Knowing about Multiple Personality Disorder
by Abinaya
Updated Mar 28, 2024
Multiple Personality Disorder
Multiple Personality Disorder is one of the complicated health conditions caused by many things we come across. This disorder is mainly caused by very severe trauma that we might have experienced during our childhood which may include very extreme level trauma, and moderate level trauma which can be either physical or even mental abuse that causes more emotions in people. The condition that people face is also called split personality disorder.
Now the term Multiple Personality Disorder is called Dissociative Identity Disorder in medical terms. Dissociative Identity Disorder in short form, DID is a feeling of getting disconnected or a mental process that causes a lack of remembering your past thoughts, feelings, and actions. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a condition in which you tend to disconnect from yourself, in situations that affect you, and that can be also sensitive at times. When you have Multiple Personality Disorder then you will feel like having, two or more separate identities
Famous people with multiple personality disorder
1. Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr, the comedian, shared with ABC News in 1994 that she has multiple personality disorder. She explained the challenge of switching between her seven different personalities, naming two of them 'Somebody' and 'Nobody'.
2. Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe is believed to have had a condition called dissociative identity disorder, which means she had different personalities. People think this because when you look at her life, it seems like she had at least 5 out of 9 symptoms of this disorder. These symptoms include having trouble knowing who she really was and trying really hard to avoid feeling like people were leaving her, even if they weren't.
3. Lady Gaga
Starting with Lady Gaga, perhaps she's really imaginative and enjoys creating different characters like Jo Calderone. However, according to Celebzen, some experts think Lady Gaga might have Multiple Personality Disorder.
4. Hershel Walker
Hershel Walker, who won the Heisman Trophy, played pro football, and was an Olympian, shared in his book Breaking Free that he has dissociative identity disorder. He said he only found out about it around 10 years ago. Walker explained to CNN that his life felt chaotic—he wasn't happy, felt very sad and angry, and didn't know why.
5. Adam Duritz
Hershel Walker, a famous singer from the band Counting Crows, talked about how he developed a type of mental disorder called dissociative disorder. He described feeling like the world around him wasn't real and that events didn't seem to be happening. He said it's difficult to explain, but it makes him feel disconnected and uncaring because everything feels like it's just in his imagination.
Causes
Multiple Personality Disorder is caused due to stress and difficult situations, people face from their early childhood. This can happen when children face emotional neglect or abuse, which can mess with how their personality develops. Many people who have DID have been through tough and even dangerous situations, often when they were very young, sometimes before they turned 6. Dissociation, which is when someone feels disconnected from their thoughts or feelings, can also happen because of ongoing neglect or emotional abuse, even if there wasn't any physical or sexual abuse involved.
According to research, it suggests that when parents are strict or not predictable, their children might develop this disorder.It only affects about 1% of the population, and it's more common in women than men.
Symptoms
DID means having different personalities that control your behavior and memory loss of important information. These personalities can have different ages, genders, or even be animals, and they might switch control suddenly or gradually. Symptoms can include headaches, memory loss, and feeling disconnected from your body. Some people with DID might harm themselves or others and feel compelled to do things they wouldn't normally do, like reckless driving or stealing money.
Treatment might involve hypnosis, where different personalities may respond to the therapist. It's important to seek help if you're experiencing symptoms of DID, as it can impact your daily life and relationships.
Treatment
The main treatment for this is talking with a therapist. Therapy helps people manage their dissociative disorder and its symptoms. The aim is to bring together the different parts of a person's identity. Therapy can be tough because it involves remembering and dealing with difficult past experiences.
A person know on having Multiple Personality Disorder
No, people with Multiple Personality Disorder don’t know if they have it. Multiple Personality is a condition, in which where a person can not be the same as he/she was before because the person starts to lose his normal thoughts, memories, and how he was. So, the Multiple Personality Disorder term is now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, in which the the person may even lose their normal nature and even not recognize their known people.
So, during this situation, the person having this disorder may not know they have this disorder. During this time, people may get many flashbacks of amnesia, or time loss. Then, the specific person having this may also forget specific period events, of their lives. This condition may also include many events, where they meet different people, who they don't even recognize, and may end up in some random place that they don't even remember how they reached up there
