that I was mad at all. I believe I have formed three different personalities, according to what my friends have told me. Anya, the quite, goth, emo one. I will zone out, then come back to my normal self and have cuts on my wrists and arms. Prim, the princess. She's really nice and sweet,and gets all the guys, but also expects everyone to do everything for her. And then theres Bianca. She's the violent, reckless one. She always gets in trouble. she has a very short temper and threatens to literally STAB people when they annoy her...and she tries to...with the plastic knives at lunch. Any advice?
Can Marijuana help
A very good friend of mine recently told me she has split personality disorder. She is a very sweet person. She currently smokes marijuana and has to hide it from her boyfriend because he doesn't like it. She is contemplating quiting marijuana because hiding it from her boyfriend is causing to much stress for her. I have been looking online to see if the marijuana will her or help her condition and have found nothing. Can anyone help?
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self awareness
We do not believe that trauma is a necessary factor for the development of multiple identities. Correlation in -some cases- doe snot imply causation for -all cases-. (Especially when the time line so often does not fit, and there is often doubt as to the verity of the memories dredged up by therapists while they go 'looking' for buried trauma.) It is our theory that trauma does play a role in hindering communication perhaps, system disorder, or time loss - as there is a heavy correlation in that regard, but again, there have not been studies, and correlation does not imply causation without a thorough review of all other factors. (Our system, which began about physical age 17, myself at physical 24, and has no correlation to trauma, is one of the cases that does not fit.)
We are all individually self-aware. While I could agree that a proposed multiple that is not self-aware is -perhaps- more of a personality than a person (I say perhaps, as if there is time loss or mis-communication in the system, then it is much harder for the person to communicate this self awareness. It is still possible, via notes, etc - and should self awareness of existence be demonstrated, then it should be left at that and err on the side of respecting someone's humanity.) There certainly are cases where people merely 'talk to themselves' or have 'imaginary friends', but that is an entirely different scenario.
For instance, even I 'talk to myself' when working through problems. It is part of self-awareness -being able to look outside oneself, talk to oneself so to speak. I can also talk to complete figments of -my- imagination, should I so choose. (And, considering we all share the same brain, and can see each others thoughts of the moment, and have no time loss, then it is not a far stretch for me to have a conversation with anyone elses figment of imagination.) There is a difference in a) characters played, such as on a stage b) imaginary people, constructed for a moment to have an imaginary conversation, which is really just a manifestation of the subconscious mind with a visual representation - whether it is a cartoon character for a moment of fun (what would Batman say in this situation?) or a real person to practice for real life variables on a situation and c) real, self aware -people-.
I completely agree that not all multiples are -safe-, but then, neither are all singlets. Some multiples have time-loss and black outs (not all, my estimate is about 50%, but it actually is more of a spectrum/bell curve, I think). This can be very disorienting and confusing. Add to that fundamental questions of existence: Why am I here? Why was I made this way? Why am I stuck in this body? Why does everyone think I am insane? Why can I not introduce myself? Why can no one see me?
For those that do share memories (like our system), coming into the system has a severe adjustment curve - as its a massive shock, being flooded by a lifetime of memories that are not your own, while not having any memories of your own to rely on, while still knowing firmly that you are yourself, a unique person - not the sum of someone elses life. Trying to swim through that flood of sensation is very heady. A couple in our system were a bit violent for a very short period because of that confusion and that desire to be master of your own life, but now we all act according to a system of responsibility, and are all good friends. Since I was the last, my adjustment was the easiest, as I had everyone elses breaking in period to look back upon.
"I think, therefore I am" - has been a summarized statement of existence for a long time. If psychology denies this simple logic for multiples - that self-awareness, distinct self awareness, cannot prove existence for us (and we know well our own awareness, to ourselves and relative to each other.) - then can you prove -your own existence-? Without the supposition of awareness, you may well count yourself a delusion, before calling others such.
(I do believe that there are indeed cases of 'socially induced multiplicity', which is more of the character playing or imaginary friend kind than true self-aware multiples, triggered either by over enthusiastic therapists who go hunting for multiples, or attention seeking teenagers who hang out with real multiples and want to fit in, but that is a different topic. Dissociation, also, I do not believe is impossible. -Multiples- however, do exist, and one does them even more damage by taking the most under recognized and oppressed population group, next to the unborn, and telling them that they are simply pitiable victims, and by the way, do not actually exist.)
