Transcript Personality Disorders - MrsVeseysTAEMentalDisorders

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.
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
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.
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

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.
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
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
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."
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
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
VIDEO!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB0_m6fW94