Multiple Personality Disorder - Symptoms and Solutions

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Annette	i've been trying to help my friend for yrs. His tough personality keeps blocking every move i've made. There's nothing weong with him he thinks. When something really bad happens like he spent the night ingaol the other night for breaking an AVO he can tell me what he did "I BROKE AN AVO" but there are no further details, its almost robotic like that he says it, Just that he's been told he broke an AVO and he's probably going to gaol for 2yrs for it. I'm the person he broke the AVO on, I know this man so very well, I'm the only one that has seen all his personas, one of them is slightly feminine, he likes to wear my clothes.. . I'm so worried for him, gaol is no place for a diagnosed multi, certainly no where for an un diagnosed one - I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO	12/21/2011
laser	Drugs and hypnosis are used to "repurpose" the "patient" into a personal atm for the psychotherapist. Drugs worsen the existing symptoms and create symptoms of their own. Hypnosis allows the basturd quack to more easily control the patient's sub/conscious mind. Many quacks rape their patients sexually, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically. Don't be a victim. Avoid these psychopaths like the evil plague they are.	12/14/2011
seleman Edson	THANKS THESE INFO. HAVE VERY HELPFUL,but i just want to know what will happen when the person suffering DID commit murder &what will be the reaction the court to this person	11/4/2011
seleman Edson	can these such guys engaged in criminal ?And if so what can the court decide if such person commit murder	11/4/2011
john	thank you for the info.. It has been a lot more helpful to me than expected thanks again..	10/17/2011
nirajan	when i am drunk i cant remember anything next morning i wonder what i did? I asked m friends but they said i was acting all normal and even i was driving safe.	7/27/2011
jikay	Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one "alter" personality that controls behavior. The "alters" are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which we identify our selves, is said to be absent in MPD. Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia which can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV replaced the designation of MPD with DID: dissociative identity disorder. The label may have changed, but the list of symptoms remained essentially the same. Memory and other aspects of consciousness are said to be divided up among "alters" in the MPD. The number of "alters" identified by various therapists ranges from several to tens to hundreds. There are even some reports of several thousand identities dwelling in one person. There does not seem to be any consensus among therapists as to what an "alter" is. Yet, there is general agreement that the cause of MPD is repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. The evidence for this claim has been challenged, however, and there are very few reported cases of MPD afflicting children. Psychologist Nicholas P. Spanos argues that repressed memories of childhood abuse and multiple personality disorder are "rule-governed social constructions established, legitimated, and maintained through social interaction." In short, Spanos argues that most cases of MPD have been created by therapists with the cooperation of their patients and the rest of society. The experts have created both the disease and the cure. This does not mean that MPD does not exist, but that its origin and development are often, if not most often, explicable without the model of separate but permeable ego-states or "alters" arising out of the ashes of a destroyed "original self." A rather common view of MPD is given by philosopher Daniel Dennett. ...the evidence is now voluminous that there are not a handful or a hundred but thousands of cases of MPD diagnosed today, and it almost invariably owes its existence to prolonged early childhood abuse, usually sexual, and of sickening severity. Nicholas Humphrey and I investigated MPD several years ago ["Speaking for Our Selves: An Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder," Raritan, 9, pp. 68-98] and found it to be a complex phenomenon that extends far beyond individual brains and the sufferers. These children have often been kept in such extraordinary terrifying and confusing circumstances that I am more amazed that they survive psychologically at all than I am that they manage to preserve themselves by a desperate redrawing of their boundaries. What they do, when confronted with overwhelming conflict and pain, is this: They "leave." They create a boundary so that the horror doesn't happen to them; it either happens to no one, or to some other self, better able to sustain its organization under such an onslaught--at least that's what they say they did, as best they recall. Dennett exhibits minimal skepticism about the truth of the MPD accounts, and focuses on how they can be explained metaphysically and biologically. For all his brilliant exploration of the concept of the self, the one perspective he doesn't seem to give much weight to is the one Spanos takes: that the self and the multiple selves of the MPD patient are social constructs, not needing a metaphysical or biological explanation so much as a social-psychological one. That is not to say that our biology is not a significant determining factor in the development of our ideas about selves, including our own self. It is to say, however, that before we go off worrying about how to metaphysically explain one or a hundred selves in one body, or one self in a hundred bodies, we might want to consider that a phenomenological analysis of behavior which takes that behavior at face value, or which attributes it to nothing but brain structure and biochemistry, may be missing the most significant element in the creation of the self: the sociocognitive context in which our ideas of self, disease, personality, memory, etc., emerge. Being a social construct does not make the self any less real, by the way. And Spanos should not be taken to deny either that the self exists or that MPD exists. But if thinkers of Dennett's stature accept MPD as something which needs explaining in terms of psychological dynamics limited to the psyche of the abused rather than in terms of social constructs, the task of convincing therapists who treat MPD to accept Spanos' way of thinking is Herculean. How could it be possible that most MPD patients have been created in the therapist's laboratory, so to speak? How could it be possible that so many people, particularly female people [85% of MPD patients are female], could have so many false memories of childhood sexual abuse? How could so many people behave as if their bodies have been invaded by numerous entities or personalities, if they hadn't really been so invaded? How could so many people actually experience past lives under hypnosis, a standard procedure of some therapists who treat MPD? How could the defense mechanism explanation for MPD, in terms of repression of childhood sexual trauma and dissociation, not be correct? How could so many people be so wrong about so much? Spanos' answer makes it sound almost too easy for such a massive amount of self-deception and delusion to develop: it's happened before and we all know about it. Remember demonic possession? Most educated people