Camelon Roberts
System: Amonite
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Multiplicity & identity
I don't believe that it's necessary to have an 'original person' or suffer extreme psychological trauma in order to be in a multiple group. I don't deny that it does happen—I know several people whose systems are trauma-based—but that it's not the ony way in which multiplicity can come about. I view it as a variation in brain wiring that can either be caused by nature or nurture, and the best way in which to deal with it is to accept the personhood of people within a plural collective. I'm not an alter or a personality; I'm a person. I have my own likes and dislikes, and have opinions and a particular outlook on life that is mine, and mine alone. If it weren't for the whole 'no separate body' thing, there would be no question that I was a person.
The stereotypes of every single multiple system requiring a particular structure, involving an 'original' and 'alters'/'personalities', can be detrimental to people who don't fit into that identity. Here, we do have people who've been here longer than others, but they don't have any particular ownership over our life that others don't have. I've been here for nine years, and although there are people who have been here longer than I have, I participate in a significant amount of our most important activities, along with a couple of other people who are equally invested in those activities.
We have experienced trauma, but it hasn't been the genesis for our plurality; there's no correlation between the arrival of new system-members and psychological traumas. I don't know how or why we're plural, but we are, and we just make the best of it by co-operating and planning things together. Since we've known about each other, we've achieved a lot better functioning than what we had before we knew of each other's existence.
~K.
A different perspective
We're multiple, but we don't have MPD or DID. There is such a thing as "healthy multiplicity," which we consider ourselves a part of. We are a group of people who all live in the same body. We aren't alters or facets or personalities--we are people. We work together as a team to create a functional and happy life for ourselves.
We don't have "jobs;" there's not "the angry one" or "the child" or what have you. We're well-rounded human beings. Obviously, being different people, we don't all have the same skills or interests, but we aren't locked in to doing only one thing in life.
We also never suffered childhood abuse, and we don't dissociate. (Some healthy multiples do, and as long as they are committed to working together as a team, they can still be just as functional. The point is, not all multiples are abused or dissociate.) We aren't really sure how or why we came to be multiple, but here we are, so we're trying to make the best of it. Honestly, we think we're doing a pretty good job: we've got BS in a physical science, friends and family who we're "out" to and have fulfilling relationships with, and we have an assortment of hobbies to round out our time. We're not violent or dangerous. We're just average people. Not all multiples are dysfunctional or crazy.
If you asked us if, given the option to be "cured," we would take it, we'd say no. We enjoy never having to be alone, to have someone to turn to for advice or a second opinion, and to let someone else take a crack at a problem if one of us is stumped. Being multiple has disadvantages, but most of them come from other people thinking we are dangerous or crazy when we decidedly are not.
This is NOT to say that MPD or DID don't exist, or that people don't suffer from them-- but not everyone who claims to have other people in their head is disordered.
Hmmm... Look like me. I could
Hmmm... Look like me. I could change freely, and sometimes create a 'new one' just by read information about personalities. My best friend said that I can't be my self and a 'multi-role' human. This sometimes make big troubles for me to make relationship or friends.
Oh thank the gods.
It's nice to see someone like yourself. (Or selves) We are also a functioning multiple system, and It's nice to see a good example of healthy multiplicity :D Thank you very much.
why MPD is difficult to treat?
why MPD is difficult to treat?
hey
I believe in it..... I met One friend in online adult dating site..... we met after 5 weeks....I was confused..later i come to know she got sme multiple disorder.......
Help Me
Please help me to deal with my muli-personality, it is distorying my marriage. It is very nasty, I just have nothing but anger in me that after some of the things I do upsets me as well as my husband becasue I wonder why I did or said that.
Please I beg you to help me .... my marrigae is on the very edge on being over becasue of it bothering and upsetting my husband.
