Narrative Essay On Multiple Personality Disorder

I sat on the table covered in all too familiar low grade tissue paper that everyone recognizes from their yearly physical check ups. I despise being at the doctor's office, but I needed to figure out what all these panic attacks meant. I remember feeling foolish going to the doctor for such a thing. It was embarrassing to think I had some sort of issue that I couldn’t contain. After running through a long list of fixed questions such as: “Does your breathing increase? Yes. Do your extremities go numb? Yes. Can you feel the attacks coming on? Sometimes.” etc.

Recently I have been stressed out due to multiple reasons like my children and my academic performance in school.I have never experienced any form of anxiety until I started school.My anxiety has led to other issues like depression.My judgment has also been cloudy lately. I've been lethargic and very irritable, and my stresses came to a boiling point for me when I opened my grade book for a course and seen that my grade had been dropped to a C and this preceded some news from my child's school that my oldest was bullying my youngest,this led my youngest to suicidal thoughts and in turn a teacher called CPS on me.Essentially, all my stress caught up to me.I contacted my counselor, and she advised me to call the crisis hotline due to some other

It’s a struggle to get out of bed sometimes, I often just sit there struggling to comprehend the sequence of events which have taken place over the past year. I mean, I’m used to this now, its normal to me, but the fact that this has happened and that I am now ‘disabled’ as people would put it is hard to get my head around. And every time I look down I’m reminded of the pain and the struggle I faced, it’s a physical scar which links me to my grueling past, a physical and emotional journey.

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

No one considered that Schizophrenia was the ailment that tormented my brother. We assumed it was just stress and anxiety that stole his nights, his sanity, and his joy. We all believed that it was just a phase my happy, go-lucky, comic brother would get over. After all, doesn't everybody go through these rough patches of their life, and like a phoenix tried through a fire, rise triumphantly? That was my hope for my brother. But as the days progressed, fatigue mixed with delusions consumed my brother’s thoughts and disrupted his ability to function. As a sister, I felt helpless watching my big brother, my hero, and my confidant going through the greatest battle of his life - mental illness. Episodes and psychiatric breakdowns were constant,

I can relate to what you expressed about your son being assessed for ADD symptoms. My son experienced the same situation when he was in first grade. Unfortunately, he lost his father from a sudden death and he was present when we found him. After his dad’s death, he started acting out and his teacher suggested to have him tested for ADHD disorder. Not knowing any better I had him tested, and the Dr. said he does not have ADHD. I took him to counseling at seven years old and he wouldn’t cooperate with the counselor so, we discontinued his therapy. His behavior continues and now the school was suggesting he has a learning disability; he was tested and he was given a IEP for school. Now he is entering middle school and the subject is brought up

I was 21 now and I’d been hiding out at julia’s house for years now. I had a job and a child. For a long time i had been doing things on my own. I couldn’t live with my grandparents and face the fact they were the reason why my mother killed herself. At home someone kept knocking on the doors at night but we never knew who it

They look at me and see this horrible monster. Unfortunately, they’re right. I am a monster. I..I don’t want to be a monster. I do all that I can to try to make up for what happened, but it’s so damn hard.. I like believe that it’s not my fault. From the moment I turned three years old, I became my mom and dad’s little experiment. They were both scientists, but they never left their work when they clocked out. They’d… They’d inject me and my little sister with chemicals they stole almost everyday. I never really knew what they were doing to me, but.. I knew that it made me feel awful. My sister died when I was 14, and that’s when my parents were arrested. I ended up living with a newly married couple. The drugs and chemicals inside of me influenced me to lose control, so I..uh, I raped and murdered the man’s wife. I got away with more after that.. It was a town mystery until someone put the piece together. I later found out that the chemicals didn’t last as long as I’d thought, and what I’d done was what my body had been used to doing..I wish they would’ve just killed me instead of sending me here, but I guess they did what would torture me the

"Don’t you just love happy endings" a voice says directly behind me. I turn and I kick at the killer and he gets thrown off balance. I dive into him and my gun clatters away and me and the killer fight for control of the knife. I push the killer off and scramble for my gun. I almost get there but the killer pins me and tries to push the knife down. I barely reach my gun and pull it towards him and pull the trigger. I run out to my car and radio in for an ambulance and tell the station that I got the killer. A week later I watch them bury amber and vow to bring justice to this

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

“Welcome to Westdel Psychiatric Ward”; the sign was illuminated from my headlights, for it was only the break of dawn. I found my parking spot, pulled in, and turned off the car. I was a little bit early for my morning shift, but I planned on getting a head start for the day, plus a new patient had checked in.

One in every seventeen people in America suffers from a mental disorder. These disorders inhibit the afflicted person from functioning properly and coping normally with daily life. Many afflicted with a psychological disorder do not exhibit obvious symptoms, as medical advancements have made it possible for these disorders to be suppressed or even nonexistent. Today, however, harsh stigmas exist that unfairly categorize those with a mental illness as violent, unfriendly, and abnormal. The media and federal government are culprits in fabricating the unrealistic depictions of mental disability that define the portrayal of those who are mentally or psychologically disadvantaged.

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

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