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Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders. Brent G,Mikey P, Sarah B. Multiple Personality Disorder is:. More than One Personality in one body. Therapists say there could be over hundreds of personalities in one body. May show themselves as different people, with age, language ,sex.

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Personality Disorders

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  1. Personality Disorders Brent G,Mikey P, Sarah B

  2. Multiple Personality Disorder is: • More than One Personality in one body. • Therapists say there could be over hundreds of personalities in one body. • May show themselves as different people, with age, language ,sex.

  3. Symptoms of Personality Disorder • Alters may resemble each other or be unique • Can have its own Gestures, postures. • Distinct way of dressing talking • Personalities can Be similar or complete opposite • Must Not be an affect of drug abuse or head trauma. • May think they have amnesia but they have this disease

  4. Diagnosis (How Is It Diagnosed) • Series of tests are taken, mental health evaluations • Many different physical scans to eliminate similar conditions. • Amnesia is a common symptom ,many people reports lost of time and memory of certain events.

  5. Those Affected (Age Groups,Gender,Race) • A Typical MPD patient is a women. • A victim of child abuse (especially sexual abuse) • A persons whose symptoms are very similar to psychiatric disorders. • And A person who is very defensive

  6. Causes • Extreme stresses, extreme pains • Emotional traumas • Terrible youth experiences (it usually is caused in a younger generation) • The patients mind usually separates personalities to cope with the extreme terror they experienced/saw.

  7. Treatment • Psychotherapy twice weekly is a very effective management of MPD or DID • Half of all patients treated may require additional hospitalization • Lasts an avg. of four years

  8. Getting Help • Albert Chen Md., 361 Water St., Elmira, NY • John Keller Md., 555E Market St. Corning, NY • Venkata Satti Md., 100 Washington St., Elmira, NY

  9. Related/Interesting info • A woman that had 22 personalities was recounted in 1957 in a movie staring Joanne Woodward and in a book by Corbett Thigpen, both titled the Three Faces of Eve. Twenty years later, in 1977, Caroline Sizemore, the 22nd personality to be shown in "Eve," described her experiences in a book titled I'm Eve. Although the woman known as "Eve" developed a total of 22 personalities, only three could exist at one time—for a new one to show, an already existing personality would "die."

  10. More info • One of the main symptoms of DID is a loss of time or memory where in the person with DID cannot remember significant chunks of time in their lives, this is due to the dominance of a different personality during the missing time. One of the Hillside Strangler serial killers, Kenneth Bianchi, faked having DID in order to use the insanity plea during his trial, he was discovered to be a fake and he plead guilty to 5 charges of murder

  11. EVEN more info • Multiple Personality disorder was brought more to public awareness by The Three Faces of Eve (1957), a movie based on the true story of a pristine housewife who was diagnosed with MPD when she couldn't explain why she would suddenly become a very sexual person and not remember it. The eighties and the nineties brought on what was seen as an over diagnosis of MPD

  12. VIDEO!!!! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-B0_m6fW94

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