Multiple Personality Disorder

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We’ve all experienced the feeling that we’ve moved into a different life, dissociation from reality, just mild like when we daydream, delve into a good book or become engrossed with a project. But then after that, we do still come back to reality. However, some people are diagnosed with a dissociative identity disorder or the popular multiple personality disorder (MPD). This differ from mild dissociation that all of us commonly experience. People who have this live a fairly complicated life. Sadly, people who have this experience traumatic physical, sexual or emotional abuse during their childhood. MPD is a severed form of dissociation from reality in which it reflects a person’s extreme lack of connectivity to the world he is in today with regard to his identity, thoughts, feelings and actions. Because of what he or she went through at one phase of his or her life, this person literally dissociates himself from a situation that posed significant threat on them as a coping mechanism. Even with this analysis of the disorder, experts are even still at times confused with several aspects of it, and even wonder if the disorder is real. A person with MPD is often deemed to have two or even more distinct and split personalities that simultaneously have effect on their behavior. Sometimes it seems like there are two are persons continually emerging on one body, which is aside from being sad, is really scary as well. Because of having too many persona as we can call it, the person have an inability to recall personal information that borders on being weird because it is an information he as the owner should know, and is too extreme to be just forgetfulness (WebMd). Memories vary as series of fluctuations in person’s personality take place. Personality in this sense involves the entire package: age, sex or race. So a person with MPD cans be a 6-yr old and a 42 year old simultaneously. Furthermore, the alternations can even sometimes be between imaginary...
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