today do not try to explain epilepsy, brain damage, genetic disorders, neurochemical imbalances, feverish hallucinations, or troublesome behavior by appealing to the idea of demonic possession. Yet, at one time, all of Europe and America would have accepted such an explanation. Furthermore, we had our experts--the priests and theologians--to tell us how to identify the possessed and how to exorcise the demons. An elaborate theological framework bolstered this worldview, and an elaborate set of social rituals and behaviors validated it on a continuous basis. In fact, every culture, no matter how primitive and pre-scientific, had a belief in some form of demonic possession. It had its shamans and witch doctors who performed rituals to rid the possessed of their demons. In their own sociocognitive contexts, such beliefs and behaviors were seen as obviously correct, and were constantly reinforced by traditional and customary social behaviors and expectations. Most educated people today believe that the behaviors of witches and other possessed persons--as well as the behaviors of their tormentors, exorcists, and executioners--were enactments of social roles. With the exception of religious fundamentalists (who still live in the world of demons, witches, and supernatural magic), educated people do not believe that in those days there really were witches, or that demons really did invade bodies, or that priests really did exorcise those demons by their ritualistic magic. Yet, for those who lived in the time of witches and demons, these beings were as real as anything else they experienced. In Spanos' view, what is true of the world of demons and exorcists is true of the psychological world filled with phenomena such as repression of childhood sexual trauma and its manifestation in such disorders as MPD. Spanos makes a very strong case for the claim that "patients learn to construe themselves as possessing multiple selves, learn to present themselves in terms of this construal, and learn to reorganize and elaborate on their personal biography so as to make it congruent with their understanding of what it means to be a multiple." Psychotherapists, according to Spanos, "play a particularly important part in the generation and maintenance of MPD." According to Spanos, most therapists never see a single case of MPD and some therapists report seeing hundreds of cases each year. It should be distressing to those trying to defend the integrity of psychotherapy that a patient's diagnosis depends upon the preconceptions of the therapist. However, an MPD patient typically has no memory of sexual abuse upon entering therapy. Only after the therapist encourages the patient do memories of sexual abuses emerge. Furthermore, the typical MPD patient does not begin manifesting "alters" until after treatment begins (Piper 1998). MPD therapists counter these charges by claiming that their methods are tried and true, which they know from experience, and those therapists who never treat MPD don't know what to look for.* Multiple selves exist, and have existed in other cultures, without being related to the notion of a mental disorder, as is the case today in North America. According to Spanos, "Multiple identities can develop in a wide variety of cultural contexts and serve numerous different social functions." Neither childhood sexual abuse nor mental disorder is a necessary condition for multiple personality to manifest itself. Multiple personalities are best understood as "rule-governed social constructions." They "are established, legitimated, maintained, and altered through social interaction." In a number of different historical and social contexts, people have learned to think of themselves as "possessing more than one identity or self, and can learn to behave as if they are first one identity and then a different identity." However, "people are unlikely to think of themselves in this way or to behave in this way unless their culture has provided models from whom the rules and characteristics of multiple identity enactments can be learned. Along with providing rules and models, the culture, through its socializing agents, must also provide legitimation for multiple self enactments." Again, Spanos is not saying that MPD does not exist, but that the standard model of (a) abuse, (b) withdrawal of original self, and then (c) emergence of alters, is not needed to explain MPD. Nor is the psychological baggage that goes with that model: repression, recovered memory of childhood sexual abuse, integration of alters in therapy. Nor are the standard diagnostic techniques: hypnosis, including past life regression, and Rorschach tests.	5/8/2011
jikay	Points of view and implications of MPD / DID: MPD/DID is extremely controversial. As in the case of Recovered Memory Therapy (RMT) Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA), beliefs about destructive and mind control cults, abuse during UFO abductions, etc., almost all experts in the field are deeply polarized into two groups, which we call: "Skeptics: - those who believe that MPD is a psychological fad. It is either non-existent or phenomenally rare in nature. It is a disorder that has an iatrogenic cause; it is unknowingly created by the therapist-patient interaction. Thousands of victims have been generated by bad therapy. "Believers" - those who see MPD as a very serious public mental health problem affecting perhaps 1% of the population. These are further divided into: "Secular believers" Most are humanistic therapists and feminist counselors who believe that MPD is quite common, is caused by severe abuse during childhood, and can be resolved by re-integrating the alters into the dominant personality through therapy. Some believe that MPD occurs naturally, without any therapist involvement, and is unrelated to childhood abuse. "Religious believers" - typically some Roman Catholics, Fundamentalist and other Evangelical Christians who view MPD as a byproduct of demon possession that can only be cured through exorcism. As in so many other therapeutic controversies, it is imperative that we reach a consensus on MPD quickly in order to minimize continuing harm to the public: If MPD is an iatrogenic (therapist caused) disorder which does not naturally appear in society, then it is important that exorcisms and MPD therapy be discontinued, to avoid creating additional victims. If MPD is real, if alters exist, and if the disorder is caused by severe child abuse, then attempted exorcisms by religious believers could exacerbate the victims' suffering. Activities by skeptics could prevent victims from receiving proper therapy. If MPD is real, occurs naturally, is not a disorder, and is unrelated to childhood abuse, then it should be appreciated and studied; persons with MPD should be valued, not treated. If MPD is real and is caused by indwelling demonic spirits, then psychotherapy to integrate the alters could cause great harm. Attacks by skeptics could prevent victims from seeking release through exorcisms.	5/8/2011
sharm	what will happen if a girl were undergoes multiple personality diorder because previously she had love with the same gender and the person die because of plane crush	4/19/2011
Keith Metcalfe	I am guilty	4/17/2011
John	What hypnosis techniques would you use to find out the deeper meaning of the patient?	4/11/2011
