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What are the dangers of multiple personality?
The biggest danger of Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder) is having one or more personalities unaware of other personalities and their actions. People with DID cannot recall important personal information. This is not due to forgetfulness or traumatic brain injury. If one or more of the personalities are aggressive and/or hostile, this can cause anything from embarrassment to imprisonment for the other personalities. Frequent gaps in memory occur, both for recent and past memory. There may be visual or auditory hallucinations. One personality may "wake up" and not recall where he/she is or how he/she got there. Other disorders may occur in conjunction with DID. PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) occurs in quite a few people with DID. Other disorders may include Mood Disorder, Substance-Related Disorder, Sexual Disorder, Eating Disorder, Sleep Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Is amnesia a personality disorder?
No, amnesia is not a personality disorder. Amnesia is a loss of memory, often caused by physical damage to the brain, psychological trauma, or other factors, while personality disorders involve long-standing patterns of behavior that deviate from cultural norms.
What is demantia?
It is dementia not demetia. Dementia means a mental disorder marked by memory failures, personality changes and impaired reasoning.
What does multiple identity mean?
Dissociative identity disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring identities or dissociated personality states that alternately show in a person's behavior, accompanied by memory impairment for important information not explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
Compare borderline personality disorder and dissociative personality disoreder?
Borderline personality disorder is a person with sudden mood swings, self distructive behavior and very manipulative. Dependent personality disorder is to be fully dependent on a person and to literally focus your life around that person. People with borderline personality disorder (bpd) fear separation as much as people with dependent personality disorder. However, the bpd individual has more "unstable patterns of social relationships". They go from feelings of extreme love and admiration towards loved ones, (which is considered idealization), to the opposite extreme of intense anger and dislike, (termed devaluation). Specifically, one minute, those with bpd are able to form an intense attachment to someone. The next minute, when something happens like a separation the bpd individual believes the other person doesn't care, and loses trust. Responding by rejecting before being rejected, yet still not wanting to be alone. In short, those with a dependent personality disorder could not even fathom the thought of losing someone. Rejection for them is not an option. In fact, these people are known to do whatever it takes to keep whoever they are depended on in their lives, even if it hurts them to do so. Both personality disorders are more common in women than men.
Is Borderline personality disorder and Multiple personality disorder the same?
No. Personality disorders are those disorders which severely and negatively affect relating to other people - such as attatchment disorders or behavior disorders. The person with one of these disorders can harm, directly or indirectly, those around them. They come in three subtypes: Odd or eccentric behavior [schizoid, paranoid, schizotypal] Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior [antisocial, borderline, narcissistic] Anxious fearful behavior. [Avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive]. Almost everyone has a few negative traits that fall under one or more personality disorder categories - fear of criticism, fear of rejection, fear of looking foolish, daydreaming over action, isolation, chronic boredom, or excessive dependency, etc. It is when severe negative traits of the same type cluster together that a personality disorder is diagnosed. Multiple Personality Disorder, more properly known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, is a diagnosis handed out due to the following criteria: 1) At least two dissociative and lasting personality states must alternatily control a persons behavior 2) Impairment of the ability to recall personal information, or other memory lossy loss must occur which cannot be accounted for by ordinary forgetfulness. [According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders] These criteria are very important, as it seperates Multiplicity in general from dissociative identity disorder. Dissociation is "loss of sense of self". For a disorder to exist, something must be going wrong with the natural functioning of the body. With natural multiplicity, the members of a [healthy] system are their own unique selves. Even if one member takes primary control of the body for a time, the other[s] do not lose their sense of self. Even if the members were to share control, they do not melt into each other, feel like one has suddenly become a different person, or feel like another person's thoughts are his own. Furthermore, most multiple systems do not meet the amnesia or loss of time criteria of the DSM manual. The dissociative identity disorder criteria hits at this crucial distinguishing point. There are those people who suffer from dissociative fugues [periods of temporary amnesia about themselves, wherein they often form new personalities in the interim until their memory returns], and depersonalization disorder/derealization [loss of self, feeling disconnected, not feeling in control of one's speech or movements, feeling detatched from one's thoughts or emotions, feeling like a robot, etc]. Both multiples and non-multiples may suffer from dissociative identity disorder. As with personality disorders, the criteria of Dissociative Identity Disorder also requires a significant impairment of mental and social functioning. In this area, they are similar.
What is disassociated personality?
Disassociated personality is not a recognized mental health term. It may be a misspelling of dissociative identity disorder (DID), which is a complex psychological condition where a person's identity is fragmented into distinct personality states. People with DID may experience memory gaps, amnesia, and a lack of connection to their thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is a disorders in which the sense of self has been separated from previous memories?
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a disorder in which an individual's personality becomes fragmented, resulting in two or more distinct identities or personality states. In DID, the sense of self is split off from previous memories, leading to gaps in memory and changes in behavior that are beyond the person's control.
What is the name given to a condition when one has a different personalities while asleep and has no knowledge of them while awake?
Paranoia. Given you are asleep and you have no knowledge of any sleep disorder while awake, you would never know if you had a disorder or not. There'd be no gaps in your memory and nobody else will witness your change in personality because you were asleep the entire time. Therefore you are paranoid. If you really did have a sleep disorder that involved a split personality that you have no memory of, the only way it could be diagnosed is if you woke up during an episode and were witnessed by a third party. You might try filming yourself while sleeping.
What are the key symptoms of dissociative identity disorder?
The main symptom of dissociative identity disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder, is the presence of two or more distinct personalities within one person. These personalities alternate control of the individual's behavior.
How does bipolar disorder affect memory?
It doesn't. Get lost!
If you lost your memory would you have lost your personality as well as your memories?
Losing your memory does not necessarily mean losing your personality. While memories may shape aspects of your personality, fundamental traits that define who you are can remain intact even with memory loss. Personality is a complex interplay of biological, psychological, and environmental factors that are not solely dependent on memory.
