Multiple personality disorders
Multiple personality disordersMany psychologists worldwide are trying to find a cure for psychological problems faced by multiple personalities. Some personality disorders may vary. Adults may act like children, children may act out in violence, and some individuals just have split personalities. Multiple personality disorder is not easily defined, leads to social problems, and is not easily treated.
Multiple personality disorder is an extremely rare mental condition in which two or more independent and distinct personalities develop in the same individual. With this disorder different personalities can inhabit the individuals mind for a sporadic period of time. Whereby, an alternate personality can be completely different from the original personality. Such things as temperament, outlook, handwriting and bodily gestures will usually vary. Even the name of the individual will generally change when a personality switch occurs. When a personality switch does occur, the subject's thoughts, feelings and memories are split from the conscious' awareness and control. The condition usually develops as a way of coping with painful and disturbing experiences faced in the individuals early life, such as child abuse, or if an extremely violent act has traumatized the person.
Many personality disorders like Multiple Personality Disorder lead to various social problems. According to psychologist, these traits usually arise when the individual is in early childhood, around the age of eight years old. Multiple Personality Disorder is able to happen by a means called Dissociation. In psychological terms Dissociation means " that a person mentally distances themselves from traumatic situations or emotional distress." By using Dissociation, a child can mentally remove themselves from frightening and physically painful experiences. For instance, if a young child is being physically or sexually abused by someone they have learned to love and trust, they can't comprehend why that person is hurting them in such a manor. The child's emotions are confused, feeling both pain and pleasure, and since the child is so young he or she doesn't know what to do. So the child goes somewhere safe inside their mind by Dissociation, and the mind creates an alternate personality to deal with the abuse. The more abuse a child encounters, the more personalities he/she may have, leading to numerous social problems in the future. Alcoholism and a chance of being hospitalized or institutionalized because the person is displaying self-destructive behavior, are some of these problems.
Even though cases of Multiple Personality Disorder haven't been too abundant, there are few people who have actually been cured of it. The overall agenda is to integrate the personalities back into a single, unified personality by arousing the traumatic experiences to the conscious awareness and defusing it. Most people with the disorder that haven't been cured learn to live normal lives to a certain extent.
Although Multiple Personality Disorder is not easily defined, leads to social problems, and is not easily treated, many lawyers, physicians, senators, congressmen, corporate executives, and even psychotherapists can be the victims of this particular disorder. Consequently, with this disorder their lives do not stop and they live a somewhat normal life. Moreover, raising families like anyone else.