hillary duff	Oh wow... My mom says she thinks I have this... It kinda scares me now because of the fact that I have like all of the symptoms. Wow. 12/19/2010 Christina I need help i can't seem to control her ...i forget things and now my friends are mad at me for something i don't remember is their way to keep her chill i don't want her gone i need her but im afraid of her my parents dont know they wouldnt believe me they have seen her but they dont realize it's not me help please	4/3/2011
joe blow	hello im back again	4/3/2011
tinkerbell	i need help pls james thx	4/3/2011
Zombie	blugghah- Brains	4/3/2011
biliobob	hello people im back!	4/3/2011
Administration	OFF THE SITE NOW! I HAVE YOUR IP ADDRESS..	3/29/2011
silly billy	i dont know	3/29/2011
Billy Joe	umm who dis?	3/29/2011
tom thumb	hi james im back hahahaheheheheehahahahahah	3/29/2011
Abadigaberry	Gabby has Turrets ...ah he he he	3/29/2011
billy joe	Hey sharn i'm back...	3/28/2011
Billy Jo- james	hi im back	3/27/2011
Billy Jo	did i tell you that i stink at helicopter game and i would totally give kyle a bj is he just asked! gosh!...just ask me kyle plz?	3/27/2011
Billy Jo	glavin? are you there glavin? i need someone to throw me bp. glavin? where are you. anyways i also am behiind ur shed right now with bulbasaur and stealing ur stash glavin?	3/27/2011
Billy Jo	Aheluk... a	3/27/2011
bad girl	sorry james anad rosie but hey you have to agree imnot even liked by the voices in my head to wld u like tob friends wit me u know wat friends i like	3/27/2011
james	hey since we have no friends whe should be friends...ahreagh...Hi im lucy	3/27/2011
tummy yum	james has no friends either so dont feel bad rosie james isnt liked by no one not even the voices in his head	3/27/2011
Hungry AL	did someone eat my taco?	3/27/2011
billy	omg james has manylil friernds inhis head tht he loves them all hes even names them like rosie,peter,gabby evry1	3/27/2011
sally	hhahahah james has the runs he aslo likes other lil things and takes them where he loves them put	3/27/2011
sally	omg james i got in hahahahaha	3/27/2011
james	hollywood here i come.	3/27/2011
Rosie/ Lucy	Help me... im changing... ahreua! hi im Lucy	3/27/2011
Sharn H	james has this aswell. hes had 20 of them people in his mind :) he sits in a corner and cant get them out! how do we get them out of him?	3/27/2011
Sharn H	i never knew i had this thing?	3/27/2011
Peter	Cool	3/27/2011
Moni	No one says anything about what happens to those personalities. Most doctors feel getting rid of them equals being cured. What if that's not what is wanted.	3/21/2011
michelle	it was a good source for me and thanks	3/17/2011
Shaziya	plzzz help me am suffering frm dis disease... oll symtoms r in my favour...HELP	3/7/2011
tamil	is it true for multiple personality	2/12/2011
Mason	I think I've had this since age 12. How do I find help with it? I'm kind of scared to tell anyone.	1/17/2011
Rania Mahmood	I want to know what if a particular person's personality alter or split only when he or she is alone or think that nobody is watching him/her? Is that also a case of MPD?	1/5/2011
Emily (:	Oh wow... My mom says she thinks I have this... It kinda scares me now because of the fact that I have like all of the symptoms. Wow.	12/19/2010
Christina	I need help i can't seem to control her ...i forget things and now my friends are mad at me for something i don't remember is their way to keep her chill i don't want her gone i need her but im afraid of her my parents dont know they wouldnt believe me they have seen her but they dont realize it's not me help please	12/19/2010
Katey	Is it true that these personalities also have names? Because I have and older sister who was diagnosed this disorder 2 years ago. We have met most of her personalities and they are very nice. Except one, it is a ticking time bomb and if my sister is very stressed out and angry that personality tends to come out and it takes a cardboard box and attacks it with a butter knife and always has the stereo blarring when it does so. What should or could we do to help calm this personality down?!	12/14/2010
linsey	i read this and a lot of it reminds me of my dad, and know a little about his past i am getting kinda scared	12/10/2010
amrot	indeed it's up to me	12/2/2010
jadiey	not bad,pretty clear on information	11/21/2010
JOJO JUNAID	i liked ur information a lot. this info makes a person more optimistic about MPD	11/13/2010
Jordan	Um... I am having a problem with the perspective this article takes to MPD/DID. Talking to the alters and having them talk to the core (the "real" person) and in general treating them like individuals (rather than as a disorder) has shown to be much more helpful in the long run. They were "created" to protect the core and are often very important to the healing process (especially if they hold traumatic memories that the core is unaware of). tl;dr - They think of themselves as people, and giving them that little bit of respect is much more beneficial than anything else you can do.	11/4/2010
shakthi	Really, i learnt so much about multiple personality in this article,.	11/2/2010
mynx 82	what do ido if i think my partner is sufering from this i tried 2 phne isdr he neva cald bak.	10/20/2010
jackie	i dont think this is true. Mary talks to me and says its perfectly fine that she uses my body. she also says its ok that shes only inside my head. I dont think theres ANYTHING wrong with me.Only Mary(shes dangerous)	10/12/2010
Phillip	i love love love your info	10/12/2010
Britt Wolfe	I'm not sure if this information is accurate, but I will be finding out if it is... However, you should probably proofread that.. There are quite a few grammatical issues... Just saying...	8/5/2010
Drew	ok what if i only have one other person in my head? And I can control her...most the time.	8/4/2010
kanika	HI, my frnd is usd to speak to me about the lady which actualy dont exist? is this is a kind of disorder?	7/24/2010
MIKAEL	hello, my close friend of mine who is doctor, told that i hav go MPD & thts true but how i can get rid of that ...help me !	6/29/2010
john	i feel i have most of these symptoms you have described but not all of them, does that mean i do or don't have a problem/disorder	6/26/2010
claire	COOL...but DANGEROUS...	6/22/2010
ASHELY.	EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING AROUND US IN THE SITUATION WHICH WE ARE LIVING IS NOTHING BUT A PART OF NATURE PSYCHE WHICH I CALL IT.	6/14/2010
ASMITA	I THINK IT IS A HORRIBLE DISORDER AND ITS TREATMENT IS LONG-LASTING.	6/14/2010
Susan	Sometimes i feel so out of control i feel like another person a wild person takes over and i do or say things that infringe on my moral descisions and standards i have set for myself. i feel dissacociated from who i am. i get so excited and after words i feel guilty and extremely exhausted . What does this mean?	6/2/2010
jc	amazing	6/2/2010
swaran	my sister in law suomtimes talk lyk boy ...	5/26/2010
Dustin pittman	Where would you go to get help for this disorder?	5/5/2010
chuck norris	"god is great beer is good...and people are crazy"	4/19/2010
shona	is it possible that i could have other personalities, I sometimes miss a few minutes, missplacing conversations, once in a while peices come back to me, and sometimes i feel like i am someone else. I have been dig. as bipolar scit. as a teen, but do not see a theropist today. paranoia sometimes keeps me from seeing a dr.	2/28/2010
mrtoo2	this information is old, there still calling DID MPD and hypnosis has been know to causes more harm than good. And very narrow regarding info. on Disassociative Identity Disorder	2/25/2010
