Multiple Personality Disorders: Living With Unwanted Roommates
I love a good mystery, especially one that I might be able to solve, or at least come up with my own theory, and Multiple Personality Disorders or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) are perfect for what I’m looking for. What is it exactly? What causes it? How do we treat and classify it? Are there any specific type of people that get it? How rare is it? All these questions and not a clear answer to one. Science couldn’t answer these questions, but I’m up for the challenge. I have motivation that I will find an answer, or at least one I’m happy and confident in.
Since not a whole lot of people come out openly to the public, our knowledge of what it truly is hasn’t come…show more content… Individuals may report that their bodies feel different (e.g., like a small child, opposite gender)” (American Psychiatric Association 293). Almost everything about them changes, except for their physical body, at least to us that is. To them they reported feeling like their own body isn’t theirs; like they’re watching from a distance. Some of the personalities might be people that already existed. For example, someone that died many years beforehand could take on a roll, or manifest itself into the host’s life thus becoming one of the alter--personalities.
Some psychologists believe that this isn’t real at all. For instance, they believe that the popular icon Sybil, was being “persuaded”, to form her personalities. “One is the physicians involved in Sybil’s treatment has stated that Sybil did not suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder but instead was simply a highly suggestible woman in whom the symptoms were planted” (Miller & Kantriwitz). This is not to say that all accounts of DID are fake, in fact Sybil’s case might still be plausible, but unfortunately she died in 1998, so we may never know the true…show more content… Walters said. This I had not known, in fact I was shocked to hear this. I assumed that after she became public, more people that had it would come out, not tons of people would get diagnosed. Diagnosis is one thing, but treatment is another. And according to Walters, the known solutions were “talk therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and drugs.” Since there haven't been many people that’ve come out, we don’t have tons of solutions. He also said that Multiple Personality Disorders aren’t diagnosed out of the US. I don’t remember the reason he gave, or if he had one, but I don’t remember what the reason was or if he even gave one, but I wasn’t surprised to hear this. In some countries they believe that it is “possession,” so they wouldn’t diagnose it as a disorder. All in all DID has become more of an issue that psychologists are looking in to, and although some research has been done, we still don’t have enough to come up with a cure that works 100% of the
