Personality Disorders

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Multiple Personality Disorder is: More than One Personality in one body. Therapists say there could be over

hundreds of personalities in one body. May show themselves as different people,

with age, language ,sex.

Symptoms of Personality Disorder Alters may resemble each other or be unique Can have its own Gestures, postures. Distinct way of dressing talking Personalities can Be similar or complete

opposite Must Not be an affect of drug abuse or head

trauma. May think they have amnesia but they have this

disease

Diagnosis (How Is It Diagnosed) Series of tests are taken, mental health

evaluations Many different physical scans to eliminate

similar conditions. Amnesia is a common symptom ,many people

reports lost of time and memory of certain events.

Those Affected (Age Groups,Gender,Race)

A Typical MPD patient is a women. A victim of child abuse (especially sexual abuse)

A persons whose symptoms are very similar to psychiatric disorders.

And A person who is very defensive

Causes Extreme stresses, extreme pains Emotional traumas Terrible youth experiences (it usually is

caused in a younger generation) The patients mind usually separates

personalities to cope with the extreme terror they experienced/saw.

Treatment Psychotherapy twice weekly is a very

effective management of MPD or DID Half of all patients treated may require

additional hospitalization Lasts an avg. of four years

Getting Help Albert Chen Md., 361 Water St., Elmira, NY John Keller Md., 555E Market St. Corning,

NY Venkata Satti Md., 100 Washington St.,

Elmira, NY

Related/Interesting info A woman that had 22 personalities was recounted

in 1957 in a movie staring Joanne Woodward and in a book by Corbett Thigpen, both titled the Three Faces of Eve. Twenty years later, in 1977, Caroline Sizemore, the 22nd personality to be shown in "Eve," described her experiences in a book titled I'm Eve. Although the woman known as "Eve" developed a total of 22 personalities, only three could exist at one time—for a new one to show, an already existing personality would "die."

More info One of the main symptoms of DID is a loss of time

or memory where in the person with DID cannot remember significant chunks of time in their lives, this is due to the dominance of a different personality during the missing time. One of the Hillside Strangler serial killers, Kenneth Bianchi, faked having DID in order to use the insanity plea during his trial, he was discovered to be a fake and he plead guilty to 5 charges of murder

EVEN more info Multiple Personality disorder was 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

VIDEO!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-B0_m

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