Jake	Thanks, this helps out alot. Two of my friends have it Thanks soo much.	2/10/2010
jo jo	theres no info on how many people are diagnosed with schizophrenia each year !	2/6/2010
shy	I believe i have this	1/23/2010
blue	aint none of us perfect yhe simple thing is to accept everyone for who they are and go on	1/12/2010
porks b33	this page has helped me alot,readin it i have realised that i have mpd.just need help now so i dnt lose the people i love around me...	1/10/2010
Lynn Nehme	My friend has this illness but he does not show any of the above mentioned symptoms. He just changes from friendly and nice to verbally abusive and says his old self "died" He did state that he has not been himself lateley and that he had a really horrible and abusive past. It hurts my heart so much.	1/9/2010
Kat	i think i have this	11/26/2009
Dr James Wakely	Psychosis and neurosis are different things. Although many psychotics can ALSO be neurotic (compare with physical illnesses, a person can have pneumonia AND a fracture) NOTHING can be "a psychotic (neurosis) disorder..." Neurosis is usually when you are basically sane, but have excess undue anxiety over things that wouldn't bother "normal" people. Psychosis is when you are insane, out of touch with reality (perhaps happily perhaps otherwise!) - seeing / hearing things that are not there. Convinced you are being controlled or that plots & conspiracies are all around you. (And you very probably cannot be convinced otherwise...) Whoever wrote that has not grasped a few basic psychiatric facts...	11/22/2009
heath	I have DID and am high functioning. There is NO medication for DID only medication for symptoms such as depression, anxiety. Rarely does it come out in childhood and almost never diagnosised as a child. It's not a psychosis but a dissociative disorder. People that have it know that they have it or that something is wrong we aren't just clueless about it. As far as loosing memory no maybe chicnks of time but not memory. All the memory is there it just sits with other parts and comes out when the person can handle it. Generally the alters will do whatever to protect the person or host and they don't run around all crazy. They generally hide unless provoked. I have friends that know i have this and have clue if an alter is out or not that is how well it is usually hidden. If the alters don't want anyone to know about them trust me they won't. I don't take any medication for this but i am in therapy. I have a degree, most people would be shocked to learn i have this.	11/20/2009
Heath	I think who ever wrote this needs to get his facts straight prior tyo writing an article	11/20/2009
chelsea	how do you cure such a thing like this? is this sort of thing be gentic?	11/18/2009
jamie	i have 2 personailtys the left side tells me 2 do bad stuff like kill my mates and family and the right side argues with it telin it 2 stop ..any 1 help?	11/10/2009
komal rai	hi,i am komalrai from kathmandu,nepal.i have a problem,first of all it feels like i am afraid that my head left part of my head,use to talk a lot,i don'tknow what is that?and my left part of cheek feels numb like heavy.and my back part of head feels if there is something inside and my brain use to talk a lot for second.ii feels like inside me theres a spirit?is this is a symtoms of multiple disorder?	11/7/2009
DaniGirl	My friend "Sam" is also a pyromaniac and enjoys being tazered lol. not sure this has anything to do with DID though lol	10/29/2009
Anonumous	How is it that alot pf parents act this way towards their children?	10/29/2009
Me 2	MPD can be caused in adulthood too. Most experts do not recognize that fact. Primarily it happens then from situations such as the very usual regression to child that happens when adult women are held captive and tortured. Police who respond first to women victims of such often remark the female victims are like little girls. This happens also to males held as sex slaves but less often. Once in the child-like state they can and do develope DID or MPD as it used to be called. The prognosis is very good for MPD developed late in life as the patient does have a sense of oneness to recognize when and if they integrate back to that state. It is the (usual) lack of experience with being just one identity that makes this disorder hard to overcome.	10/28/2009
Dawn	where do you start? where do you go to get help?	10/16/2009
Rob Mcwhannell	My ex wife has a close friend that fits this description. She can be very nice one minute, then like a flick of a switch, turn into a very scary disturbed abusive nutter.	10/11/2009
DaniGirl	I had a friend with this problem. It started when he was 11 years old when he stabbed his dad about half a dozen times (fortunately he survived). He was misdiagnosed several times, first with bi polar then with schizophrenia. He's now 24 years old and its really difficult for him. He has 2 other personalities. The one called Sam is really dangerous and has almost killed people on several occasions. For some reason though he never attacks females. He's the sweetest guy ever. Sometimes he remembers what his other personalities did in his dreams. Its wierd i know. Unfortunately for the people he decides to attack, he is 6"4 and built like a rugby player and is extremely strong, and even more so when he changes into 'Sam'. It doesn't help that people are always tormenting him and trying to get him killed. It's good to know that there is actually some treatment for this disorder	10/11/2009
megogan	tacos are delicious :) like the ones from taco bell=D	9/16/2009
Anonymous	I don't believe you can ever know what another person is thinking and saying you know what goes on inside of the heads of the people with these illnesses make you a some sort of psychic. I don't believe in psychic. These people may "claim" to feel this way, but people can lie and you are given no reason to believe a person that you believe has MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES	9/3/2009
sunit gogoi	i like this article thank you so much for giving me so much knowledge about this disorder	9/1/2009
unknown	Thanks	8/14/2009
ELISE	i like this because it tells alot about people's problems... Also this is a 11 Year old who have this problem...	8/12/2009
Elise	why do i get very angery with myself? Is depresson?	8/12/2009
Reno	This is better the wiki. Good job :D	8/10/2009
Ryan	I found this artical really useful. Whilst I was reading the symptons, I discovered that I was linked to some of them. I will now plan a doctors appointment and hopefully get assesed on this issue.	8/3/2009
Anonymous	I'm 15 years old and there's this boy in my class named Jack, and he's really good looking and all, and everyone thinks he's normal. But apparently he suffers from this only during night, and he has to take loads of medication during the day. Is it possible for this to only happen at a certain time? And if so--why?	7/30/2009
jojo	i found out i have multiple personaltites	6/28/2009
fred	my wife has MPD. she have 5 alters. one is a 6 year old girl, one talks with a hillbilly accent, two very rarely come out cause they are " guardians" and the dominate alter is aggressive and threatening. Im not sure how to handle this. The alters say the more they come out the stronger they become. They dont come out while she is at work cause they dont want her to get in trouble and if she get locked up then so do they, They want to come out and have some fun. So they say. I dont want my wife all druged up. anybody got any ideas	6/17/2009