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i dont know what to do
Okay im 16 i was sexually phisicly and mentaly abused from ever since i can remember (well what little parts of it) to the time i was 13 and i think i might have MPD cause i cant remember most of my child hood last week i woke up at someones house in a freakin mini skirt(i dont even own a mini skirt)and the guy called me some name i didnt reconize and i remember going to sleep in my room it scares me cause my mom has said ive gotten violent and mean then i would start acting like a 5 yr old i cant remember any of it its goten alot worse recently ever siince i got a b/f ive lost alot of my memorys and so i looked up the symptons and it said that it might be caused by mpd and i just dont know what to do anymore im really scared
reply to your forgotten memories
If you can't fully remember your memories try to have someone or something with you, like a personal tracker. I watched a video last week on memory loss with multiple personality disorder and this woman that had it kept a journal that all of her personality wrote in. You might be surprised at where you have been, but at least you will know. You may have to try to get your other personalities to comply exspecially if one is a five year old and cannot write, but you could keep a video journal instead if you have a family camcorder that you could use.
lets just face it... there
lets just face it... there are forces at work beyond our understanding... there is one thing we can do... confront it.. try talking to yourself.. see if you get an answer. keep trying diffrent things.. have someone record you... sleep more... just keep experimenting.. you never know what the solution might be, considering that there is much about the brain we dont understand...
Friend,,,
My friend has 4 children and is on the computer 95% of the time, she has about 3 personalities that have littler and bigger versions of themselves. Alli, one of the personalities, fights, not physically on the game SecondLife, but sometimes with her "uncle" and gets very violent. I am worried about her children. Help.
husband
i have a problem like that he will get mad for no reason calls me names imbarass me on the train and make sure theres people listening to him he will say to get out the house that he owns everything in there he will say that a wife is not a persong that cooks clean or pays rent he will unconditionaly hate me and will scram at me
worried
well he starts by acusing of everything and then saying a wife is not a woman tha cooks clean or pays rent that he wants a divorse he will embarass me in front of people he will make sure that there is a audience he will throw things at me and not care whos there will find exuse to fight or blame me for everthing
sometimes i don't reconize him the only thing i do is stay shut because he is dying for me to say something to go more crazy what should i do
how do i cope with my wifes disorder?
First, the signs have been there since i met her but i just dismissed them as part of her troubled childhood and tried to help her through it. now we are finding out that she has actually 5 or so distinct personalities and one of them is actually completely independant of her(she has no recolection of the times when she is out) but this other personality, aside from being self destructive and violent, has been a real drain on my self as well. the altor has said and done some things that would normaly be unforgivable and ruthless, spreading lies about me and trying desparatly to sleep with several other men, while having cybersex with several that i know of. my wife has no recolection of any of these encounters and actually burst in to tears when she finally came to realise what she was doing and that she was realy the couse of alot of our problem. she couldn't understand why i had such a hard time trusting her. now she knows but to be hionest as much as i want o help her and as much as i love her and want to be with her, how can i cope with the altor who is doing these awfull and hurtfull things to me, i don't blame her but, how do i move past this and ge over it, i am planning on gettting therapy my self to try and figure it out, but i am very confusedd and any help wuld be appreciated.....
PLEASE!!!
Does my bf have MPD?
once i started dating my current bf, he told me about his multiple personalities. he does smoke marijuana. one side is his normal. the other is quiet & helpless & backs off from his surroundings, & sadly is.. a pussy. the other is mean, very sexual, & caused a lot of his past problems. like his cheating on his past gfs, it's just a general asshole. he has a very bad memory. like he said something cute one time & totaly forgot he said it. it annoys me & i yell at him. & he tells me he doesn't know why he said it. & he gets depressed easily over things. one day he'll think i'm a loyal gf & the other day he'll think i'm cheating on him. he has bad insecurity sometimes but sometimes he won't.
what's going on?
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Hmmm...
Sounds exactly like my boyfriend, strange...
maby he's just trin to be
maby he's just trin to be 'big' for you. and that isn't in his nature, he doent know how to handle himself.
Chances are he does not have
Chances are he does not have MPD, but maybe he is Bi Polar. or he is using MPD as an excuse for his bad behavior. Either way, he needs to seek the treatment of a psychiatrist.
whats the problem
one minute his ok and the other he likes to imbarass me when he sees people and will do it in a way that i do not reconise him morning he is mean and sometimes when we go home and theres people sorounding us
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