Multiple_Personality_Disorder

Multiple Personality Disorder “The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states,” is something you’d expect to hear as the title to an X-files episode. In reality, this line is found in the DSM-IV as a physiological disorder. This rare disorder is called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or formally known as multiple personality disorder. Dissociation is a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. In DID at least two of the identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person’s behavior. In some cases the personalities are so separate that they don’t know they inhabit a body with other “people.” The origins of dissociative identity disorder are still not understood. Although it’s not understood, one theory suggests that it developed in response to childhood abuse. The abuse then can lead to many symptoms in adulthood. Questions have been raised as to why DID occurs and the symptoms that follow it. Because of this uncertainty, misdiagnosis occurs and makes it very difficult to find the correct kind of treatment. Research shows that DID may affect 1% of the general disorder, dissociative, two, treatment, traumatic, symptoms, personality, people, identity, identities, disorders, child, abuse, understood, thoughts, take, states, situations, separate, result, process, physical, person’s, personalities, own, occurs, memories, just, highly, going, function, feelings, experiences, dissociation