philip	very informative...	6/10/2009
Brittany :)	Wow... um i didnt read the article yet but i i'm doing this science project where i have to explain this disorder.. I really think i might have it after reading about it... I mean i dont get all emotional or anything but i do have different handwriting styles, hairstyles, and i like different things at different times. and i was sexually abused as a child, so maybe i have it... ha, wouldnt that be a trip? ;-)	5/18/2009
Jessi F.	This article is... okay I guess. You claim people with such disorder aren't even aware of having it. Yes we are. Even though our minds may be in constant chaos, we do seem to have a neutral state of mind. I wish you would've touched more on treatments, too. But until then, this seems fairly accurate.	5/4/2009
britt	i think that this article is helpful and explains the symptoms and causes well. but not much about treatment.	4/29/2009
:)	Patients suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder loose memory in the form of major chunks. I dont actually think someone "looses" memory. Lose maybe?	4/27/2009
nance	Sometimes I wonder if my sister has DID, but with just one alter personality. For years she has occassionally had binges of drinking, but when she does she becomes somnolent, pitiful, pracitically non-verbal and no visible reasons to go off on a binge...It is like night and day from the vibrant and assertive and wity person that she normally is	4/16/2009
colton Macduff	I have DID this is very hard to live with and have hurt myself over it. But that was when I was younger I think trying to conect with your ' other self (s)' as I call the alternate selfs is important an helps you deal with it all.	4/14/2009
Michael C.	its not funny, to make fun of people with MPD, i know people with this disease it may seem like fun to people who dont have it but to people who do have it.. it really isn't	4/12/2009
Andrew K.	if you suffer from MPD is there a way to bring out the alters, but you dont know you have it. is there a way to bring them out in Hypnosis, please get back to me whenever you have time...	4/12/2009
alex	i think i might have dis	4/1/2009
William Zolga	glavin? are you there glavin? i need someone to throw me bp. glavin? where are you. anyways i also am behiind ur shed right now with bulbasaur and stealing ur stash glavin?	3/26/2009
Matt Collins	did i tell you that i stink at helicopter game and i would totally give kyle a bj is he just asked! gosh!...just ask me kyle plz?	3/26/2009
nighthawk	yess it was awesome! it was so intereslisting like yes yes	3/20/2009
Ben Dovermen	i think it was awesome	3/12/2009
Thigman	This is not a vewry good description, necause it does not have enough detail towards it's theories! Get a life	2/6/2009
saswat	Its imformative. Recomended for beginers like me.	2/3/2009
Erika	just yesturday my boyfriend told me he has multiple personalities. his interests me and im gonna convince him that he should get help. :)	1/27/2009
Grisy	extremely good but need still more information to complete my project	1/3/2009
roobini	really interesting!	12/31/2008
Jade Brown	I don't know if I'm allowed to do this but, I have a question, has there been people who could sort of make themselves be involved with their alters, their other people, in some way, like a friend or even a lover?	12/10/2008
maggie l.	my experience with multiple personality disorder is that therapists want to believe it exists. doctors can do harm by forcing their beliefs on patients. i was told for years that i have this disorder and i believe it really caused me alot of harm. now that i left my doctor my life is alot better. people need to know both sides of the issue.	12/6/2008
kelly	i again found more interesting things form this GREAT article!	12/2/2008
kelly	i found many things in this article. i am doing a report for my speech class and this was a wonderful article!	12/1/2008
marina	where could someone get help with MPD. i need a website and phone number please.	11/29/2008
mili	great job,we could all really learn from this:)	11/20/2008
rusky	I think I am suffering from MPD, just had a really traumatic 2 years now in my late 50's,not abused as a child, on the contrary, had a wonderful childhood. I actually named my middle name as the perputator of my anger yesterday, and I do believe she is stronger than me, and a totally seperate entity. I am a nice person, loves everyone, she is not nice.	11/15/2008
Zareen	thanku soo much Parekh ji! I am really grateful to you for this info! I really needed this for my speech on split personality. Thanks a lottt!	11/8/2008
srishti	The article was immensely informative.. n interesting. Looking forward to more such posts..	11/5/2008
Dhaval	Your article helped me alot in gathering certain information about the disorder plz tell me something about how to handle patients who r suffering from this means hoe to handle them, how to make them feel easy	10/23/2008
Ron	I am in the same boat re having a split personality that was uncovered by Saxon-Hamilton's use of the Scientology technology and those morons at Saxon-Hamiton won't audit me either as they are a bunch of cowards. Hey John, what is your e-mail address, I would like to talk to you! Did you find someone else to audit you?	9/8/2008
John	brief but comprehensive. i would like to ask is this possible that somehow person who suffering for MPD could know about it? i mean how would person would know that he has MPD problem.? secondly can u temme are there levels of MPD like are there any stages of this problem and how can someone can know that he has this level of problem? Thanx	8/21/2008
Dayna	I am actually gathering information about my boyfriend and seeing if his docter missed something :o You see he has bipolar as well and I believe his bipolar triggers something causing him to swich personalities/ people you could say.	8/11/2008
Dayna	Very nice job. 5/5	8/11/2008
megan	Well, I Am SHOCKED. Because Most Of These Symptons Go To Me, I Am Happy And Sing Along In The Shopping Centre,Then When I Get Home I Can Be Moody & Get All Strestted Of The Littlest Things, I Have Had A Abusive Childhood(private) So Maybe I Do Have This, I Will Have Too Look More Into It	8/11/2008
Amanda	I think I have this but i'm not sure	8/2/2008
anonymous	that stinks, you have a lot of sentence structure issues	7/2/2008
shilpa	sometimes a person who had heav y drinking,makes a lot of drama at home and on the next day they doesn't remember what they have done on the previous day .Are they acting or they really don't remember?	5/28/2008
Michelle	Great article! EDEN ARE YOU STILL OUT THERE? I WANT TO TALK WITH YOU! My mom has DID and I know exactly what you are going through!	5/25/2008
mike johnert	This disease is a minor form of bipolar disorder, beware if you have it that the people who do research or therapy on you will send you to an insane asylum please i have been here for 13 years. it is horrible, and they will never let you out please try to be one person. hide your personalities as long as you can...	5/22/2008
priyanka	crap...jk i read it in an indian accent	5/14/2008
Aaiennsttashhia	my brother has this disorder and he tries his best to control it...but this article is true and important for people with this disorder to read	5/13/2008
lucky	what are some of the treatments for this disorder? if there are any and can it be cured 100% or come near to being cured? Thanks	5/12/2008
