Multiple personality disorder
March 3, 2010
Multiple personality disorder is a condition in which the person displays multiple personalities at different times or on different occasions. It may be triggered environmentally, socially, or on certain events.Multiple personality disorder is also called dissociative identity disorder, and both these terms are used interchangeably.
So how to detect multiple personality disorder…
Here are the symptoms of multiple personality disorder…
- Showing or portraying a variety of mannerisms, that makes it difficult to find out the person’s personality type.
- Having varying perceptions on different things, that are frail in conviction, and which can be easily influenced over.
- Having no consistency in behavior. Like for example, talking to you on a day, and the next day, completely ignoring you or treating you as a stranger, but somebody who has to be introduced.
- Having loose-rooted belief systems. Not having strong principles of discretion. Easily donning some one else’s belief and value systems or the lack of it.
- Lack of individualism. Propensity to live vicariously through another person’s personality. Lacking distinction between fantasy and reality. For example, some people with multiple personality disorder will fantasizing about a movie star, and start behaving and dressing up like the movie star’s onscreen personality. It is often seen in teenagers, but it can even happen to adults to a point of split personality syndrome.
- They feel that their fantasy-figures are always talking to them. They are in mock conversations with nobody in particular.
- Fear, anger, and depression So what causes multiple personality disorder?
There is no established set of causes of multiple personality disorder. One can never be certain that the causes did trigger of a dissociative personality.
Here are some of the so-called known causes of multiple personality disorder…
- Most multiple personality disorder happens to people who have been subjected to abuse of any kind during their childhoods. The constant stress makes the child seek for ‘screensavers’
- Certain medical conditions like Alzheimer’s disease can cause multiple personality disorder or dissociative identity disorder.
- It can also be caused due to an operation on the brain, that has caused some damage.
- Even mental trauma can cause multiple personality disorder.
Treatment
- Psychiatry is prescribed for multiple personality disorder.
- Special classes what encourage the person’s expression of thought and opinion, can bring forth hidden inhibitions, and relieve the person.
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