Transcript Personality Disorders - MrsVeseysTAEMentalDisorders

Personality
Disorders
Brent G,Mikey P, Sarah B
Multiple Personality Disorder is:
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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.
Symptoms of Personality Disorder
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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
Diagnosis (How Is It Diagnosed)
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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.
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
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