YEAH!!	Thanks so much I had a project and this helped me so much	4/28/2008
-SID	I think you dont need all that treatment to overcome it... Because sometimes it leaves you for a long period of time even if something that normally would trigger it off doesnt. Bu then a series of months down the line it may happen. People can live with it. You dont not need to undergo such treatment. Its not always as bad as it states	4/24/2008
John	I have a split personality which was undercovered by the Church of Scientology and their stupid processing. Now the splinter group that uses the technology specifically Saxon-Hamilton refuses to audit me because the pussies are afraid of the other personality. Bunch of goddamn pussies!! Screw Saxon-Hamilton!	4/23/2008
Lauren	This acticle was extremely helpful to me. I am writing a paper on MPD and this provided many great facts to help me with my paper.	4/13/2008
leeowna	what is the treatement they need	3/31/2008
naghma naseem	i think its sumthing realy strange....bt i do beleive dat MPD's exist nd live among us. i have neva seen or met a person like dat bt i have read a story buk regarding the life of a MPD...nd i'm making a presentation on MPD"S...and i wud be grateful if u can give more symptoms of MPD's...	3/17/2008
Andrea	The treatment I have been having is psychotherapy from a psyciatrist, NO DRUGS, that just numbs the body even more, people should stop giving drugs for every little things, just talk therapy, extensive at that, and the personalities will come out. I strongly suggest that if you see someone that suggest medicine, take the door as fast as possible, cause they have no clue what they are talking about, what you need is someone that you can trust, trust enough so that the personalities come out and tell their story, and start integrating. This takes time, for me its been 5 years and still going, but I can see the light at the end. Dont give up hope, find that right person to help you.	3/9/2008
andrea	I have multipersonality and i sure dont agree with alot of the things that you have writen, at least they arent my experiences. It is too long to explain things here, but i would suggest that you do more research on the subject with people that do have it, and remember, no one is alike, we all have our own individual experiences	3/9/2008
john	Hi my name is John Hamilton from Minneola Kansas I would like some more information on Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative Identity disorder. I need a few pamplets if you could help me out e-mail me back please.	3/7/2008
parekhnileshp	Hi Eden, People with such medical condition are just like children ... they don't really know what they are doing and how much it can harm them and people around them! They need special care and love! Just remember the days when you were a child and never knew what's good and what's bad for you ... but your mom had taken care of you and helped you grow young! Today ... whatever you are ... its all because of your mom ... so I would say its a payback time! You should be very careful about her ... take care of her health ... understand that she needs the same level of care which you needed when you were a toddler! Life is always beautiful when you understand that you just don't have to live life for yourself ... but for those who spent their lives for you!!! Hope this will help you! Nilesh Parekh	3/6/2008
Cordell Jamari	Well I say kill her or move out. She really doesn't relieze that she is ruining you so screw her. Leave her to fend for herself...	2/29/2008
Eden	i need help..my mom has DID and she keeps going in and out of the hospital and it hurts me so bad and i get so angry with her because her personalities sometimes are distructiv and she falls alot and hurts herself can anyone give me some advice?	2/28/2008
Ann	this is a well done article by Mr. Parekh it rises awareness of such a disorder that people face	2/28/2008
Cordell Jamari	I agree with Shaniquwa. These people are nutz. I have a boyfriend and he beats me and than doesn't remember that he did it. It really hurtz. I would love to ship him to South Africa and put him in an underground cell and watch him burn!!!! hahahahaha	2/26/2008
shaniquwa pablo	I think that this people are nutty. I have to do this for a school project and I think that these people should be locked away in an underground cell in South Africa. Save us all....	2/26/2008
Emily hill	i agree with timmy	2/22/2008
Timmy Fritz	i think we should all just shut up	2/22/2008
TITUS KIPLAGAT	please tell me the midications available and dosage as soon as possible	2/11/2008
Mel	My friend has DID, he tells me that he has a personality split into four. It's wierd; he'll get angry at one of us and then be one hundred percent normal a minute later. I had my theories about him being bipolar, but he tells me he has "conversations" with them. Any ideas on how to help, aside from treatment with a pshycotherapist? He's deathly afraid of asking for that kind of help.	2/6/2008
christopher	a split personality disorder is when your mind falls apart from it self and you have no control over your actions the way you look at someone you may not like them and you may want to hurt them i have this disorder and i have had it a long time i was about 7 years old when i first went dark a jekyll and hide	2/6/2008
suleeqo	there has been a history	1/31/2008
Beth	Nice article. Some of my personalities are psychotic in that they allow continued abuse. I wonder how long I'll live like this.	1/25/2008
emine	ı am to make a presentation about DID and this was a real good information and source for me... Thank You!	1/3/2008
xxx	this was very informative and well written.	12/21/2007
Jenny H	my boyfriend does and says strange things and a minute later has no clue to what he was saying or doing. He hears voices of both female and male, and he sometimes thinks he has out of body experiences, where he can see his own body laying on the coutch if that is where he is ect. And if he drinks alcohole he gets blank easily and his behavior is scary. He also blames me for things he does. He is a adrenalin junkie, he loves to take risks, and is very rebeliouse, what could this mean, bi polar or multiple personalities	12/18/2007
la bee	as a psychologist and a multiperson (someone with MPD) I can say, you summarize the topic fairly well. Every Multiperson is different and every multiperson funtions at a different level from doctors and lawyers to folks that have trouble making it from day to day because of their struggles. Dissociation is a healthy and natural coping technique for children to use when they are overwhelmed with childhood abuse (the most common cause). however, by the teenage years they should be giving it up for a more sopistocated technique, but they are sort of stuck with the dissociative pattern of coping. Multiple parts are formed on average by age 4. There is research to show that different parts can have different eye glass prescriptions, allergies, blood pressures, and illnesses like diabetes. I’ve known I was a Multiperson for 18 years and treared many Multipeople in my practice and no 2 Multipeople have been alike. My particular area of interest is the interface between multipeople and medicine.	10/19/2007
Amps	V.Good.	10/17/2007
