Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

A person who has at least one alter personality that controls behavior is considered mentally sick. This psychiatric disorder is called multiple personality disorder, and it consists in having consciousness divided into different “alters”, or personalities. The person that is affected can do many things while being in a state, but this person won´t remembers its actions as soon as he changes its personality. This disease affects mostly, people with traumatic experiences, that unconscious built this other personalities to keep apart the pain, and to avoid accepting their real emotions.

Symptoms and diagnosis

 People with MPD lose their memory, they don’t
remember anything done while they were in certain state.


 The patient feels like he hasn’t control of their own body,
as they were outside of it, sometimes they feel that their body
is changing, but they cannot do anything to stop it.

 People start feeling that what they are seeing isn’t real.

 People without the disease might see that during stressful situations the person affected changes its personality.

Treatment
The treatment can last months or years and there are different methods to proceed, psychotherapy and hypnosis.
On one hand we have the psychotherapy that is used to improve the condition of the patient with his help, this way doctors can prescript a type of medication that changes during therapy, and by this method also, the medic can check in the development of the person that is receiving the treatment.
On the other hand we have hypnosis, that Is really common in this type of treatments because is the way doctors can search for the roots of the problem and start to work about it in therapy.

The real personality of a person
can die, and the body will keep
working with the other ones that
he has left.

The Multiple Personality disorder in the television:
There are some TV shows and movies about people with this disorder. We can take as an example United States of Tara, this series is about a housewife who has this disorder, how this affects the whole family, and how she tries to find a balance between her different personalities.




http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/9-24-2004-59666.asp
http://www.skepdic.com/mpd.html