A Split Personality: The Cause and Effects of Multiple Personality Disorder

A well-known girl with multiple personalities is one of many victims of this diagnosis. Many psychiatrist studied her behaviors, and learned from the documented history of her behaviors.

I found both women stories remarkable so I decided to write about both. Did you know that a person could have ninty-two personalities? Well the first woman I am introducing is a remarkable story of someone who did. Her name is Truddi Chase. Truddi Chase was born on February 22,1935 near Rochester, NY. During the time of her childhood, she was physically and sexually abused. It makes me wonder if the abuse was the cause of her Multiple Personality Disorders. Sometimes tragic events lead people to lose themselves. In spite of everything, she seemed to have made it out alright. Truddi began an author. One of her books in particular was When Rabbit Howls. It was about her experiences with having multiple personalities. She also appeared on Oprah where she told her life's story. I find that inspring because not a lot of people can say that. Many people drown in their despair but she chose the latter.

Answer: Dissociative Identity Disorder (King, 2016); consists of having multiple personalities and wall of amnesia

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.

Multiple Personality Disorder is a condition that many people probably have not heard of. Among those who have heard of it, there are even less who actually know what it is. However, according to Piper (1997) there were about 6,000 cases diagnosed in North America alone in 1986. Some experts estimate that multiple personality disorder, or MPD, affects 5 to 10 percent of the population, or about 100 million people worldwide. For such a widespread disorder, the public's lack of knowledge about it is pretty shocking. One explanation for this lack of knowledge could be the fact that many people, fueled by the beliefs of many noted psychologists, do not believe the

When she said that, something inside of me made me just snap. I charged at her fast and hard taking her down to the ground. In that moment of panic, I slammed her head into the floor over and over again until I had felt her head split open and felt her last breath leave her body. What have I done? I stood up, it was me, I killed Olivia and Kaylee and now Paisley. I don’t understand how I could’ve killed them though, it just wasn’t like me at all. I was thinking about going to jail and I just couldn’t, there is no way I would be able to survive that place. Now the cops have arrived and I had no clue where to go. I just knew that I could never let them catch me. I bolted out of the back door and ran as fast as I could. I never turned my back until I knew that I was long gone from that place. Once I had finally stopped to catch my breath, something made absolute and complete sense now.

     Sometimes people undergo traumatic experiences in their lives that are either physical or mental and maybe even a combination of both. If the experience was so intense, and so horrible, that the mind didn’t want to remember it, or possibly didn’t know how to deal or cope with it, then that one experience has the power to split a person’s mind into “another personality”. If this happens, the other personality or personalities come out when a person who has MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) is put in a situation that he/she doesn’t know how to handle or feels that the other personality can handle it better. People suffering from MPD also have the risk of developing some

What are the most common treatments for the condition? How long have these treatments been in use? Are they newer advances or older

On January 20th 2017, a movie named Split came into theatre’s. The film is about a man named Kevin who has 23 personalities. This film was meant to demonstrate dissociative identity disorder. The film demonstrates Kevin as a middle age man majority of the time, who is very polite and horrified about what his other personalities do. Some of his other personalities take over sometimes such as Dennis who at the time was the person who abducts the girls. Other personality is Hedwig who is a nine-year-old boy and Patricia who is seen to be very cold and precise. In this film psychiatrist Dr. Fletcher is a key component who stays submerged in Kevin because he has introduced all 23 personalities to her. The film starts out with the introduction

On January 20, Split, a film centralized on three girls attempting to escape from Kevin Wendell Crumb’s 23 split personalities, was released in theaters. Kevin Crumb suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID). Dissociative Identity Disorder, commonly known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental illness that creates one or more personalities within one individual. The disorder also pairs with memory loss, therefore, the individual is sometimes incapable of realizing their multiple personalities. Normally, the disorder arises from some form of trauma during childhood.

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a severe condition in which a person has two or more distinct identities or personality states. This disorder can take control of an individual. MPD is a disorder characterized by identity fragmentation rather than a development of separate personalities. The disturbance is not due to the direct psychological effects of a substance or of a general medical condition (Dissociative Identity Disorder). This once rarely reported disorder has become more common. MPD reflects a failure to combine various aspects of identity, memory and consciousness in a single two-dimensional self. Usually, the primary identity carries the individual's given name

Dissociative Identity Disorder, commonly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder, exists as a bizarre mental disorder in which a person acquires two

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5, American Psychiatric Association, 2013) defines personality disorders as a pattern of internal experience and behavior that greatly differs from what is normally expected in the person’s culture. They are also considered omnipresent and inflexible that is stable and causes both distress and impairment. Antisocial personality disorder is a severe disorder of personality. It is a disorder that helps compromise the dramatic, emotional, or erratic disorders, also known as the Cluster B disorders. The Cluster B disorders are also composed of borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and histrionic personality disorder. The

The movie Sybil was a gut wrenching hard to watch film for me. It was emotional and very descriptive. It described the first recorded case of multiple personality disorder. The main character, Sybil, was being treated by, Dr. Wilber. During the first session, the viewer, could already see a major difference in the personalities of the patient. As the sessions proceeded, Dr.Wilber gained rapport with the many other personalities that inhabited Sybil. This movie was fascinating to watch and very enjoyable. Being a woman, and watching this was eye opening to say the least. The fact that even as a doctor, Dr. Wilber, struggled to convince others that what her patient had was real and not imagined or coerced.

Sybil, a young lady abused by her mother as a little girl grew up to have multiple personalities. This disorder is known as Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID). Dissociative Identity Disorder caused Sybil to blackout and become an entirely different person. She had a total of 16 personalities within her but some were more dominant than others. There are many ways to treat DID: psychoanalytic treatment or humanistic treatment.