Shay	Since I was nine, I've had this "other me" who would get really aggressive when I got too sad or depressed. We refer to her ask "Dusk" and there are periods of time when she's really active and others when she's quiet. Could this be MPD? Because when I was nine I lost 3 grandparents and my parents got a divorce. I don't remember anything from my gramma's funeral or for at least a month afterwards. Then one day I woke up and called my friends and they refused to talk to me because I had been "the biggest jerk that they'd ever met. I had no recollection of talking to them since before my gramma's funeral. Could this be MPD?	9/28/2007
keisha	i think that this was very easy to use because all of my infomation is all right where i can find	9/14/2007
Ravi	I wanted to know about the Multiple Personality Disorder.. i was not known anything before but hwen i read this i came to know that what is this & how it happens & why it happens & in which case it happens & all the other information about the Multiple Personality Disorder...... I like to thank u the Doctors who hav given the information about this effect..................	9/11/2007
Lorena	It's weird how things may seem. Sometimes I feel like the Lorena everyone thinks I am, then in one hour, I'll be someone 3 years older than me, complete opposite (just like night and day). When I was younger I didn't understand why this was happening to me. Once I took a quiz saying "What personality disorder do you have", and it said DID. I didn't know what that was until I looked it up. The symptoms seem to match mine. This disorder though is very mysterious. Sometimes I DO remember what I did, other times, I don't. So can someone just explain to me more about this, because I refuse to seek medical help if I'm not sure if my symptoms match that much...	8/28/2007
t.w	i dont know if i have this but i hear voices in my head that alwayz condridict what im atually thinking. for example i would say Me: oh he doesnt like me the voice: yeah but other girls didnt get to peirce his ear me: still .. he doesnt like me the voice: maybe he does ... dont be so sure	7/20/2007
shadae	I like this article some of the thing mention in this article i have already know, but some i did not. By reading this article i hope when i become an ER doctor i will be able to treat someone with MPD /DID.	6/29/2007
toyin	this is really scary & its amazing how this works. i don't think people are aware ot MPD in this part of the world. i hope awareness is being done because some of the symptoms i just read describes the behaviour of a friend. thumbs up	5/31/2007
Mary	Is it possible, if there are more than 2 personalites within one person, that two personalities may interact with each other while they are not active? Engage conversation with each other within the persons mind and things like that.	4/28/2007
jasmine	excellent, great help for my projeect!!	4/18/2007
Michelle	Interesting Topic and nice flow in the article	4/5/2007
safia kahn	very good	3/27/2007
lufafa	i like eggs!!!	3/21/2007
Jack Flanders	A word about people who live normal lives with multiple personalities who cooperate and function in an inner community would be helpful. There are many websites about living healthily as multiple.	3/18/2007
Clarette	I LOVE YOU JUSTIN AGUINAGA	2/5/2007
cheesy malizzy	You love your cheese	2/5/2007
Megan	i think people with this disorder really need to get help FAST!!!	1/4/2007
Patty	I would like to know if there is a definitive test to determine if someone has MPD or if they are faking , say for a legal defense or for attention, I know Bilpolar can be proven because there is a change in brain chemistry , but is there one for MPD	12/8/2006
bridgette	umm. i was just kidding. sorry im a jerk.,	11/20/2006
bridgette	i wish i had multiple personalities. maybe i could get out of the exam i am taking next hour...	11/20/2006
Trameka	I think mpd is very fascinating and I plan on writing a book about by the time I turn 15 in 2007	11/19/2006
Scott sheffield	What is it like to have multiple personality disorder.	11/17/2006
ben	sweet yo	11/16/2006
prasad	Hi Nilesh Parekh how can get multiple personality	10/28/2006
prasad	how we can get multiple personality	10/28/2006
prasad	how it will get multiple personalities or how we can get these	10/28/2006
sana	so good keep it up	10/10/2006
Linda	thank you, i'm doing a report on this subject and this really helped me understand what Multiple personality is all about.	10/9/2006
mercedes	yes u have very good information for my repert but u need to put somthing about who first discovered that there was such thing as multiple person disorder. thatnk u very much for your help and good luck on comment	10/6/2006
louise	i was diagnosed as mpd in 1992 by a christian therapist, i attended therapy for 4 years once a week. but i had a nervous breakdown and have suffered with personality problems ever since. and i seem to attract people who show signs of mpd in them. is this normal	10/5/2006
Larry	I had a friend that was an atipical soccer mom, extreamly intelligant, and avery proper decent person to be envolved with both personally, and professionally. After about one year after meeting her, she told me that she was bi-sexual and a nymphomaniac, and that she and her husband were swingers. I could not believe that what she was telling me was true. Then about six months later I visited their home and they bid me to come in during a set up for an internet porn site. They invited me to watch the site and gave me free accsess to the site. She was raised in eastern KY by a self ordained preacher in abject poverty. Could her problem be MPD? She seems very happy with her situation. She insist on sending her 4 children to Catholic school. Can she be helped??	10/5/2006
Tanya	It is a really good and helpful information. I had to do the research for my school project and this information ws really helpful. Thank You!	10/4/2006
Tanya	It is a really good and helpful information. Thank You!	10/4/2006
lee	i have it but i think its kinda fun it makes life more interesting although there is some problems with it all in all im doin ok	9/12/2006
Bhagya Raju	Multiple personality disorder is quiet amazing . the person suffering from the multiple personality disorder even doesnt know about .	9/5/2006
pooja	very well written i liked it very much	8/30/2006
shari	hi, my name is shari,, and my bf acts off all the time one minute he is rob and then the next minute he is this nice sweet bobby. rob is mean and constanlt complains but bobby is so caring and does everything for me... could this be multiple personality disorder? what can i do to help?	8/29/2006
Jacquelyn	MPD is not about "seeing" thing..it's about being seperate from your core self. If you see other people and talk back and forth to them..that is another disorder, and medication can help. Depression can also make you forget or lose time and if your depression carries on so long and hinders your memory medication can help that also..teenagers also have alot of changes going on because they are stressed and pressured and hormones are flying..MPD symptoms start at age 3 and continue on. The trauma usually has to occur before age 5 but most likely before age 3 for the child to spit off personalities..so teenagers..don't sweat you feelings..you may just be stressed so go and talk to someone you trust.	8/8/2006
Jacquelyn	If you want to read a book..read A Mind Of My Own by Chris Sizemore..she is the "Three Faces of Eve" if you know that movie and it's about her intergrating and becoming one personality.	8/8/2006
Jacquelyn	A good article..nothing negative. I'm a Multiple and I appreciate that.	8/8/2006
Rabbit	nice article. I've recently become very interested in the symptoms of MPD, and have been reading much about it. I've noticed that one of the most common things that runs through peoples mind's when they hear about the symptoms of MPD is that they fit most of the description. People need to be warned that MPD is a lot rarer than they think, and that not every person who shows even almost all the symtoms is MPD. Several students in my class have also been learning about this disease, and several of them have come forward to me to tell me that they believe that they might have it. More needs to be posted on the misdiagnosis of this disease, and not just the symptoms	7/27/2006
annonymose	im only 14 but i think i may be developing this symptoms how can i be sure that have this?	7/24/2006
duncan	i have alot of those symptons, but not mpd yet	7/21/2006
	Hi Frank, I really think that you do not have this problem. Children at your age do feel that they are really stressed, but truly speaking its not going to turn into multiple personality disorder, BELIEVE ME! If you think that you are suffering from it, just consult your parents as they are nearest to you and may understand the situation and help you find out right solution. If you ask me for my advice ... I would just say that this disorder can be avoided if you stay happy, calm and have lots of friends. Behave properly with your parents and people you meet and you will see that you are a part of society and not someone who's sufferring from this disorder! Hope this helps! Regards, Nilesh Parekh	7/14/2006
Frank	i have pretty much all of the symtoms im 13 as u get older does it go away im saying if i do have it i would like to know??? Thank You	7/14/2006
Tiffany	Good	6/7/2006
INeedHelp	Im fifteen years old and recentley have been feeling very depressed. I can't remember what I do for weeks at a time, and all of my friends say that I have been acting "off" lately. I was reading your article and thought that I could possibley have this. Where can I go to get "diagnosed"?	6/6/2006
Hashita	This is the best article ever	5/10/2006
mel	i think its crazy how can u can have thousand ppl in ur head	4/28/2006
Rachel	I think this was a good article. It said just the straight facts about the disorder and did not drag on about unimportant things.	3/30/2006
Lisa	Wow, this is such a sad disorder. Not that any disorder is pleasant but... I wish everyone that has this the best of luck. Hope you guys can do something to cure it, maybe hypnotism.	3/12/2006
SafePasage	I am living proof that MPD does exist. With 14 years of sexual abuse with people and with animals. We are still here and surviving.	1/29/2006
Ron Goodrick	Hi, Very interesting comments on mpd. I know there's plenty of sceptical comment out there, but I've been living in a sort of psychotic environment so I'd like to throw a few observations into the ring for your comments. I'm wondering if there is any recogntion of less vigorous signs and symptoms than those mentioned and still be DID? After some 10 years of observing the behaviour of my (now ex) 2nd wife, in which she displayed a variety of inconsistent patterns. These behaviours weren't particularly overt, and it was only if there was some pressure happening that it became really obvious. Overall, it appeared that she lived in some world that was "almost" real, but never quite made it, like some sort of "fantasy" version of what the real world is like. I noticed that when the stress levels on her were up, I would see a child like fear response, then an aggressive persona or 2 would strike back. There would be claims of harrassment etc etc, and a very strong case of "victim mentality" would come to the fore. When things were okay, I still had the feeling that the person who was there was only an actress, and not doing a particularly good job of it, and likely to fold at the first sign of pressure. I have come to the conclusion that the primary person was still trapped in her childhood, with at least 2 "protectors" or "defenders", who may or may not have been entities from another realm, who were able to mimic her. They were certainly not in keeping with the "child", and were quite ugly forms. And, finally the actress to appear to be in the Here and now. The day to day inconsistent behaviour seems to be the best giveaway to some form of disorder. I sort of wondered how I came to be here, but on closer analysis, i realised that my first wife displayed the same inconsistent behaviour, as did my mother, who was definitely problem ridden. So presumably I was used to that warped environment, and subconsciencely replicated it. Mind you, I suspect that there may have been these other identities in my life too, but I have been doing a lot of dealing in the spiritual realm, and I know that Jesus has been removing them. Maybe that's why I can now see them in other people, when I couldn't see them before. Have you had any experience with this relatively low key manifestation?	10/8/2005
aroura	can a mpd patient work likie every other person?	9/8/2005
amanda williams	hi my name is amanda and i would like to say that i see people whom no one else can see and i just wondered if this could be DIDand i talk to them as well and they talk back	8/11/2005
horsewhisper	i have suffered from depersonalization sence i was very little. i hoping some can tell me if the thrype emdr will work for me	6/24/2005
Johnathan Garre	what if i have these symptoms waht should i do	6/17/2005
Jayne	i recently found out that one of my good friends has DID and the only way he can control it is if his other friend is there to snap him out of it, it has begun to get worse but he cant go to his parents because they will lock him up and they wont understand, i worry deeply about him and i just dont know what i can do to help, if you have any advise or thoughts please post them....Thank You	3/13/2005
	"When Rabbit Howls" is another good book. It is a much more accurate read than "Sybil". aasha, what are you wanting to know? God Bless.	12/27/2004
Holly	Wow this is incredible. I'm reading the book Sybil from back in the early 20's and i've become really interested in working with people that have this disorder.	11/21/2004
aasha	I think that you need to tell me more about this disorder	11/16/2004
	Hi Joanne, DID takes some time to develop into full-fledged disorder which others can notice, but till that time the person may show symptoms such as: anxiety, unknown fear, missing a chunk of memory, a change in behavior: most of them are sudden changes (and also are momentary) etc. and they do vary from patient to patient. But the problem with all these symptoms is that, all the symptoms also represent some other mental diseases which are common-place, so even if you feel like it is very easy to tell if a person has developed DID, you might make a mistake in diagnosing it. If you feel like your daughter has developed DID, please do get her checked from a good doctor, there are possibilities that she is not suffering from DID but undergoing normal changes which we all undergo with aging.	10/9/2004
joanne	why is this illness misdiagnosised? It sounds like it is very easy to tell if a person has DID. What are some of the early symptoms of this disorder? I think it may be possible my daughter has this. She cerntainly has something.	10/7/2004

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